Lex•i•con

A lexicon is simply another name for a dictionary. Both “lexicon” and “dictionary” came into English from Latin and both of them mean essentially the same thing. “Dictionary” was native…

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Leaves and Roots

I love to shop. I love pushing carts and carrying bags, no matter if I am shopping for shoes or groceries. I especially love it when my mom takes all…

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Evidence Not Seen | Part Five

Chapter Six As Darlene writes in this chapter, it can sometimes be easier to forgive wrongs done commited against us than than injustices done to those we love. The reality…

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Friday Findings—August 5

Your Work Never Goes Unseen “After changing hundreds of diapers, cleaning up the house at the end of each day only to have to repeat it again the next, working…

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John Newton…. Yet Speaking

  I. What think you of Christ? is the test, To try both your state and your scheme; You cannot be right in the rest, Unless you think rightly of…

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Un•jar•gon•ed—New Series

The language of Biblical Studies can be complex. Yet though words like lexicon and exegesis, synoptic and syntax may sound foreign at first, the realities they refer to are of…

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Infinite Gospel

For Christ-followers the gospel is everything. Without the incarnation, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth we are, as Paul said, of all men most miserable. Apart from…

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And I Quote… August 1

Once the gospel starts being presented primarily as that which brings such-and-such benefits, be they freedom from alcohol abuse or just emotional highs every once in a while, the distinctive…

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Evidence Not Seen | Part Four

  Chapter Four The men that the Japanese assigned to carry the missionaries' luggage were a very unsavory lot—without the boldness and courage of Darlene and Ruth both they and…

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