Monthly Archives: November 2015

Book Review: NIrV Giant Print Holy Bible

Posted on November 16, 2015 by nathanalbright

NIrV Giant Print Holy Bible, editor unknown [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Zondervan in exchange for an honest review.] Many readers may think that the NIrV listed as the title of this translation of the Bible … Continue reading →

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A Change In The Nature

Posted on November 16, 2015 by nathanalbright

What sort of change in the nature of animals do you think of when I read Isaiah 11:6-9: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young … Continue reading →

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Leave A Tender Moment Alone

Posted on November 15, 2015 by nathanalbright

The Germans have a word that describes a great deal of my complicated and ambiguous feelings, sehnsucht, which refers to a passionate yearning for a world or an experience that one does not currently enjoy and has never experienced that … Continue reading →

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Non-Book Review: The U.S. Naval Institute On Naval Cooperation

Posted on November 15, 2015 by nathanalbright

This is the second “wheel book” that I have received from the Naval Historical Institute to read and review [1] and like the first one it looks like a short book that will not be particularly difficult to manage. Given … Continue reading →

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A Compendium Of Sabbath Observance In The Book Of Acts

Posted on November 15, 2015 by nathanalbright

As I was researching material for some writing on the Sabbath, I thought it worthwhile to collect for myself a list of the references to the Sabbath or Holy Days found in the book of Acts as a way of … Continue reading →

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Only Evil Continually

Posted on November 14, 2015 by nathanalbright

As is sometimes the case [1], I am spending my Sabbath morning preparing to teach a lesson to young children about a biblical matter. As it happens, today’s lesson happens to be on the story of Noah and the flood. … Continue reading →

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Reduce It To Text

Posted on November 14, 2015 by nathanalbright

One of the more enduring tendencies of my life is to reduce the context, pretext, and subtext of life into text. This tendency, like any native tendency within human beings, is not uniformly good, but has its trade-offs. On the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Parables

Posted on November 14, 2015 by nathanalbright

Parables: The Mysteries Of God’s Kingdom Revealed Through The Stories Jesus Told, by John MacArthur [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Thomas Nelson Publishing in exchange for an honest review.] This book serves as a relatively short–200 … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Divine Rest For Human Restlessness

Posted on November 13, 2015 by nathanalbright

Divine Rest For Human Restlessness: A Theological Study Of The Good News Of The Sabbath For Today, by Samuele Bacchiocchi Some years ago, when the opportunity came for me to speak and write at some length and depth about the … Continue reading →

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Colossians 2:11-23: The Substance And the Shadow

Posted on November 13, 2015 by nathanalbright

As we previously saw when we looked at Acts 15 and the Jerusalem Conference, the Bible sometimes puts questions of keeping the Sabbath and of the circumcision together.  As this happened in Acts 15, so it happens in Colossians 2, … Continue reading →

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