David Shaw

Pastor of Woodstock Road Baptist Church (@WRBCOxford)

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

Not sure that there's a more lovely or profound definition of a Christian than Rev 14:4.

"They follow the Lamb wherever he goes"

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

Was Paul in fact not a tentmaker but a stage builder/scenic carpenter in the theatre? Plausible and fascinating article by the excellent David Starling.

[Cambridge University Press - Religion @CambUP_Religion]

New Issue of New Testament Studies now available
📚 https://t.co/AkeKm4TBbn

#NewTestament #ReligiousStudies

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

Here’s what I think: I think you shouldn’t do things that will predictably make you less virtuous (ie less good-powerful).

That means don’t use AI to write, don’t use a mobility scooter to walk.

Do your own stunts, in life. And train for them.

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

“My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.”
G.K. Chesterton

[Wodehouse Tweets @inimitablepgw]

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

[Niv Lobo @NivLobo]

Vos: ‘The joy of working in the dawn of the world to come quickens the pulse of every New Testament servant of Christ.’

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

@DuncanHollands @TheFrankSkinner yep, new series just started...

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well the world is just a little brighter now @TheFrankSkinner is back talking about poetry.

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

'The only real question to be asked of another: "What are you going through?"'

Simone Weil

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'Good Friday' by Christina Rossetti

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Matthew Henry on Psalm 16:4

"Those who multiply gods multiply griefs to themselves; for whoever thinks one God too little, will find two too many, and yet hundreds not enough."

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

CSB much better than NIV on John 19:31

It was the day of Preparation and:

NIV ...the next day was to be a special Sabbath

CSB: ...that Sabbath was a special day [footnote: lit. great]

Klink's commentary: "this truly was the great day"... not "Good Friday" but "Great Friday"

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

Spurgeon on Jesus' words "It is finished"

“What “it” was it that was finished? It is the biggest “it” that ever was. Turn it over and you will see that it will grow, and grow, and grow, and grow, till it fills the whole earth.”

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

Frederick Dale Bruner on Pilate's inscription - "King of the Jews" - in Aramaic, Latin and Greek:

"The cross is international the moment Jesus mounts it."

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” Middlemarch

[Dr. Lewis Allen @LewisJGAllen]

‘Better the sun were taken out of the heavens than the Gospel out of the Church.’

John Flavel

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

Today's the day I learnt that "in our behalf" is a phrase in its own right, and has a meaning distinct from "on our behalf"

in behalf of = to the benefit of someone
on behalf of - in the place or/representing someone.

So, happily, the Lord works on our behalf in our behalf.

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

Augustine on Jesus' arrest in John 18

They, verily, in their mad rage, sought for Him to put Him to death; but He, too, in giving Himself to death, was seeking for us.

[David Shaw @_David_Shaw]

@garethtrussell there's a link to a free PDF at the bottom of the article :)

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@ChrisHowles Hey Chris. thanks for this! what's the source? cheers