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Lecher or lover: how do you live the Bible?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: April 10, 2009
With a huge HT to Rick at This Lamp, I’ve been reading Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading and have found it captivating, at least the early chapters that I’ve been through. With the title taken from John’s experience of eating the scroll in Revelation 10, Peterson’s essential premise [...]
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Easter: what did Satan intend?

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: April 9, 2009
Peter Kirk has written an eloquent Easter sermon on the meaning of the resurrection of Jesus, captured with three “V”s: validation, victory and vision. In the second section, Victory, he writes: Throughout Jesus’ time on earth he was attacked by evil, in demonic and human form. Eventually the devil thought that he won the victory, by [...]
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Signs of the sufficiency of Shaddai

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: October 16, 2008
HT: Suzanne In 1990, Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) summarized an interpretation of the meaning of El Shaddai by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204), popularly known as Maimonides: [Maimonides] explains El Shaddai in terms of “the God for whom it is sufficient (shaddai lo): the God who is sufficient in Himself, whose essence is Himself, not in functions [...]
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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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Be filled with the Spirit

By ElShaddai Edwards | Published: June 2, 2008
Yesterday morning was an amazing experience of extremes. I woke up late (which I hate to do) and the boys were extraordinarily rambunctious, which I didn’t deal with very well. My wife left the house early to attend the 9:00 service before serving in the toddlers’ Sunday school room at 10:30. In her absence, the [...]
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