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The Ultimate e-Sword Bible
I found quite possibly one of the most useful tools for studying the bible. It's a Septuigint (LXX) and a NA27 with Strong's (updated for 7.9.5+) and Wescott-Hort parsing info. Together the Strong's numbers and the Wescott-Hort parsing info gives you enough information to make up for not knowing Greek pretty well. If you know the different usages of a word, the tense of the verbs and whether they are singular or plural it gives you alot more than reading a single English version of the bible. When you are able to search for all the usages of words you have the ability to do some serious word study.
I think the LXX is a critical to understanding the Greek of the New Testament. It is the Old Testament that the authors of the New Testament read, and therefore shapes their usage of the Greek language significantly. It is important to recognize that the New Testiment is a Hebrew document that happens to be written in Greek. The Greek of the NT is the Greek of the LXX blended with the common or koine Greek of the day and NOT the Greek of Classical Greek literature, and their word usage therefore carries none of the metaphysical implications of the philosophers, but rather that of the Old Testament.
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Birmingham 21
My friend and fellow classmate Micah has been having many dreams moving him to call the youth of KC to fast 21 days ending on good Friday for the ending of abortion. Knowing him and knowing how the lord has been leading him, I know that this is a significant time period. I'm expecting a local breakthrough with national impact. So I'm using whatever small readership I have to give it a plug. For more details see his blog at http://birmingham21.wordpress.com/Wrong About Heaven
Of all places I expected a clear concise explanation of classic premillennial eschatology it was not Time magazine. Right now the most read article on time.com is an interview with a Anglican Bishop where he explains the typical view of heaven and contrasts it with the clear Biblical picture of a renewed earth and a bodily resurrection. An article like this can do more to correct the doctrine (or at least lessen the resistance to the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom) than a hundred books and a thousand sermons. Any way check out Christians Wrong About Heaven.The Star of Bethlehem
I think this guy got it right... He found the sign in the heavens that made the magi travel all those miles to Jerusalem seeking the newborn Jewish king. His argument is very persuasive and science impeccable. My roommate was given the movie DVD and it is very high quality. Anyway head over to http://thestarofbethlehemmovie.com/.An Overview of the Bridal Paradigm
The Bridal Paradigm, the picture of the church as the bride of Christ, is key to understanding our relationship with God. Throughout the scriptures, from Genesis to revelation, the bridal metaphor is one of God's primary pictures of how he relates to his people, yet for most of the church it is unfamiliar. In this sermon outline I will prove that the bridegroom/bride metaphor is key to our understanding of our relationship with Christ and explore the implications of the bridal paradigm. More...Arrived In Korea
I just arrived in Seoul, Korea a few hours ago. It is a bizarre juxtaposition of familiar and unfamiliar. I am staying near and helping out at a church in seungnam just feet from Seoul International School where I attended middle-school way back in 1992. Many of the older landmarks are intact, but the whole area is far more developed and modern. Korea still has pretty much the same feel, giant apartment complexes and tons of tiny little convenience stores and restaurants in every side street. I am really excited about what the lord will do in these conferences. I believe the Lord wants to restore the Korean church to a culture of prayer and fasting, as well as taking them to new heights of intimacy. The web sites for the conferences are forerunnerkorea.org and ihop24.org.My Experiances So Far
I have been having a great time so far in Korea. First and foremost I am blown away by the presence of the Lord in many of the conferences and seminars we are having. The IHOP message of intimacy and the love of God is very relevant to the church in Korea and the people coming to these meetings are so hungry. As usual Allen Hood and Daniel Lim have been doing an awesome job preaching, and Pablo Perez's worship has been so anointed. Every single person in the room is so incredibly engaged in worship, even thought it is mostly in English. Yesterday I had a really bizarre / fun experience at this coffee and ice cream shop in Kangnam. This shop sold really overpriced desserts ($5 each), but then had bread, jam, and brewed coffee for free. The really interesting thing was they had this thing they called Dr. Fish. Basically for $2 you got to put your feet in a fish tank, and these little fish would come and eat the dead skin off your feet. This of course tickles and is just in general a really strange sensation. Anyway very fun.
The Truth
In one of my classes today we talked about the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of truth, here is an excerpt from my journal. More...A Worm and not a Man
A meditation on Psalm 22. More...St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Ran across this quote from St. Bernard of Clairvaux in one of my FSM classes. He is talking about the depth of love that a beliver can come to: “Just as a little drop of water mixed with a lot of wine seems entirely to lose its own identity, while it takes on the taste of wine and its color; just as iron, heated and glowing, looks very much like fire…; and just as air flooded with the light of of the sun is transformed into the same splendor of light so that it appears not so much lighted up as to be light itself; so it will inevitably happen that in saints every human affection will then, in some ineffable manner, melt away from self and be entirely transfused into the will of God.” Amazing language, but how much more would amazing it be to experiance!