I’m not sure this is deep theology :), but theologians have fun, too. Bill Combs at Theologically Driven says, “Even Tim Tebow can’t do this.”
(For readers unfamiliar with American football, it doesn’t usually work like that….)
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More Wisdom from the Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.
Scripture
Jeremiah 29:11-13
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Tesco Again
Sainsbury’s had record sales over Christmas, with a 2.1% increase in like-for-like sales in the 14 weeks to 8 January compared to last year.
Morrison’s had an increase of 0.7%, slower than 3rd quarter growth but still ahead of last year.
Tesco had a 2.3% decrease in like-for-like sales compared to last year, despite spending heavily on their Big Price Drop campaign in an attempt to bring more shoppers in.
The financial bottom line can never be trusted to be an accurate measure of God’s blessing on an organisation. But it is hardly surprising that Tesco saw a drop in sales. The company has been so tone-deaf to the concerns of Christians that even the relatively mild-mannered Christian Institute started talking about a boycott. Our family is surely not the only one that decided Tesco was not the place to spend money.
We shouldn’t expect those who aren’t followers of Christ to behave like followers of Christ — but we can expect those who want us to spend money in their shops to treat our concerns with respect. Tesco does seem to be getting the message, as they announced just before Christmas that they won’t sponsor Gay Pride events in future. Perhaps they’ll have a better Christmas season next year.
Previous Tesco posts:
Wisdom from the Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Peter, I Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
His Word Will not Return Void — When Copies Differ (1)
“That Book in Your Hand”
Previous sermons on the nature of the Bible: 1) The inspiration of the Scriptures, their divine nature, from II Timothy 3:16. 2) The moving of the Spirit in giving us the Scriptures, from II Peter 1:19-21. 3) The inerrancy (complete reliability) of God’s Word.
As I’ve been writing on thoughts from / related to this fourth sermon on the preservation of the Scriptures, “God’s work in ensuring that the Book that He gave us came down to us,” we’ve covered both indirect and direct teaching of this doctrine in the Scripture. In the most recent post I looked at some of the ways that we see this preservation taking place as we look at the Scriptural record.
Near the end of that post, I asked this question: “if the most common means of preservation is copying, and God didn’t guarantee the accuracy of any particular copy, how has preservation worked so that the bad copies haven’t supplanted the good ones?” This is an especially important question because the Scriptures were written long before the printing press was invented, and so for many centuries copies were made by hand — and there were differences between copies. In this post, I’d like to look at one way, at least, that the Scriptures tell us of the Lord’s working.
Posted in Bibliology
Tagged attesting, Holy Spirit, indwelling, Inspiration, preservation, Scripture, teaching
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Feeling Buried by Troubles?
Just a thought:
Sometimes the Lord allows a second (or third) heartache to come into my life to prevent a bigger heartache from taking such a grip on my mind that it destroys me.
His Word Will not Return Void — Preservation in Action
“That Book in Your Hand”
Previous sermons on the nature of the Bible: 1) The inspiration of the Scriptures, their divine nature, from II Timothy 3:16. 2) The moving of the Spirit in giving us the Scriptures, from II Peter 1:19-21. 3) The inerrancy (complete reliability) of God’s Word.
Now, we are looking at the fourth sermon, “God’s work in ensuring that the Book that He gave us came down to us,” the preservation of the Scriptures. In my first post on preservation, we saw that preservation is strongly implied in the Scripture, and in the second, that it is directly taught. In this post, I’d like to look at some examples from Scripture of preservation taking place.
Posted in Bibliology
Tagged inscripturation, Inspiration, miracles, preservation, providence, Scripture
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