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01/30/2011 10:03
Vital spark of heav'nly flame,
Quit, oh, quit, this mortal frame!
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life!
Hark! they whisper; Angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away.
What is this absorbs...
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01/30/2011 09:47
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheeked peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples,...
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01/30/2011 09:32
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From clouds, reflections of the dying sun
Glide...
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01/29/2011 09:29
Before getting into Acts 9, a review of this important transitional point in the history of redemption (which is the history of creation) is in order. Many Christians (most?) have collected biblical data throughout their lives in a rather haphazard manner. We learn a fact, a story, a principle, a...
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01/23/2011 09:23
Stephen has been stoned. Immediately (“there arose on that day…” 8:1) a persecution commences on the church in Jerusalem. I would suppose that a surface-level look at this passage would put in mind that Caiaphas and his cronies, having been irritated first by Peter and the apostles, now with the...
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01/17/2011 14:12
Dissertation - Caren Silvester.docx (191,6 kB)
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01/08/2011 09:35
The contrast is made clear as Stephen draws his defense to a close. It is not he, as the false witnesses have sworn, who has spoken against the Moses and God (the Law and the temple), but rather the Jewish rulers—Israel itself—that have broken the Law and denied God. Stephen told them that they...
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12/16/2010 10:01
Acts 6 begins by presenting a functional problem that arose in the Jerusalem church. Hellenist widows were being overlooked in the distribution of food. Hellenists are those Jews in Jerusalem who spoke Greek. They spoke Greek because (most likely) they had lived outside Palestine and at some...
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12/08/2010 10:34
The account of Ananias and Sapphira has an Old Testament feel to it. We read stories matter-of-factly in the OT of men coming through a fiery furnace unharmed or walls of water lining the path of Moses and the Israelites as they came through the Red Sea. But were we confronted with a superhuman...
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12/01/2010 09:35
The difference in Peter between his cowering in Caiaphas’ courtyard during Jesus’ trial and speaking out boldly to Annas and Caiaphas during his own trial was that in the latter instance he was filled with the Spirit (Acts 4:8). But what exactly does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? Luke uses...
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