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Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." (Is.30:21)
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Why Jesus? – David Nasser | Notes & Review
Part of a 2010 package curriculum by BluefishTV.com. Thanks to our customer service representative for the preview. DISC 1: What’s the Big Deal About Jesus? The graphics and production values are very high, and for that, I’m thankful. Mac Powell opens up with the statement, [We're going to]… cut through our own cultural clutter and […]
Why Learn The Biblical Languages – Professor Elizabeth Groves of Westminster Seminary
September 26, 2009
Your translations are “trustworthy.” But… Often, there is much richness in the original languages that forces a “choice” in the receptor language. With that choice comes a loss of meaning; we are missing something in the translation. Often there are things you simply cannot translate (such as structural grammar and poetry). You can also know […]
Life’s Solution | Notes & Review
September 26, 2009
Simon Conway Morris. Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe. Cambridge University Press, 2003. (464 pages) “Life’s Solution sets out to demonstrate that what we already know gives some strong indicators of what must be: even in this book pigs don’t fly. The central theme of this book depends on the realities of evolutionary […]
The Space Between | Notes & Review
September 26, 2009
Walt Mueller. The Space Between: A Parent’s Guide to Teenage Development. Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2009. (127 pages) To be normal during the adolescent period is by itself abnormal. – Anna Freud CHAPTER 1: PERSPECTIVE NEEDED Though feelings of confusion, frustration, and misunderstanding often characterize the relationship between parents and teens, it doesn’t have to be the […]
A Wonderful World in Abu Ghosh – Armstrong and Islam
September 10, 2009
My wife and I are visiting our friends in Israel (ישראל), and they live in a little suburb of Jerusalem (ירושלם) called Abu Ghosh (אבו גוש). Resonating outside the window right now is the Muslim call to prayer being sounded over the sound system of the local minaret, and at the same time is a […]
Exploring Exodus | Notes & Review
September 9, 2009
Nahum Sarna. Exploring Exodus: The Origins of Biblical Israel. Schocken Books, 1986, 1996. (277 pages). FOREWARD “It is a truism that knowledge usually lags far behind learning; it is also a fact that where knowledge fails, speculation often fills the void.” (xi) “…archaeology is hardly an exact science.” (xii) “The overriding aim of the biblical […]
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