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Husband, father of four, Presbyterian pastor and professor, Semitics Ph.D., grateful sheep of my Good Shepherd

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It was a great last week of classes—full of firsts as our last class periods were in the new Westminster Hall. These are some pics of our Biblical Aramaic class (where we got to dip our toe into Qumran’s Book of the Giants), the building, and the view from my office.

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"The victory of sin and death is only temporary. God will defeat the last enemy [death]. While graveyards may remind one of the brevity of life, the resurrection ensures the brevity of death."

- David E. Garland, 1 Corinthians, Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (Baker Academic, 2003), 681.

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@ShehanCoach @Biblicalman A Gittite is a man "of Gath."

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“I’m so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.” - the death bed words of J. Gresham Machen…Amen!

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Good word from Stephen Coleman at Westminster’s midweek chapel yesterday. In the call to Joshua to “be strong and courageous” we see that we enter God’s promised rest by grace, through faith, in the faithfulness of God’s Savior, the greater Joshua who saves his people from their sins.

Check it out here: https://t.co/JBjlwykxUW

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Excited for this!

[Brandon Crowe @brandondcrowe]

Just submitted a manuscript for a novel to be published by @AmbassadorIntl
Look for it down the road!

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Finally available for purchase on Amazon. Here it is if you haven't picked it up yet:

https://t.co/fjgFDc3Jau

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@joshcurrie87 @RevKevDeYoung Yes - saw that! Very kind of him! Thanks again for making it happen!

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Nice shoutout from Shane Lems over at @ReformedRead

https://t.co/nTK7ll0aHX

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@JoshuaBarzon 1. ESV/CSB (good English “sweet spot” translations)
2. NKJV (Christian wooden version, despite being based on the majority text)
3. NJPS (for OT - Jewish often sensitive to features of Hebrew)

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Hard but hopeful truth:

The lessons learned through suffering, must be learned this side of glory (Rev. 21:4).

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@LigonDuncan @McLeanPres Look forward to having you up here!

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Two papers to present next week:

ETS - Catechesis in a Time of Crisis: John Thomson’s Explication and an Old Sider’s Pastoral Theology
(Tuesday, November 18, 2:20–3:00 PM @ Copley Place - Fifth Floor: New Hampshire)

SBL - Ventive Reflexes in Biblical Hebrew? A Case Study in the Verbal Forms of בוא / bô'
(Monday, November 24, 3:05–3:30 PM @ 104 [First Level] - Hynes Convention Center)

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@WestminsterTS Looking forward to these!

[Westminster Seminary @WestminsterTS]

Always refreshing to hear a B.B. Warfield story!

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"Such is the woful Degeneracy and Corruption of human Nature, even in the Church herself, that if by the Mercy and Goodness of God, She be for a While freed from a persecuting Sword, She soon waxeth wanton, turns luxuriant, and becomes the Disturber of her own Peace; either by Error or Division, and commonly there is a Mixture of both together."

- John Thomson, The Doctrine of Convictions Set in a Clear Light (Philadelphia: A Bradford, 1741), 1–2.

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“There is someone who would, were it possible, snatch Christ's people from his hand. He was trying to snatch them when he confronted Jesus in the desert. The adversary tried to snatch Jesus's people when Jesus was at his weakest, when our Savior was tempted to doubt. He tried to snatch them as the soldiers mocked Jesus, but our Savior kept his promise. He had all his people firmly in hand, and he never let them go. He took us with him, as it were, when he went into the tomb, when he emerged from the tomb, and when he ascended to the Father's right hand in power. Our preservation and perseverance are as certain as Jesus's ascension.” @RScottClark, The Heidelberg Catechism, 24-25.

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@DrMakaryFDA I have been taking Armour Thyroid for 35 years with no downsides. I do not want other synthetic forms despite my insurance company’s attempts to pressure me to try them. Please do not let those trying to remove these so we have to buy their versions persuade you.

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@PastorPerks @Christian_Focus Love it!