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DL Moody Regarding Faith

November 14, 2021
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This morning the speaker at the church I was attending mentioned a quote by the great American evangelist from the late 1800s, DL Moody.  It expressed exactly what I’ve been trying to explain to a few people I know that claim to be weak in faith (though they WANT to believe).  I’ve told them that “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Romans 10:17).  In other words, you can’t just WISH for faith if you don’t want to read the very Word that imparts faith.  DL Moody said it much better that I could have ever said it. “I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would. . . .

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Hidden Manna or meat sacrificed to idols

November 4, 2021
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I was casually reading the 2nd chapter of Revelation regarding the letters to the angels of the seven churches. The angel of the church of Pergamum is told they will be given hidden manna to eat. (I wonder if that is the same thing David meant when he talked about “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies . . . Psalms 23:5) Okay, fine. Most Christians know that isn’t referring to the same manna that was in the wilderness. We take it to mean “spiritual food”. Especially if we know the words of Jesus who said He is the true manna from heaven. He. . . .

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Big shoes to fill

November 3, 2021
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My father was partial to a particular publication of the King James Bible, that is, The Oxford bible with chain references, published between approximately 1972 to 1997. He discovered that the references were more scholarly than some. Dad gave me that edition in my late teens.  I used it till my late forties.  (Then I used a second one he had given me as a spare). This Oxford edition is no longer in print so I search frequently on eBay and used book sellers to find copies. Then I had an epiphany—why not get my first one rebound? A big shout out to LegacyBibleRebinders.com. Not. . . .

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It was at the last hour, so to speak, while building the website to feature my father’s writing, that I decided to add my own blog. Yes, occasionally I get an insight into the scriptures that is worthy to mention. From Dad I learned a style of bible study that uses the entire bible, linking like phrases together, even if they don’t immediately appear to go together. (Thus the importance of a good chain reference feature). The results are quite rewarding. As St. Augustine is credited as saying: The new [Testament] is in the old concealed; the old [Testament] is in the new revealed.
To further expand on that thought, Dad was a firm believer that the bible does not ask a question that it does not answer somewhere else in the scriptures and that symbols and definitions hold true throughout the entire Bible. These ideas have greatly enhanced my understanding of the bible and theology.

Having said all that, I’ll say this: I hope I can do C. Leo Jordan proud.

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