Monthly Archives: June 2008

The forbidden fruit of translation

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 17, 2008
As seems to be the case more often than not these days, Iyov and John Hobbins are engaged in another vigorous war of words. Having moved beyond past disputes about the ESV and gender language, Iyov has now called John on the floor for questioning whether the Psalms can be more faithfully translated into English [...]
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What did he pray for that I should owe him anything?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 13, 2008
HT: Mikey’s Funnies A ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert-like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was [...]
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Anyone familiar with the Epworth commentaries?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 11, 2008
I’m frequently asked what resources are available for the Revised English Bible, especially if it’s available electronically (sadly, as far as I know, it is only available as an optional module for the Mac-only Accordance Bible software program; none of the Windows software titles appear to support it). However, thanks to Andrew Dunning, my attention was [...]
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The NEB: awakening deafened and dulled ears

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 11, 2008
Note: for much of this post, I am greatly summarizing the material previously published by Geoffrey Hunt (About the New English Bible) and Roger Coleman (New Light and Truth: The Making of the Revised English Bible), which I’ve had the pleasure of reading in their entirety and recommend to any with a passing interest in [...]
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Engaging, not conforming

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 10, 2008
On Sunday, we drank in a passionate sermon by one of our community directors (and youth pastor at my former church), Micah Witham, on the Church and postmodern culture. Sermon links: MP3 | Windows Media Using the examples of Paul presenting to different audiences in Acts 13 (Jews) and 17 (Greeks) and working from 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, [...]
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Luke slips in predestination…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 8, 2008
I was continuing to read in Acts 13 after the sermon in church today and found this little verse slipped in by Dr. Luke: When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed. (Acts 13:48, TNIV) Can anyone comment on the Greek [...]
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Pardon the dust…

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 6, 2008
Well, we’ll try this out for a while and see how it goes. The theme is Vertigo Red by Brian Gardner, with some relatively minor page structure and CSS customizations by yours truly. A few things from the old site have been temporarily dropped, most noticeably the contact form, but I’ll be adding that back in along [...]
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Surprised by Heaven?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 5, 2008
I’ve gone and done something rather uncharacteristic for me: walked into a bookstore and purchased something from the Christian section. In this case, it is N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church“. I’ve seen mention of the author many times in various blogs, but have never investigated further. [...]
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TNIV on the ECC website

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 4, 2008
I was following a blog stat link (am I obsessed?) and ended up at the home page of the Evangelical Covenant Church, which is the organizing body of the local church that my wife and I were members of up until about a year ago. Anyway, I thought the TNIV users among us would be interested [...]
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The chaos of fear and trembling

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 4, 2008
I’m trying to wrap up my much-prolonged reading of Harold Best’s Unceasing Worship, however I seem to keep getting distracted by other projects and books. That said, a passage in his chapter, “What creative people can learn from God’s creation”, struck me yesterday. Best is discussing the contrast between our rational need for order, symmetry, harmony [...]
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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!