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It’s Not Poetry - The Sola Panel blog (think Matthias Media) has an interesting article about the early chapters of Genesis. “When it comes to standard Hebrew poetic forms--especially parallelism, 'non-standard' vocabulary and 'unusual' verb patterning--these are also absent from the text (with the exception of 1:27). As my old Ancient Near East history lecturer once put it, anyone reading the text would fail a first-year Hebrew exam if they called Genesis 1 a type of Hebrew poetry.”
Free @ ChristianAudio - ChristianAudio has released their free audio book for the month of May (free for the download, no strings attached). Personally I just can’t tolerate the author, but he’s my wife’s favorite.
Best Facial Hair of the Civil War - I guess the link says it all (it’s a link to Smithsonian). Those guys sure knew how to rock the facial hair, didn’t they?
Christ Is Praying - Erik has just a couple of powerful quotes on Christ’s intercession for us. "If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.”
Sunday Morning Fight - Though written specifically for pastors, this article is relevant to all of us. Brian Croft answers this question: “What if I have a conflict with my spouse Sunday morning before church?”
Banning Laptops - I posted an article by Douglas Groothuis in Saturday’s A La Carte. Here’s another one on the same topic. This stuff is worth thinking about.
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Comments (8)
Great to see that the ideas of your book will be getting such widespread distribution.
Just beware Tim that Matthias Media have at their roots Sydney Anglicanism and as such probably do not follow a 6 literal 24hr day creationism (YEC). I pass no comment whether this is good nor bad, only that North American Evangelicalism is steeped in literal YEC and Sydney Anglicanism isn’t.
For those of us unable to accept a literal Genesis - do you think it is better to believe it as poetry/metaphor (at the ridicule of those like Newling) or to reject it altogether? Or is there some other alternative?
Re: Civil War facial hair. R.E. Lee’s close-cropped white was the classiest.
Tim, downloaded your book last night from ChristianAudio.
RE: laptops in classrooms. I have been so tempted to take my laptop to church to take notes, and I do take it to the more informal mid-week service. My thought on this: we need to treat God’s Word and the preaching of it as important—something with which to interact, not something to allow to wash over us and then fade away into the mundane cares of life.My hope was that taking notes on my laptop would help this. But I fear it may not be so: my notes contain good insights from our pastor, but I have yet to go back and read them, and because I know they are safely stored in digital media, I do not retain the points in my own mind. Therefore, they are doing me no good.
Sunday Morning FightI didn’t read the article, but my only question to Brian is,”What is it about “Yes, dear” that you don’t understand”?
Laptops? Aren’t we past that by now? I’m thinking of plopping down some money on an HTC Flyer tablet precisely for the notetaking capabilities with the stylus and the evernote integration with the audio recording. Wonder if he would ban tablets as well. Seems like it’s a high probability he would.
“A Praying Life” by Paul Miller is a free Kindle download right now.