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Re: Wildlife Photographer Finds ‘Croczilla,’ Largest Croc in the Florida Everglades

ScriptureZealot — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:47:32 -0000

I read the article a second time to see if I missed it. Maybe nobody measured it, but if it's the Largest Croc in the Florida Everglades, they must know something.

Re: My Biggest Surprise Yet In Reading The Puritans

ScriptureZealot — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:23:52 -0000

I noticed that Sibbes used a lot of natural reasoning (although I didn't know the term at the time) in The Soul's Conflict. Very interesting post.

Re: Check out

ScriptureZealot — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:39:53 -0000

I wish Horton would have addressed 2 Thess. 1:9, which is where we get the idea of separation from God.
Jeff

Re: Check out

ScriptureZealot — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 01:01:34 -0000

Yours and the one by Adam4d have been a couple of really great ones recently.

Re: Green Bay Packers: Time To Move On From Dom Capers

ScriptureZealot — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:39:56 -0000

He doesn't have a wife.

Re: New Fast-Acting Anti-Depressant Drugs on the Way

ScriptureZealot — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:30:39 -0000

Thank you so much for posting these.
Jeff

Re: Amazon Prime Instant Video goes down, and Twitter explodes

ScriptureZealot — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 23:23:33 -0000

Who's Jeff Bezous?

Re: A First Century Sermon, In Modern Expository Form

ScriptureZealot — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:42:39 -0000

Well Brian, I would like to discuss what you mean by "not against". Then we can move on to your next idea.

Re: The Anti-Celebrity

ScriptureZealot — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:23:47 -0000

You sound like Carl Trueman. But I've never seen him quote from people from long ago like you have. Very nice job. I think of Francis Chan who left his pastorate so as not to be a celebrity anymore.
Jeff

Re: Another New Year?

ScriptureZealot — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:08:54 -0000

I love your thinking on this. Sounds a lot like me.
Jeff

Re: The 2015 end-of-summer giveaway!

ScriptureZealot — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:27:20 -0000

Great selection of books.

Re: 57 Things to Keep in Evernote

ScriptureZealot — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:13:21 -0000

I do like Jon with the books. Also Scripture to memorize, Scripture to look into, my own concordance and subjects explained in books and commentaries.

Re: 57 Things to Keep in Evernote

ScriptureZealot — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:09:56 -0000

I bet there is some freeware out there for recipes, or even some online resources that would have features specifically for that and do more than just have notebooks and tags. The problem would be exporting/importing/transferring if you have a lot.

Re: 6 ways to get attention in the Christian blogosphere

ScriptureZealot — Wed, 20 May 2015 13:22:28 -0000

Create drama. People would eat that up. #6 is kind of in that category.

Re: How Blue the Sky Was

ScriptureZealot — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 13:50:25 -0000

Easy to miss: "the plague of manspreading, which insolent males perpetrate by sitting on subways with their legs apart."

Re: My Bible… My Idol?

ScriptureZealot — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:56:33 -0000

For the life of me I can't find it, but R.C. Sproul said at ShepCon that Scripture is basically equal to Jesus because he authored it and is the Word. I hope posts like yours can put the bibliolatry thing to rest. Most Christians haven't even read the whole thing. I don't think bibliolatry, if it exists, is much of a concern.

Re: A Child Wiser Than Most Adults

ScriptureZealot — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:13:45 -0000

Could you tell me where this was found? Thanks.

Re: Who’s The Blurred Out Preacher?

ScriptureZealot — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:00:07 -0000

Now I can see why you made it easy. I hope the book does well for you. Christians Get Depressed Too is a very helpful book.

Re: Who’s The Blurred Out Preacher?

ScriptureZealot — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:55:16 -0000

That was too easy.

Re: Modesty, #ChristianCleavage and me

ScriptureZealot — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:51:44 -0000

Excellent article. The only thing I'd quibble with is that I don't think God always works on the big things first. In fact, I'd say he often works on the smaller, easier things first and then gives us the bigger stuff. For me, swearing was one of the first things. I didn't swear a whole lot to begin with, and after a few slips of the tongue, I was done swearing. (I'd like to do a post on that but I'm reticent. I admire you for tackling this.) The fact that Christ needed to die because of my sinfulness came much later on. It was a little too big for me at the time. Just as an example from one person. But in any case your point of the fact that we need to allow for these things as people grow as Christians is still something we need to consider.

I haven't seen all of the hashtags, but I'm guessing that you're balancing it out with some grace. Your willingness to write about personal experience really makes it instructional in a way that women will listen to. Younger women need people like you.

I've always wondered why brides would dress immodestly...
Jeff

Re: Stop Trying to Read the Bible in a Year!

ScriptureZealot — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:23:49 -0000

Just what I was thinking. I would add that there are different types of reading. Joey is focused on what some would call 'devotional reading'. Reading through the Bible is more for familiarity. Studying is another. Exegesis is a deeper form of study. I like to do all of them, but not at the same time. When reading through the Bible, it's usually in 9-10 months or less. If I take too long, I forget what I read a few months ago already. Then I like to slow it way down, but read another chapter somewhere else to keep the familiarity up. I like reading through commentaries. I like the variety and all types are important. But I also made a commitment a few years ago, like Joey, to make sure to read the Bible every single day, which is the most important thing.

Re: Three things I’d like to see in the Christian blogosphere in 2015

ScriptureZealot — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 01:20:22 -0000

What I like to see is bloggers writing about what God is teaching them. It seems the higher up you go, the less you read of those things. I try to write about it quite a bit, but then I'm way down the line.

Re: Three things I’d like to see in the Christian blogosphere in 2015

ScriptureZealot — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:47:44 -0000

Regarding #2, I have some ideas, but that's a tough one. I think people criticize those outside of the church too much, expecting them to live as if they have the Holy Spirit, and leave the church be. People think you're being divisive. Sometimes I don't want to be 'that guy', the one who's going to be the one to offend my friends. I always do this with fear and trembling.

Re: A year of time-tested theology

ScriptureZealot — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 23:17:15 -0000

What about Pilgrim's Progress if you need something shorter in between? I recently learned that Spurgeon read it over 100 times. Edit: which is something you knew of course, if it's true.
Jeff

Re: 10 Reasons God Stops Us In Our Tracks

ScriptureZealot — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:58:18 -0000

Please don't look for a reason. It's often not for us to know. God will work out His plans for our growth, most of the time without telling us what He's doing. You will grow closer to him because of this, which is what He's after. Individual reasons are too lofty for us to figure out, and many times we can be wrong. In reading so many books and articles on suffering by Reformed authors, including many recommended by you, this is something I've learned from them, from experience in suffering from multiple chronic conditions and of course, Scripture.