Barring my faulty memory (and if I’m not lazy) I want to post prayers on Monday from all over Church History and then throughout the modern day, and then my own. This one isn’t so much a prayer as a call to action written in 1862 by then abolitionist and later pacifist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe. But it does make a nice prayer.
No comments on this just now, just the article and a link to Mohler.
James was found riding his bike every other Saturday.
Allow me a moment to apply a term to this sentence that isn’t normally used: story*. You understand that the sentence is attributing an action (riding his bike) to a specific person (James) within a certain time frame (every other Saturday)—but this doesn’t have to be a beginning or an ending.
It remains as a self-contained Happening in James’ world. It’s believable to enter into that world. There’s no logical contradictions encountered. It just exists.
From here, you can walk away from this story and remain happy. The story stands on its own.
Barring my faulty memory (and if I’m not lazy) I want to post prayers on Monday from all over Church History and then throughout the modern day, and then my own. In 2 Chronicles 33:10-13 Manasseh, captured by the Assyrians, repents before God and prays. Scripture doesn’t record the prayer but someone (likely a Christian) decided to insert a prayer that they thought would be nice to include. As such, it was quickly used in parts of the Church that had access to the Greek text. Here is the prayer of pseudo-Manasseh.
On the third post on Doctrine for Everybody, we noted that the revelation of God operates in certain spheres and modes within those spheres. We saw that God has spoken explicitly is in the Person of His Son, the Prophets, the Apostles, and finally recorded in Scripture.
But what Scripture? There are plenty of holy books: the Qu’Ran, the Book of Mormon, The Vedas, the writings of Guru Granth Sahib, the extra books dubbed canonical by The Roman Catholic Church and the general consensus of the Eastern Orthodox Church. After all—say some as if proving a point—it’s not like God ever said that these books are not Scripture!