Archive for October, 2008
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Friday, October 31st, 2008I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but it is not near; a Star shall come from Jacob and a Scepter shall arise from Israel, and shall crush the corners of Moab and the head of all the sons of Sheth; and Edom shall be a possession and Seir, his enemies, [...]
Book Review: Fathers & Sons: Hold Fast in a Broken World, by Douglas Bond
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Synopsis: In twenty-first century America, young men are in more need than ever of mature, godly wisdom and counsel to instruct them as they set out on their daunting task of living as genuine Christians in a deceptive and ungodly world. But unfortunately, when young men are in the direst straits, it seems as if [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 10)
Monday, October 27th, 2008The Springs of Elim, which the companions had stumbled upon in so timely a fashion, was the common designation for a very ancient and historically significant location, which had been lost to the world of mankind for so many generations that most men had begun to relegate it to the realms of fabled legend and [...]
Images of the Savior (40 — The Serpent in the Wilderness)
Friday, October 24th, 2008And the people came unto Moses and said, “We have sinned in that we have spoken against Yahweh and against you; pray to Yahweh that he might take the serpents away from us”; and Moses prayed for the people. And Yahweh said unto Moses, “Make for yourself a serpent, and place it upon an ensign-pole, [...]
Book Review: Recovering the Reformed Confession, by R. Scott Clark
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Synopsis: By all appearances, Reformed Christianity is in a heyday of growth and fervor; but how well-rooted in the historic Reformation, with its prolific confessions and deliberate piety, is the modern Reformed resurgence among younger Evangelicals? R. Scott Clark would argue that it has more to do with bare predestinarianism than with the full-orbed Reformed [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 9)
Monday, October 20th, 2008Among all those peoples who live near the borders of the great Desert of Salt, certain tales are frequently to be met with, coming usually from the garrulous old men who consider themselves formerly to have been intrepid adventurers, of a phenomenon so terrifying and destructive that very few who have encountered it have ever [...]
Images of the Savior (39 — The Red Heifer)
Friday, October 17th, 2008And Yahweh spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, ‘Speak unto the children of Israel, that they should bring to you a red heifer, perfect, in which there is no blemish, upon which a yoke has never come; and you shall give her [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 8)
Monday, October 13th, 2008Later that night, as the men were finishing up with the packing of the copiacorns, Mishael left the center of the camp, sat down on the grass, which was already wet with the dew, and looked up into the heavens. He had never really appreciated the stars when he lived in Fair Semblances. For one [...]
Images of the Savior (38 — Korah’s Rebellion)
Friday, October 10th, 2008And it came to pass, when he had finished speaking all these words, that the ground which was beneath them was cloven, and the earth opened up its mouth and swallowed them and their households and all the men who were Korah’s and all their possessions. And they and all that was theirs went down [...]
Fair Semblances: An Allegorical Fantasy (Chapter 7)
Monday, October 6th, 2008There was a breathless and very somber silence when Lebbaeus finished his brief history. Mishael’s head was all in a whirl, and he was going back and forth between disbelief that the place he had known and loved all his life could really be so evil, and a very thankful wonder that, if it really [...]
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