Monthly Archives: May 2008

Calculating God’s will

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 30, 2008
The following was published today in Mikey’s Funnies, a daily humor subscription email: CALCULATING GOD’S WILL By Michael A. Halleen “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12) John Cardinal Deardon once observed that “The designs of God are not able to [...]
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Dreaming an impossible dream

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 29, 2008
It turns out I was tagged by Doug with “the impossible dream” meme a couple of weeks ago and never knew it – that ought to tell you how far behind I got with my blog reading between crazy work and my wife being ill! Weary readers of this blog will know that the meme title [...]
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I remember…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 28, 2008
HT: Iyov, for the link to this article. As tedious as footnotes can be to read, they can be even more so to produce. For high school students and undergraduates, footnotes seem less a test of research skills or academic honesty than a trial of one’s endurance and equanimity. In the heyday of the typewriter, footnotes [...]
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Pruning the vine, vertigo and the powers of this dark world

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 28, 2008
Brian at συνεσταυρωμαι has written recently about the reality of spiritual warfare and the power of prayer to destroy the strongholds of the enemy. I had written earlier about the connection between our physical condition and the unseen war – the early comments to Brian’s first post underscore this thread of discussion. (Especially regarding the [...]
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What’s the most important verse for Bible translations?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: May 28, 2008
A recent post on TC’s blog recently struck me in a funny way and caused me to reflect a little on the criteria I used in my Bible search. In doing so, the title question of this post rolled out: What’s the most important verse for Bible translations? I don’t mean this question in terms of [...]
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