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Monthly Archives: August 2011
A Prison Of The Mind: A Musing On Education
How hard is it to tell a story? I do not mean reading out of a book, or reciting back what one has heard from their teacher, in poll parrot fashion, but coming up with an original story. It depends … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Church of God, History, Musings
Tagged cogwa, education, Legacy Institute, literature, politics, prison, Thailand
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I Waited On The Lord My God
I am not hesitant at all to complain about hymns that I find somewhat lacking in scriptural depth [1], and it is not often that I am surprised by finding a new (to me) hymn of transcendent beauty from a … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Biblical History, Christianity, Church of God, Music History, Musings, Psalms
Tagged Legacy Institute, song analysis
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I, Tertius, Wrote This Epistle: A Musing On The Language Of The Renewed Covenant Texts
Who is Tertius, and why does he matter? For students of the Bible interested in very obscure facts, Tertius is the scribe who wrote Romans for Paul. He shows up in Romans 16:22, which reads: “I, Tertius, who wrote this … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Biblical History, Christianity, Church of God, History
Tagged foreign languages, Greece, textual criticism, writing
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On The Ten Commandments
[Note: Today I am going to share with you all a slight adaptation of one of my lectures for my History of the Old Testament class, and I hope that it may be instructive for all of you as well:] … Continue reading
On The Appeal Of Gnosticism
No one ever says that they are gnostic. Nonetheless, gnosticism has been a problem largely from the beginning of Christianity and has remained a problem throughout, largely because gnosticism is Satan’s classic tool for combating the (difficult) truths of Christianity. … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church of God, Musings, Satan's House Divided
Tagged gnosticism, law, rebellion
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On The Implications Of Causality In Mental Trauma
Today I would like to discuss a matter of great importance regarding the brain, and give a modest proposal about how this matter could be understood in a scientific manner. I give warning at the outset that this entry is … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Musings
Tagged bio-psychodynamics, psychology, research, science
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The African Union And The Arab League
The recent apparent flight of Gaddafi from Tripoli, though not the end of the conflict between the rebel forces and his regime, signifies a new stage where the rebel forces will not have to transition into a functioning government in … Continue reading
Posted in International Relations, Middle East, Somaliland
Tagged African Union, Islam, Libya, prophecy, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria
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Book Review: Another Chance
Another Chance: Hope And Health For The Alcoholic Family, by Sharon Wegscheider Cruse Warning: This book does not make for pleasant reading. If you come from a family where alcoholism and other types of abuse have run rampant for generations … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged alcoholism, book review, co-dependency, family, psychology
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