As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“It is most certainly appropriate for the elders of the church to serve communion to members who are, for health or other reasons, unable to attend the gathering of God’s people on the Lord’s Day.”
Why some tunes are better than others … Video at TGC
“Three entities of the Southern Baptist Convention have joined other religious organizations in urging the Seventh Circuit Court to reverse the ruling of [a Wisconsin judge], who said the allowance violates the First Amendment’s prohibition of government establishment of religion.” BPress
Reprinted with permission from As I See It, which is available free by writing to the editor at dkutilek@juno.com. Read the series so far.
An interesting Greek inscription discovered in Jerusalem is reported by Meyers:
Theodotus, son of Vettenos, the priest and archisynagogos, son of a[n] archisynagogos and grandson of a[n] archisynagogos, who built the synagogue for purposes of reciting the Law and studying the commandments, and as a hotel with chambers and water installations to provide for the needs of itinerants from abroad, which his fathers, the leaders and Simonides founded.1
This inscription, besides mentioning three successive generations of “rulers of the synagogue” in one family (on which title, see below), it also addresses two of the three major purposes for the synagogue’s existence: reading the Law and studying the commandments. Only prayer of major synagogal public activities is not mentioned. Hospitality shown to travelers was considered worthy of note as well (following Abraham’s example in Genesis 18?).2
“Are the medium and the message really so detached that, no matter how an idea is packaged or presented, its meaning remains the same?” Hipster Christianity, revisited
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