Monthly Archives: March 2008

Before you leave church on Sunday…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 21, 2008
As I attempt to recover from an onslaught of work, snow and continued sniping over written indiscretions, allow me to make a humble request for the coming weekend: If your Good Friday or Easter service includes music or other performing arts that touches you and heightens your perceptions in these days of remembrance, will you take [...]
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Blogroll update: Henry Neufeld

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 21, 2008
I don’t know how familiar people are with Henry Neufeld, which probably just shows my own ignorance, but I’ve been poking around his various sites recently and have added his “Participatory Bible Study Blog” and “Threads from Henry’s Web” blogs to my blogroll. In addition to being an advocate of the Revised English Bible, Henry [...]
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You say “Shibboleth”, I say “Sibboleth”…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 19, 2008
Wayne Leman has posted an excellent question on the Better Bibles Blog on whether we create shibboleths, or exclusive social groups, within Christianity or the church by which Bible translation we carry around with us: Maslow claimed that one of the most basic human needs is the desire to belong, to be part of a group. [...]
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Looking at life after Revelation 20

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 19, 2008
On the heels of Bryan’s recent post that Revelation 20 was John’s message of “hope, understanding, and calls for endurance” for the persecuted first-century Christians, rather than a thesis of millennialism, comes a new post from Steve at Undeception focused on the consummation of Christ’s reign and the reward of living in the Kingdom, not [...]
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Corporate or individual election in Romans 9

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 19, 2008
Jesus Saenz has a new post up regarding reading election in Romans 9 from a national or individual perspective. As one who was taught to read Paul from a corporate church perspective, it’s always challenging to look at the individual, but Jesus has put together a cogent argument for his position: God made a promise to [...]
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Any Typepad users out there?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 17, 2008
Through nefarious and negligent means, I’ve acquired a Typepad blogging account. I am planning to upgrade my web hosting plan later this summer to support database integration and was going to switch this blog, among others, to the full version of Wordpress. But now I might just use Typepad, since I’ve already paid for it and [...]
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One year of blogging…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 17, 2008
It was thereabouts one year ago this week that I kicked off this blog, or at least an early iteration of it on Blogger. Hard to believe. I thought about looking back at my posts and doing a major stats roundup, but suffice it to say that since moving to the Wordpress platform last April, [...]
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Wilhelm Furtwängler and the art of interpretation

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 17, 2008
Sean Winter has posted a brilliant clip of noted German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler giving a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in 1942 on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday: There is huge debate about this performance, and to watch it is to be disturbed, but it seems to me that Furtwängler is actually pressing the score to [...]
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Peter’s conditional prophecy of the Parousia

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 17, 2008
In his essay, “Hyper-Preterism and Unfolding Biblical Eschatology“, published as part of When Shall These Things Be? A Reformed Response to Hyper-Preterism (ed. Keith Mathison), Richard Pratt Jr. challenges the full preterist position that the prophetic time texts of the New Testament can only be read as they are stated and, as such, are an [...]
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Cool stuff you’ve been writing about…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: March 11, 2008
Work has been insanely busy the last couple of weeks, including evening hours and a few overnights, which explains the paucity of posts here recently. But while I haven’t had the chance to formulate more than a few scattered thoughts of my own, many of you have been posting some quality material to think about. [...]
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  • Words wither and blogs fade away…

    Forgive me if you’ve heard this song before, but I've decided to stop blogging at He is Sufficient. I truly appreciate all of the wit, wisdom and words of faith that you have shared with me over the past few years. I wish you well in all of your endeavors, whatever they may be and wherever they may lead you. “God is sufficient for the needs of His people”. Amen!