Walking and memorising

In May, 2013 Joan and i became the proud owners of Baxter, born 10th November 2010, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and Louie, born 6th July, 2012, a miniature poodle cross, perhaps a shoodle.

It wasn't long before we realised that walking them individually would be much more peaceful than walking them together.

So, every day [nearly] Joan and I go for about a half an hour walk. Nearly every time, I walk with Louie. Occasionally, we swap, or I walk both dogs.

During the past year I have been attempting to memorise Scripture as I walk. I firstly had a crack at memorising Colossians 1 in the ESV translation, and also tried to learn Genesis 1 and John 1, both in the King James Version.

I have not got very far with this, but I have learnt or relearnt 15 psalms, in the venerable KJV. It has been much harder learning one I had not been familiar with, than revising ones I had learnt in Sunday School.

These are my first 15 psalms. If you look them up, you'll see they are some of  the shorter ones!

Psalms

Book 1

1, 8

14, 15

23

Book 2

46

54

70

Book 3

82

Book 4

100

Book 5

117, 121

133, 134

150

There are still about 30 that have less than ten verses, which I hope to draw on, over the next year.

There's a lot of variety in the Psalms. You could study them for your whole life and not exhaust them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The censored bit in the City of God

I've been reading Augustine's City of God this year. Today, when I read Book XIV:26, I noticed that Marcus Dods had left a passage in the Latin. (I remember this also being done in Calvin's Commentary on Genesis, in the comment on Genesis 30:37-43 [approximately]).

I managed to find a translation in Google Books, here. It is amazing how squeamish a translator can be!

More helpful stuff on sanctification

A summary of Derek Thomas' talk on sanctification at The Gospel Reformation Network lunch.

And a summary of that is this:

Sanctification is not passive and is absolutely necessary

Another great article from Montgomery, Alabama

When I read this thoughtful, careful, encouraging article on understanding justification and sanctification and discovered it came from Montgomery, Alabama, I assumed it must have been the author of the stimulating article on creation and evolution.

But, it turns out that this city has at least two good writers and thinkers.

The first article was by Alan Cross, of Gateway Baptist Church, who blogs at Downshore Drift

The second was by Tom Hicks, pastor at Morningview Baptist Church.

The Wee Flea

Have you come across David Robertson? I'm not referring to the new chief conductor of The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, but to a Scots Presbyterian gentleman who writes very wisely.

I appreciate his review of Engaging with Keller.

And I am greatly awed by his patience, persistence and faithfulness in his interactions with angry atheists, which has resulted in at least a few people coming to faith in Christ.

Who dares to query evolution?

This is a good statement of why someone can dare to query macro evolution.

What do American Christian teenagers believe about Jesus?

This survey has some sobering information, but it is worth pondering.

 

Embracing contemporary values seems much more important than holding fast to the teaching of the Bible, it seems.