Nag, Nag, Nag

Don’t forget.

Recipe Round Up

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Pensieve’s Snackalicious Super Dishes

Together in one super-duper carnival of delicious food

Tomorrow, January 25

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Have you posted your recipe?

And why are you running off already? I’m not through yet.

Tomorrow (January 25) is also the second to the last chance to have your weather post linked. Yep, next Tuesday will be our last weather post and then (mercifully!) January is done. You might want to be working on a weather post, too, or before you know it, your chance for 15 minutes of weather fame will be over and you’ll have missed it. And it’ll be no one’s fault but your own.

What special use is there of the moral law to the regenerate?

Although they that are regenerate, and believe in Christ, be delivered from the moral law as a covenant of works,[1] so as thereby they are neither justified [2] nor condemned;[3] yet, besides the general uses thereof common to them with all men, it is of special use, to show them how much they are bound to Christ for his fulfilling it, and enduring the curse thereof in their stead, and for their good;[4] and thereby to provoke them to more thankfulness,[5] and to express the same in their greater care to conform themselves thereunto as the rule of their obedience.[6]

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Book Review: The Literary Study Bible, ESV

Leland Ryken and Philip Graham Ryken, General Editors

This Bible is different than any of the other Bibles you own. It is, to use the words of the editors, “a literary guide to the entire Bible,” using the English Standard Version. This means that the purpose of The Literary Study Bible is to explain the literary forms used by the biblical authors so the reader can get a better handle on what is being said.

I’ve been reading from this new study Bible and carrying it to church and Bible study with me since November, and I like it. (Except for the cover. The book jacket and the book cover look the same, and I prefer plain covers on my Bibles so I don’t look so much like I’m packing a children’s Bible.)

I’ve had a nagging feeling that I haven’t been paying enough attention to the literary features of the Bible. The Literary Study Bible has proven to be an excellent way for me to start giving literary form it’s rightful place in my Bible study. Here are some of the features in this Bible that make it useful for this purpose:

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