Round the Sphere Again: Scripture

Internal Unity
Tim Challies pinned this infographic on Pinterest. I like it; I wish I had a use for it—other than just looking at it, that is. Maybe you have a use for it.

Not Necessarily Prescriptive
Kim Shay makes a very important point about how not to interpret the book of Acts. (The Upward Call).

Not everything in a narrative is normative. Our task is, of course, to discern which is and which is not. The unique situation with Acts is that everyone wants to think it’s normative. 

All or Nothing
From Sarah Flashing at The Center for Women of Faith in Culture:

When the Bible is viewed as a collection of writings–some inspired and some not–filled with erroneous sayings and irrelevant principles for living, it becomes more of a tangled mess rather than a beautifully woven pattern of God’s orderly self-disclosure. … At this point, it seems there’s no point in pursuing God within the pages of scripture.

Read all of Scripture, Truth and Trust.

A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

74. Q. For whom did Christ obey and suffer?
       A. Christ obeyed and suffered for those whom the Father had given him.

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Round the Sphere Again: Three Ways to Serve God

• Give a greeting and smile. You never know how God might use it (Writing and Living).
  
  
• Take a meal to someone who needs it. Judy at Mennonite Girls Can Cook has some menu suggestions. 
  
  
• Give a gift to support Monergism.com, a website providing excellent online resources for Christians, and a site I use regularly as I put together my Thelogical Term of the Week posts. From John Hendryx:

  The Lord has been gracious to us through you for more than 12 years of ministry at Monergism.com. Thanks you for all your continued prayers and financial support.

  As most of you already know the Lord provided the funding necessary in 2011 to initiate phase II of the website development of Monergism.com. We thank the Lord for the generous donations of our friends and visitors to the site to make that possible. The work is already well underway to make all the 66 books of Scripture much more accessible.  We are eager to share with you the finished product which, Lord willing, will be done in two or three months time.  
  
  Understandably the economy has made donations difficult for many of you.  This is evident since we have fallen into the red in our normal fund raising budget by about $14,000 so far this year.  We need these funds to continue making Monergism.com an even better resource for visitors worldwide. 

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