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Lydia McGrew's personal, biblical studies, and apologetics blog

Sunday, August 28, 2011

A little Gospel

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Okay, time for another outbreak of Gospel music. I know we've had this one before, but hey...Ernie Haase with the Cathedrals, long ag...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Matthew 18 does not apply to criticizing public articles

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This should not need to be said, but I've become aware (most recently through some reactions to a post at W4) that some in the evangelic...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Suppressing the truth

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This is an amazing video clip at Gates of Vienna: A reporter interviews a man who was an eyewitness to the raiding of his store. She'...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Me on everything

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For anyone who is wondering, "What does Lydia McGrew think about the fact that London has burned for several nights in a row?" I...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011

John Who Saw

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From Adrian Green-Armytage, John Who Saw (1952) There is a world -- I do not say a world in which all scholars live but one at any rate int...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Reality, magic, and temptation

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The issue of magic has been on my mind a bit lately, partly because of this post by Jeff Culbreath at W4. There are, I'm sure, many rea...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

"Before the Throne of God Above"

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It has been a long time since I've learned of a new (to me) hymn that is actually old, historically--that I like, that is. It turns out ...
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Monday, July 04, 2011

Moral equivalence about homosexuality is a serious confusion

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Below, I made a comment about Thomas Cranmer. In his response , commentator Alex mentioned in passing that he began to read a biography of C...
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Under God

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A happy 4th of July to all my readers. Here is "Under God" by the Booth Brothers: I used it in this post back in the winter at W4.
Monday, June 27, 2011

Comment testing

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This will sound like a shameless ploy to get more comments, but I've decided to post it anyway: I've recently learned of a person wh...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

The cross and Mr. Hiles

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In doing research for my Messiah post, below , I learned about the case , now several years old, of chaplain Michael Hiles. The basic facts ...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

At the Name of Jesus

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For Palm Sunday a few weeks back the epistle reading in the BCP was the famous kenosis passage from Philippians 2: Let this mind be in you, ...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

High and Lifted Up

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In keeping with the digression in my Messiah post below (on Jesus' words, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me"), h...

Blessed Trinitytide

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A blessed Trinity Sunday to my readers. Instead of giving you the collect for Trinity Sunday this week, I'm going to give you one of the...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The annunciation, the two Messiahs, and Divine Justice

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There is a certain type of sermon one hears from time to time that has always bothered me. It goes roughly like this: "The reason the J...
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Sunday, June 05, 2011

Ascension Sunday

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Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that like as we do believe thy only begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ to have ascended into the heave...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Rogation Sunday--"Great Is Thy Faithfulness"

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Today is Rogation Sunday. That means that we pray for the farmers and for all those who plant and grow things for the good of mankind. Here ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

The chimera of the peace process

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The problem of the Israelis and the "Palestinians" is intractable. There is no good solution. And the reason that there is no good...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Two folk tunes

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I've recently been reading a fun but not first-tier mystery novel in which the English folk tune "Bushes and Briars" features....
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Rare Lipizzaner footage

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Unless you find horses boring (and who could possibly find horses boring?), watch this video for refreshment of the spirit. Because things ...
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