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Reasons to Read: #1 Confirm What You’ve Been Thinking
2–3 minutesReading tonight has prompted me to start a series on my blog that I’ve wanted to start for some time, and that is a series on reasons for reading. Why read? What do we get out of it and what is the fruit of our labor from spending so much time as we do on harvesting the ripe books, letters, works, etc. we set to read? These posts will, of course, be in no special order, but will be added as reasons come to mind. #1 Confirm what you’ve already been thinking. Reading can confirm what you been thinking. Now,…
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Genesis 48
1–2 minutesThe Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness (2 Peter 3:9) In Genesis 48, Jacob is running on the last few fumes in his gas tank. I, personally, thought that when I would read this chapter, Jacob would come across as bitter, or upset, or disappointed. Why? Because God had made promises to his grandfather (Abram), and his father (Isaac), and to him, but those promises hadn’t yet come to fruition. But, instead of passing on his dying disappointment to his son (Joseph) and grandchildren (Ephraim and Manasseh), he passes on the promise of a…
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Stamm’ring Tongue
2–3 minutesNot until recently have two hymns come to my attention which address speech impediments. Yes, speech impediments. What are hymns doing that contain verses about lisping and stammering tongues? They are in hymns because they are common human traits that people both fear and loath. I, for one, hate stammering and false starts when it comes to talking. You begin saying what you want, hesitate or pause, and then begin to say the exact same thing over top of yourself. I reckon we just have so much we want to say that we get in a hurry and our brain…
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Non est religio ubi omnia patent
1–2 minutesIt’s not religion where all is revealed. I have Jonathan Edwards in Religious Affections to thank for this quote–though it’s more than likely has its origin centuries before him. I think I find it more readily applicable at the present time in a different context: mystery and God (as opposed to discerning which affections are truly “gracious”).