I have started a new blog called St. Pete’s Blog. It won’t change what I am doing here at Beauty of the Bible, but it’s my outlet for comedy relief.
I tend to obsess over Bible verses, and it might take me a month to finish a post about this or that verse (or, a year [...]
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I want to credit our church for fashioning ministries around the members rather than trying to fashion the members around the ministries.
For example, our church has started a prophetic art ministry and a writers’ circle. These ministries developed around members who were interested in these artistic media. And when the church goes out and meets [...]
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A la Barbara Walters, tc robinson at New Leaven has published his Top Ten Most Fascinating Bloggers…, and yours truly comes in a strong third on the list (my arm is now sore from patting myself on the back).
I would like to thank tc for his highly evolved fascinations.
I would also like to thank WordPress [...]
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Our pastor has been preaching a sermon series on what the kingdom of heaven is like, using as his text, inter alia, the parables in the book of Matthew. At the end of one of his sermons, he asked us to write our own parable using our occupations, capacities as parents, or grandparents, etc. [...]
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Today is Beauty of the Bible’s one-year anniversary (or as my good friend Robert Jimenez from Inquiring Minds calls it, bloggiversary).
It has been a fun and exciting year. I hope and pray that 2009 is as great as 2008 and better.
Here is a quick summary of year one (as of today):
Original Address: beautyofthebible.blogspot.com.
Move from [...]
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I just recently acquired an Oxford University Press Scofield Study Bible (KJV). It is black bonded leather with the 1917 notes. It’s really quite lovely.
I don’t want to get into a whole debate about dispensationalist theology - I’ll leave that to others - suffice it to say, I am not a dispensationalist, although [...]
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I want to thank InterVarsity Press for the courtesy copy of Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian by Gary A. Haugen for review.
Book Details:
Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian
Gary A. Haugen
InterVarsity Press (June 2008)
ISBN 978-0-8308-3494-5
I think every Christian at one time or another is forced to ask, “Shouldn’t there [...]
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