January 25th
This part of the confession was mentioned in a comment on a previous post, in connection with Dathenus's use of the same two texts in close connection with each other (Isaiah 64:6 and Luke 17:10)....
January 24th
"The second comparison, lit., like a garment of times , refers to the menstrual periods of a woman. Both these comparisons are intended to stress the character of sin as pollution and to point out...
January 23rd
Calvin on Isaiah 64:6 (from his commentary on Isaiah 33-66, p.369):
"Some commentators torture this passage, by alleging that the Prophet, when he speaks of the pollutions of sins, describes...
January 21st
So I've made it to page 76 of Michael Horton's latest book, Christless Christianity , and I must say that, apart from the regular overuse of the law/gospel dichotomy that I've come to expect from...
January 19th
In this age of disposability, what do you do when your four year-old laptop gets a seemingly un-removable virus? You spend less than half of what the laptop originally cost, and you get a desktop...
January 15th
I can hardly imagine what it must have been like to prepare two sermons a week without a computer.
I use BibleWorks software, which includes the Greek and Hebrew texts, and pretty much every...
January 13th
If you haven't read it, Pastor Wes Bredenhof has an excellent comment on Reformed missions here:
http://www.xanga.com/yinkahdinay/689185462/bait-and-switch.html
He quotes Paul Murphy,...
January 7th
You may have noticed that Nallely's blog has been made private, due to the proverbial "circumstances beyond our control". If you want to register to get access (it all sounds very exclusive,...
January 5th
Last month (last year, actually), I started a Yahoo! Group for supporters of the mission work in Prince George. A number of people have already joined and are receiving updates, so if you are...
Well, 2009 has arrived, and so far it feels much like 2008. Strange, that.
Nallely and I enjoyed a quiet New Year's Eve at home with the kids. Since I stay up until midnight most days anyway,...