That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
What does Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” have to do with the ESV not being too difficult a translation for people to understand? Much in every way! Before I explain, let me invite you to enjoy Carroll’s foray into sniglets (words that don’t appear in the dictionary but should) and logatomes (made-up words that obey phonotactic …
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We love Ross King’s music at the Hamilton house. And we’ve recently started Latin at the Hamilton home-school. Imagine our delight, then, to find that Ross King is on a similar path, which has given him occasion to put John 1:1–7 to music in English and in Latin. You can find it here – it’s …
Through flame and flood, with plague and blood The gospel is proclaimed The Spirit flows, the church it grows The beast he is enraged Measuring rod and line outstretched The Father knows his own As martyrs die the saints will sigh And they cry out, How long? And then at last, the trumpet blast And …
We don’t see many movies, but we hit the dollar theater today for Legends of the Guardians. Here’s the trailer: We loved it! Mend the broken, make strong the weak, and vanquish evil! This is another story that owes its existence to the true story of the world, the one told in the Bible.
On the night in which he was betrayed, Judas sold Jesus for money. When they arrived to arrest Jesus, Peter tried to help in a way contrary to Jesus’ teaching (taking up the sword, when Jesus has been teaching he would go to Jerusalem to die). When he was arrested, all the disciples fled. These …
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Some have alleged that Satan is the real hero of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. For instance, William Blake held that Milton was “‘of the devil’s party,’ though ‘without knowing it’” and Percy Bysshe Shelley thought that Satan was “‘a moral being,’ one ‘far superior to [Milton’s] God as one who perseveres in some purpose …
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Here’s a preview of the dvd based on the book:
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I chortle in my joy These boys are indeed uber-cute: We loved The Monster in the Hollows and think you will too!
It was a lovely May morning under the arbor on our bricked back porch. We love family time. We love being out in the morning before the sun has climbed high and grown hot. And we love a good story. We had been waiting for this story for months. To our great delight it finally …
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“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” From Melville’s Moby Dick, Chapter ix – THE SERMON.
Consider the warning on hell’s gate in Inferno: “Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. Before me …
I saw this on Andrew Peterson’s twitter page, and even though I think I re-tweeted it I felt it warranted a post. At this link you can hear Flannery O’Connor read aloud her short story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” This is a tale worth pondering. I recommend you do the save as …
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Buy the book here. You really should. Check out this trailer for a new “Bookumentary”: Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl Movie Trailer from Gorilla Poet Productions on Vimeo. Go here to sign up for updates. HT: Doug Wilson
From the Academy of Sacred Music at SBTS: The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Orchestra, under the baton of Scott Bersaglia presents “Majesty” on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Alumni Chapel, 2825 Lexington Road, Louisville. Admission is free. “Majesty” features three works: Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Organ) for full orchestra …
You may need to click through to see the video. HT: Greg Sykes
Psalm 37:1–11, Outcomes Psalm 37:12–15, Violence Psalm 37:16–20, Provision Psalm 37:21–24, Giving Psalm 37:25–31, Provision Psalm 37:32–33, Violence Psalm 37:34–40, Outcomes —- David expresses faith that the wicked will be cut off and the righteous will be blessed and inherit the land.
John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, 201: “Sanity in a writer is merely this: However stupid he may be in his private life, he never cheats in writing. He never forgets that his audience is, at least ideally, as noble, generous, and tolerant as he is himself (or more …
John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, 192–93: “It is this quality of the novel, its built-in need to return and repeat, that forms the physical basis of the novel’s chief glory, its resonant close. . . . What rings and resounds at the end of a novel is not …
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John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, discussing “Common Errors” authors make: “Diction problems are usually symptomatic of defects in the character or education of the writer” (101). “Let us now turn to three faults far graver than mere clumsiness–not faults of technique but faults of soul: sentimentality, frigidity, and …