I must follow, if I can

Pursuing it with eager feet / Until it joins some larger way

  • "God and Foreign Relations"

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 12, 2009

    Chapter 2 in Michael Horton’s book, Introducing Covenant Theology, is called “God and Foreign Relations.” In this chapter, anthropology comes into play as we learn about ancient treaties. We also learn that the covenants God made with his people were structured the same way as these treaties, but with some... [Read More]
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  • External links

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 11, 2009

    Rob Bell’s “Feminine Images” for God - The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood website has an article criticizing Rob Bell’s mishandling of the original languages. Bell says because the Hebrew word for “compassion” has the same root as “womb”, therefore anywhere compassion is used, it implies femininity. What? HT:... [Read More]
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  • A Time to Kill…

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 8, 2009

    For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break... [Read More]

  • Words for the Wind

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 4, 2009

    To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food. day and... [Read More]
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  • What’s "The Big Idea?"

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on June 4, 2009

    “The Big Idea” is the title for the first chapter in Michael Horton’s book, Introducing Covenant Theology, which was previously published in hardcover under the title, God of Promise: Introducing Covenant Theology. [Read More]
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  • The Threefold Cord

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 30, 2009

    Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm,... [Read More]
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  • Elders in every church…

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 28, 2009

    The church where we have providentially found ourselves is accepting elder nominations through the month of May, even as the pastor teaches a series on the character of a godly leader as laid out in Scripture. The order of worship handout actually has some lines at the bottom where you... [Read More]
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  • The Solidarity of Humanity

     By Aaron Lord

    Posted on May 26, 2009

    At Christina’s graduation ceremony at Chico State on Saturday, a graduating senior from the College of Humanities and Fine Arts spoke about the need to remove the “filters” through which we view the mass of humanity that surrounds us. When we look at people we need to see them not... [Read More]
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