“Contentment should be the hallmark of the man or woman who has put his or her affairs in the hands of God.”
A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by, W. Phillip Keller
“A fundamental element of ministry is getting your guts knifed out and then minutes or hours later standing at a pulpit and saying that God is Great and meaning it.” -@stephenrjking
Preacher, feeling insufficient? When your abilities can’t quite pay the bill, God’s grace will make up the difference. We must depend wholly on Him.
“not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;” 2 Corinthians 3:5
Through the years God has brought basket cases to our ministry. This morning I said to my wife, “I’ll love all the basket cases He sends our way.”
I believe it’s good for them, it’s good for me, and it’s good for God’s church.
Prayer unlocks the door to peace
Ph4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
On Sunday mornings all the men & boys in our ministry are invited to a special time of worship 2 hrs before service. We learn about worship, we sing some hymns, & we worship the Lord. It is a great aid to encourage men to lead their families in worship throughout the day & week.
@Mgk13169 @BrudnakJosiah It is difficult for me, as a linguist, to imagine an accurate translation of a translation of the Scriptures, honestly. Though I suppose if you were an expert in Elizabethan English, in hermeneutics, and in the target language, it could be possible w/God’s supernatural enabling.
God can turn a handicap into an asset.
“…LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: … Ehud made him a dagger … and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.” Judges 3:15-16 (cf. 1 Cor 1:26-29 & 2 Cor 12:9-10)
@BrudnakJosiah The base text, translation method, and the qualification of the translators is a good place to start. But since there is a whole gamut of positions on the KJV, then there will be a whole gamut of opinions on what makes a foreign language translation its “equivalent.”
@NCravatt Though you may not see a connection between the TR and the originals, I hope you can see that your TR friends’ position is rooted in their faith in God’s promise to preserve his words. Hills’ emphasis on faith in this matter of textual history was very compelling to me. (2/2)
@NCravatt In bibliology there is a scriptural belief (with historical precedent) in preservation. For a historical example, the Westminster confession (1646) says that God by “his singular care and providence kept [the Scriptures] pure in all ages”. (1/2)
@NCravatt Hills’ education:
Graduated summa cum laude at Yale University (1930–33)
Th.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary (1938)
Th.M. from Columbia Theological Seminary
Th.D. in New Testament textual criticism from Harvard
@NCravatt His pedigree as a scholar was actually what drew me to his book, the King a James Version Defended (written in the 50’s). He had no ties that I know of to men like Peter Ruckman or David Otis Fuller. (2/2)