Scripture Zealot blog

• Quotes from The Person of Jesus by Gresham Machen August 20
  Here are some quotes from the book The Person of Jesus: Radio Addresses on the Deity of the Savior by Gresham Machen. This is a very short book of a series of radio addresses given in 1935. This post is under the new category of Book Quotes, which gives you a sample of a recently […]
• Around the Web August 16
  Your Deadliest Weapon Against the Devil: Eight Reasons to Memorize Scripture | Desiring God Why all the Superlatives? – Reformation21 Blog – The post is awesome!!! I may expand on this in another post. The Upward Call – The Gift of Anxiety Anxiety has taught me a lot about compassion. It has taught me that mental […]
• Timothy Keller on Prayer – Part 2 of 2 August 12
  Here are eleven quotes from his book on Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God. This is the best book I’ve read on prayer so far. It’s something I like to read about regularly. [Prayer is] A personal, communicative response to the knowledge of God. What is prayer, then, in its fullest sense? Prayer is […]
• Timothy Keller on Prayer – Part 1 of 2 August 6
  Timothy Keller wrote a book entitled Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God. The next post will have quotes from that book. There is an excellent interview with him at Desiring God: 10 Questions on Prayer with Tim Keller. If you don’t have time, or want to read my mumbling, I have a few quotes […]
• What Did Moses Do So Wrong? August 4
  On that same day the Lord told Moses, “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo in Moab, across from Jericho, and view Canaan, the land I am giving the Israelites as their own possession. There on the mountain that you have climbed you will die and be gathered to your people, just as […]
• Around the Web – Bible Reading Edition July 26
  Unlock the Riches of Scripture | Desiring God When I read a sentence, what I want to know is What did the author intend by it? not What new ideas do I have when I read it? He promotes active reading by asking questions (he has eight), which is exactly what I’ve been learning when […]
• Christ’s Suffering Is Beyond Our Comprehension July 22
  Regarding the suffering of Jesus, I often find myself thinking, ‘But did he have to deal with… (this, that or the other thing that he didn’t directly experience)?’ This doesn’t matter, because he suffered virtually infinitely more than we could ever suffer, in any way, no matter what. He had to. That was a revelation […]
• Around the Web July 14
  A Creative Way to Unlock More of the Bible – Faith Spilling Over – explains some of the things I like to do that I’ve found helpful–using various translations, looking up a definition of English words, sentence flow (or Phrasing Scripture)–although she does more drawing, which looks interesting. 7 Surprising Facts About the LGBT Community […]
• Psalm 84-Scripture and Song July 8
  I’m in the process of studying and memorizing Psalm 84. (I’d like to do a post on new–to me–memorization techniques.) In The Treasury of David, I found a song, which reads as a poem, attributed only to German Choral Music. It’s very interesting because it doesn’t just rewrite each line, it puts some parts of […]
• Why Deuteronomy Is Important June 25
  Every book of the Bible is important. This is a post about some reasons why Deuteronomy is important. I’ve recently been reading the commentary on Deuteronomy (The NIV Application Commentary) by Daniel Block in a devotional sort of way. I’ve wanted to read a commentary on Deuteronomy for a long time because of it being […]