Selected Reading

I read (or watched or heard) these recently and recommend them to you.

Atonement

No Holy Spirit, No Penal Sustitutionary Atonement
What was the Holy Spirit’s role in a penal substitutionary atonement? 

Christian History

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim and Her Christian Plays
There are so many fascinating women in Christian history. This one wrote plays—plays that sound just a little weird to me. What do you think?

Writing

Let’s Talk About Plagiarism
If you do any writing at all, you should read this. Best tip?

Always revise. Any author carefully going over every sentence in their piece—seeking for ways to improve diction, sentence structure, clarity, and flow—is unlikely to have chunks of others’ work remaining in it.

Mystery

Death at the South Pole: The Mystery of Antartica’s Unsolved Poisoning Case
Accident? Suicide? Murder? No one know for sure—except the murderer, I guess, and that’s only if it was a murder.

Food

Slow Cooker Whole Chicken
I’m probably late to the party, but I didn’t know it was possible to cook a whole chicken in the slow cooker and have it turn out like a real roast chicken. I’ve used this recipe twice now, and I was pleased with the results both times. The best part is all the chicken drippings left in the bottom of the pot to use for to gravy.

Sunday's Hymn: Tell Me the Old, Old Story

Tell me the old, old story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his glory,
Of Jesus and his love:
Tell me the story simply,
As to a little child,
For I am weak and weary,
And helpless and defiled.

Tell me the old, old story,
Tell me the old, old story,
Tell me the old, old story,
Of Jesus and his love.

Tell me the story softly,
With earnest tones and grave;
Remember, I’m the sinner
Whom Jesus came to save:
Tell me the story always,
If you would really be,
In any time of trouble,
A comforter to me.

Tell me the same old story,
When you have cause to fear
That this world’s empty glory
Is costing me too dear:
Yes, and when that world’s glory
Is dawning on my soul,
Tell me the old, old story,
“Christ Jesus makes thee whole.”

—A. Katherine Hankey

 Other hymns, worship songs, or quotes for this Sunday:

• When He Cometh at The Happy Wonderer
• An Invitation To Sinners Only at The Outspoken Tulip
• Good Friday at That I May Know
• For Thou Art With Me at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 25, 2019 at The Thirsty Theologian

Selected Reading

I read (or watched or heard) these recently and recommend them to you.

Scripture

A First Primer on Inerrancy
“The doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture asserts that the Bible is truthful and accurate, and therefore without error in all that it affirms.” — Fred Zaspel 

How Did the Early Christians View the Books of the Bible?
This is an important truth, and one a lot of Christians don’t know: “[T]he canon wasn’t a late development; it was built into Christianity from the very start.”

Bible

Recommended Expositions on Romans
A whole bunch of lectures/sermons/studies on Romans from trusted teachers/preachers (Monergism).

Government

10 Things to Know about What the Bible Teaches on God and Human Government
I’d call this a Bible-based primer on the place of human government (and our obligation to human government) in a world ultimately governed by God.