I’ve noted before that I think Eric Schumacher is one of the best poets at work on the craft in this generation. He writes to help the people of God praise the name of God, celebrating God’s saving mercy in Christ by the power of the Spirit. Eric writes of the new album from Reformed …
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Free PDF of Leningrad Codex
Download a PDF of the manuscript behind BHS for free here. I searched the database for “Leningrad Codex” and the results of the search are on this page. It’s great to have these manuscripts, of course, but they’re worthless if unread. May we live in the book. HT: Charles Halton
Andrew Peterson and the Extravagant Gamble
Many of us enjoyed Part 1 of Andrew Peterson’s thoughts on money, and Part 2 is just as good. Here’s a great quote. The Kingdom, God’s will done on earth, stabs into the wide blackness like a bright sword in the hands of missionaries, doctors, pastors, and Christians who die for love every day. And …
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Stephen P. Lawhead’s Byzantium
I bought Byzantium, a novel by Stephen R. Lawhead, when Justin Taylor blogged on it. I love to read fiction, but when I do, good plots tend to dominate my free time and steal some hours when I should be sleeping. Being robbed of shut-eye, however, pays me back with more vacuum capacity for sucking the …
Andrew Peterson’s On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
Do you want to read a thrilling novel about the conflict for the fate of the world between the Fangs of Dang (snake-men, seed of the serpent) and the seed of the woman (little children who have lost their father and have a strong, noble mother)? Let me commend to you Andrew Peterson’s On the …
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Andrew Peterson: In the Night My Hope Lives On
In his song, “In the Night My Hope Lives On,” Andrew Peterson has turned Romans 15:4 into poetry and put it to music that will stir the soul. It left me wiping my eyes from the pain of the beauty of hope. Romans 15:4, “For whatever was written in former days was written for our …
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Pretty Good Advice for Preachers, Too
Shakespeare presents Hamlet giving advice to a troupe of actors, and as I watched the fabulous reproduction of Hamlet pointed to recently by JT, it struck me that those who preach the word should heed this advice, too: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but …
The LORD Our Righteousness
“In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness’” (Jeremiah 23:6, ESV) The capitalized LORD renders the divine name, Yahweh, which in olden time was often rendered “Jehovah.” The word “righteousness” in Hebrew can be transliterated …
What Did the Temple Look Like?
Justin Taylor provides a nice article with great visuals from the ESV Study Bible.
Notes on Characterization from Brown’s Hope Amidst Ruin
So this is the final installment of my notes on how narrative literature works from Brown’s Hope Amidst Ruin. For more, you’ll have to read the book for yourself, which I don’t think you’ll regret doing. Here’s what he says about Characterization: “Characterization refers to how an author portrays the characters in his narrative” (108). “There …
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Notes on Point of View from Brown’s Hope Amidst Ruin
So yesterday I noted that this material from Brown’s Hope Amidst Ruin will help you read all kinds of narrative, and today I note that ambitious souls thinking about writing narrative would be helped by such thoughts as these on Point of View: Point of View: “Point of view refers to how a story is …
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Notes on Plot Composition from Brown’s Hope Amidst Ruin
So I’m posting the notes I took on how literature works from A. Philip Brown’s Hope Amidst Ruin, and it occurs to me that maybe I should note that attending to these features will help you read all kinds of narrative, not just biblical narrative. Maybe I didn’t need to say that, but there it …
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Piano Hymns
We are blessed at Kenwood Baptist Church to be led in worship by Josh Philpot, Associate Pastor extraordinaire. You’ll love his work on the piano. He writes: Here are twelve hymns I recorded on piano for my wife as a birthday gift in April (she really liked it!). I thought some of you may enjoy …
Coming This December: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
You may have to click through to the site to see the trailer. HT: JT
Andrew Peterson on His New Album: Counting Stars
HT: Robbie Sagers
Why Sentimentality Makes Bad Art
Joe Carter, writing at the First Things site, on the work of Thomas Kinkade: Sentimentality, as literary critic Alan Jacobs says in a recent interview with Mars Hill Journal, encourages us to “suspend judgment and reflection in order to indulge deliberately in emotion for its own sake.” Reflection reinforces and strengthens true emotions while exposing …
Douglas Wilson on Worldview and Preaching
Douglas Wilson makes an offhand comment that is worth further thought regarding: what makes up a worldview in the first place (dogma, narrative, symbol, and liturgy), Narrative–biblical theology; Dogma–systematic theology and catechesis; Symbol–art, architecture, etc; Liturgy–the expression of dogma, narrative, and symbol in worship. More to think on here. In the previous post, Wilson prescribes …
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N. D. Wilson on Writing
Prediction: N. D. Wilson’s Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl is this generation’s Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis) and the one before that’s Orthodoxy (G. K. Chesterton). Only those books may not deserve to be classed with this one. It’s that good. So do I think you should get it and read it? Definitely. Here’s a trailer …
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
The Gods of the Copybook Headings is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Denny Burk has put it to music and sings it beautifully. Dear Denny, please consider this post a formal request to get a recording of your musical setting of the poem online so I can link it up! Here’s the text of Kipling’s …
Never Been to Rome?
That doesn’t mean you can’t check out the Sistine Chapel. Scroll around. Click and drag yourself around the room. Enjoy! HT: Joseph Bottom