A La Carte (11/11)

  • Tim Challies
  • 11/11/09
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Last Words
On the Texas Department of Justice website, you can read the last words of over 400 executed human beings. Morbid, perhaps, but an interesting look into what a person thinks as he looks death in the face.
The Guy Who Has Caught 3000 Balls
Here’s an amusing video of a guy who has caught 3,000 balls at major league baseball games.
The Poverty and Justice Bible
The deluge of Study Bibles shows no signs of letting up. The latest to store shelves is The Poverty and Justice Bible. Oh boy…
Elder’s Meetings that Do Something
Jim Elliff offers some useful advice for organizing and managing elder’s meetings.
Deal of the Day: The Old Testament Explained and Applied
Evangelical Press is offering a 50% discount on this big reference volume. “This comprehensive study enables the reader to gain a clear understanding of the contents of each Old Testament book in order that the overall plan and purpose of God might be perceived. The author explains each book, drawing out its Christology and applying its message to today’s reader. Numerous diagrams and maps are used throughout. His fresh innovative approach encourages the study of God’s Word in the Old Testament.”

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a comment from mark • 11/11 @ 12:15pm
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the problem with the “P & J” Bible is that people will tend to read the words “justice” and “peace” throughout as referring to temporal justice and peace. God’s justice and peace are warehoused, ajudicated and fully resolved in the courts of Heaven.

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a comment from Joe Watts • 11/11 @ 12:46pm

Rob Bell and Shane Clairborne are endorsing it. That says all I need to know.

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a comment from Aaron • 11/11 @ 5:00pm
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My concern is less with people reading and proof-texting like mad, because… well, they’re going to do that anyway. Just like how some take Jesus saying “little children” or “little ones of mine” to mean children (which they usually don’t) instead of his disciples (which they usually do). But I digress…

I guess my real concern is more with the people writing the study notes—if they actually did their homework, awesome. But if they just did a wordsearch and highlighted, then there’s a problem. We shall see, I suppose.

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a comment from Will • 11/14 @ 11:58am
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I’m not sure I sympathize with the “Oh boy…” tone here regarding the Poverty and Justice Bible. Tim, it almost sounds like you’re perpetuating the conservative evangelical mindset that poverty and justice are unimportant concerns for the Christian. Conservative Christians for too long have promoted a mindset that God’s plan is to rescue us out of this world, rather than to rescue us so that we can transform this world. Poverty and Justice are major themes in Scripture and major concerns in the mind of God.

That being said, I’m not vouching for this particular study Bible since I don’t know much about it. I’m just trying to understand what’s behind the “Oh boy…” comment.