As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“because it’s so universally beautiful and utterly unnecessary, true beauty is always an apologetic for God. Here are 20 of my favorite quotes from DeWitt’s book.” - TGC
Psalm 145 is an acrostic psalm, that is, the author chose to construct the psalm using the literary device of following the order of the Hebrew alphabet from aleph to tav for each successive verse. Such acrostics are rather common in the Hebrew Bible, the most famous being Psalm 119, where each successive group of eight verses begins with the same Hebrew letter. Several other Psalms follow the acrostic pattern, as do four of five chapters in Lamentations, and the final 22 verses of Proverbs 31, in praise of the “virtuous woman.”
"According to most theories of cosmology, galaxies formed from small clouds of stars and dust that gradually increased in size. In the early universe, the story goes, matter came together slowly. But that doesn’t account for the massive size of the newly identified objects." - Smithsonian
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I have received the following objection to the Pre-Trib Rapture from a brother named Jerry Parks. Jerry is a good man who blogs here. He states his argument thus (I have brought together his main assertions from several comments etc.):
“The point of this post is not to talk about Asbury, but to talk about the Bible. While the Bible doesn’t use the word ‘revival,’ it does detail instances in the lives of God’s people where sudden and surprising change takes place.” - Kevin DeYoung
Read the series.
I’ve argued (Part 3) that the Bible is a coherent work of literature. But that’s obviously not true if it contradicts itself. You can find all kinds of collections of supposed biblical contradictions; there’s a well-designed site that lists 140 of them, and the Skeptics Annotated Bible identifies 496.
“Many disagreements in theological matters come from only holding to one of two complimentary theological truths.” - Feeding on Christ
“How, we may wonder, should we balance a sound reading of the Bible with more immediate application? The answer is found not so much in ‘balance’ as in considering the proper steps to application.” - Word by Word
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