In which I wonder, why bother with the study of biblical daisies

July 20, 2011

I ask myself today, why is the study of biblical daisies important? In the hours before dawn I spent oodles of time pondering this. In the end I decided it was because I think that the true meaning of biblical daisies has gotten twisted from the original – and only a study of all the […]

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In which I can’t get no “justification” with yellow daisies!

July 19, 2011

source We can’t be justified by yellow daisies. But “justified” is church-ese. What’s “justified”? Simple – taking someone who is guilty, and declaring them “not guilty”. If I’m guilty I don’t live forever in the presence of the One True God who will not stand with the guilty. So clearly, I want me some “justification”! […]

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In which I say thank you 1,000 times to God (#451-464)

July 18, 2011

source   My Lord, My God, I am really thankful today… #451…  that #1 on my 100’s list is all past tense. I had fixed a course that would have taken me far from You. And You crushed me to bring me home. But that event is now far past, and True North is the […]

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In which translating the Bible ain’t always easy

July 15, 2011

Yesterday I ended with some ‘splainin’ to do…and the ‘splainin’ is gonna get deep…and have lots of Greek.   Here goes… Why do some Bible translations disguise the word “works” in Romans 2:15? Isn’t it wrong to take a text and not translate it literally? Here’s Romans 2:15: it looks like this in the Greek… […]

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In which the daisies have concentric circles…

July 14, 2011

source And so… After a one-day diversion from the daisy field for some sleep deprived, and semi-delirious thoughts on humility – I get back to picking daisies from the Bible. If you’re new to this study of biblical daisies, in order for any of this to make sense, you’ll need to read this first. You’ll […]

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In which a hill must be leveled

July 13, 2011

So let’s say my name is Marcellus. I build roads… source …for the Roman Empire. The Empire hearts its roads. The roads I build are one of the reasons there are so many letters making up the New Testament. Because of them a first century letter could get from Spain to Jerusalem in a matter […]

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In which we’re judged by our daisies…but…

July 12, 2011

source I just finished writing the other post on Deep Into Love about fighting the negative voices in our heads. That. Was. Hard. And now I’m here, and I get to write about works = daisies… And this is easy… Studying Scripture, for me, is really non-stressful… anyway… now … all the daisies in the […]

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In which it’s a good day to say thank you to God 1,000 times (#’s 437-450)

July 11, 2011

It’s just a thorn in my side, we all have thorns, I wrestle with this one each day, today it wears the championship belt. It ruffles and goads and bullies. If you read me a little you know my thorn is sleep. It’s been 15 years since I slept more than 4 hours in a […]

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In which the abstract becomes real

July 8, 2011

ƪ(◠‿◠)╯look closely – it’s my very first original “artistic” photo ƪ(◠‿◠)╯ Today all the theoretical green, yellow, and the sad black daisies are clothed in reality. Tuesday and Wednesday I meandered through the daisy field to see where I picked my biblical daisies from, and noted all the colors, and linked back to each original […]

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In which a whole bunch of daisies gain substance

July 7, 2011

Today, this… source becomes this… source One last day of rounding up the daisies from the Gospels and Acts. The last two days I looked at each one, and explained where I got them, and what color daisy they were, and linked back to the blog post for each daisy. But I noticed that I […]

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