Pastor of Woodstock Road Baptist Church (@WRBCOxford)
Joined June 2013
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Not sure that there's a more lovely or profound definition of a Christian than Rev 14:4.
"They follow the Lamb wherever he goes"
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βMy brethren, it is a hideous gift to possess, to be able to say nothing at extreme length.β -C. H. Spurgeon
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Ten things Christianity offers that world longs for⦠which Christians should hold onto more tightly and hold out more readily.
With devotional accompaniment from George Herbert.
(This started as a blog series, but in the delay, it may bless you as a devotional challenge)
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I have woken to the news of Wendell Berryβs passing. He was not a βtypeβ of whom he was the last, and there is no one who will slide into the space he leaves.
He is now an absent voice & we are poorer for it... though even while here, he would say, βWe are the absent ones.β
Was Paul in fact not a tentmaker but a stage builder/scenic carpenter in the theatre? Plausible and fascinating article by the excellent David Starling.
New Issue of New Testament Studies now available
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ALT New Issue of New Testament Studies
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Hereβs what I think: I think you shouldnβt do things that will predictably make you less virtuous (ie less good-powerful).
That means donβt use AI to write, donβt use a mobility scooter to walk.
Do your own stunts, in life. And train for them.
βMy attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.β
G.K. Chesterton
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
well the world is just a little brighter now @TheFrankSkinner is back talking about poetry.
Matthew Henry on Psalm 16:4
"Those who multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough."
CSB much better than NIV on John 19:31
It was the day of Preparation and:
NIV ...the next day was to be a special Sabbath
CSB: ...that Sabbath was a special day [footnote: lit. great]
Klink's commentary: "this truly was the great day"... not "Good Friday" but "Great Friday"
Spurgeon on Jesus' words "It is finished"
βWhat βitβ was it that was finished? It is the biggest βitβ that ever was. Turn it over and you will see that it will grow, and grow, and grow, and grow, till it fills the whole earth.β
Frederick Dale Bruner on Pilate's inscription - "King of the Jews" - in Aramaic, Latin and Greek:
"The cross is international the moment Jesus mounts it."
βFor the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.β Middlemarch
