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i am probably overthinking this: March 2011

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. I think Jameson's latest on his reading through the Old Testament. Gets a lot of things exactly right, and once again I don't think the interaction I'd like to do with it would fit in a comment, so I'll pull some quotes over here and try to share some thoughts and (I hope) fruitful ways to deal with some of the questions he raises. I can only heartily second this sentiment - especially in light of, say, Nehemiah 8. The theme of land and the purity the...

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i am probably overthinking this: August 2010

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. Wedding gifts still trickle in, though it's down to a drop every few weeks or so now. Homesickness, our first shared Nostalgie. When I found it in the La-Z-Boy in our study, Anna hugged me. Now the mountain of IKEA boxes reminds us that we are a little closer to being sharers of a single domestic life, complete with things to sit on. I just want somebody to be my pam beesly. Land of the free. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The n...

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i am probably overthinking this: death, destruction and love

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. Death, destruction and love. For purposes of space, I want to interact here with Jameson on his latest post charting his reading through the Bible. It seems to me that he's assumed, more than anything, the mantle of arbiter of morality. What does he mean by "experiencing the text firsthand, before making. a judgment" on why one should bother? That doesn't make this easy to work out. It doesn't make it easy to stomach the thought of wholesale slaug...

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i am probably overthinking this: the possibility of first principles

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. The possibility of first principles. More thoughtful thoughts from Jameson. This time explaining some of the basics of what he's working through politically. I don't love politics, but I think he's a little too pessimistic on some points. Am I being true to my faith, and trying to build a consistent Christian worldview? Or am I simply picking and choosing what I want to believe? I suppose Jameson may be interacting with Van Til's language here, but I ...

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i am probably overthinking this: May 2011

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. From the presence of the Lord. I'm trying to make it a summer goal to read through as much of the Pentateuch in Hebrew as I can. Who knows how far I'll get, but the exercise is, I think, spiritually valuable as well as good practice for this fall (when I'll start Old Testament Historical Traditions at school. There's something about the very difficulty of reading in a foreign language - you have. Of his brother (v. 9). Elements of the curse in...I won...

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i am probably overthinking this: from the presence of the Lord

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. From the presence of the Lord. I'm trying to make it a summer goal to read through as much of the Pentateuch in Hebrew as I can. Who knows how far I'll get, but the exercise is, I think, spiritually valuable as well as good practice for this fall (when I'll start Old Testament Historical Traditions at school. There's something about the very difficulty of reading in a foreign language - you have. Of his brother (v. 9). Elements of the curse in...I won...

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i am probably overthinking this: broken words

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. I think Jameson's latest on his reading through the Old Testament. Gets a lot of things exactly right, and once again I don't think the interaction I'd like to do with it would fit in a comment, so I'll pull some quotes over here and try to share some thoughts and (I hope) fruitful ways to deal with some of the questions he raises. I can only heartily second this sentiment - especially in light of, say, Nehemiah 8. The theme of land and the purity the...

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i am probably overthinking this: April 2011

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. A true easter thing about me. When I was a youngster, I distinctly remember never liking Easter very much, chocolate and hard-boiled eggs notwithstanding. As I've come to adulthood, I realize that this was most likely a result of an allergy to lilies. Labels: fun fact of the day. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Other things to see. Josh and Amy's blog. Mike and Erin's blog. The future that never was. Kierkegaard or dick van patten.

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i am probably overthinking this: the Word and the word

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I am probably overthinking this. This is me blogging. The Word and the word. Having laid out the agenda thus far, I want to try to move from Jesus the Word of God toward developing my understanding of Scripture as the word of God - the whole of it, unified, with all its parts interdependent and all normative for our understanding of God's character and works ( whether or not. They are all normative in the same way). Of these events. "Jesus was crucified" is more or less a raw historical fact. "Je...Truth...