BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

Greg Mazak on James 5:14-15

Here's the ESV for James 5:14-15: 14 Is anyone among you sick (ἀσθενεῖ)? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick (κάμνοντα), and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. All the major English translations (24 that I checked, anyway) agree, translating ἀσθενεῖ and κάμνοντα with "sick" or "ill" (Tyndale's "defeated" in v. 14...

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Zechariah, Congressional Deadlock, and God’s Providence

I was reading in Zechariah last night in my single-column Books of the Bible, and I was struck by this statement from God about Jerusalem: This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Now hear these words, ‘Let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.’ This is also what the prophets said who were present when the foundation was laid for the house of the Lord Almighty. Before that time there were no wages for people or animals. People could not go about their business safely because of...

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Bible.Logos.Com

I've got to hand it to Logos. This is pretty cool. Search the Bible, read the Bible in paragraph format, check a lot of major versions. I'm awarding it some much-coveted space in my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar! It's very fast, though, making me think that Logos is not really behind this effort. It could be a front for BibleWorks.

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The Bitter Cup

I tried to track down the following classic quote from Spurgeon, and the best I could do was a reference deep in the recesses of the Internet to his sermon "Woe and Weal" on Micah 7:9. It would be a very sharp and trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my briars were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quality. Oh, that were bitterness indeed! But, on...

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Some Good Online Courses and Lectures

My father-in-law recently asked for some recommendations for online courses to pass on to a friend. I replied recommending Dr. Ken Casillas's Old Testament Theology course at BJ Seminary. It's available via correspondence. I was in that class, and it was fantastic. I told him that there are also many classes available in iTunes from places like Covenant Seminary and Reformed Theological Seminary. Here's what I wrote him: I did some searching just now, and here are a few courses I recommend:...

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