August 31st, 2020 I just finished watching the Netflix documentary American Gospel: Christ Alone and I found it to be very interesting. It’s all about the prosperity gospel and how it is not what the actual gospel is all about. The prosperity gospel is all about how faith will give you health and wealth and …
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August 26th, 2020 Monday, March 16th, 2020 is when I began to work from home during the COVID-19 Pandemic. As I’m sure many of us do at the beginning of national emergencies, I looked to America’s leadership for guidance. What I got instead was disjointed and unclear as to what I should be doing. While …
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August 25th, 2020 I just finished reading the Song of Songs from the Bible and I wanted to compile my thoughts. It was quite a nice break-away from a lot of the stories in the Bible thus far. It has also made me think about relationships in general. Part of the reason I started reading …
August 25th, 2020 I’ve just finished reading the Book of Ecclesiastes and I wanted to compile my thoughts. I think the lessons presented in the Book of Ecclesiastes are lessons that I have learned through experience or study. The main lessons are time moves ever forward and death comes to us all. For a long …
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August 24th, 2020 I just finished reading the Book of Proverbs and would like to organize my thoughts. The Book of Proverbs seems to be a very practical book with a lot of useful sayings. Some notable Proverbs are as follows: “Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.” Proverbs …
August 22, 2020 I finished reading Psalms yesterday and it has sparked some profound thoughts that I’d like to expand on here. Firstly, I went to a Bible study on Sunday and had a good discussion where I talked with some folks about what I had been studying and the conclusions I had made. I …
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August 20, 2020 I finished the Book of Job yesterday and while I don’t think I fully comprehend what was being said, I think it would be beneficial to talk about it. The book of Job is the first book of wisdom literature in the Christian bible and as such the themes and discussion are …
August 16th, 2020 I just finished reading the Book of Esther, as well as the books of Nehemiah earlier and Ezra yesterday. Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one book and described the accounts of Jews returning to Jerusalem after being exiled by Nebuchadnezzar. It is my opinion that the events and characters being written are …
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August 13th, 2020 I just finished reading Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man by Henri Frankfort and I wanted to do my best to summarize the remainder of that book here (see this previous post for a partial summary of the Egyptian parts) as well as expand on it with my own thoughts. …
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August 8th, 2020 I finished reading 1 Chronicles last night and am currently reading through Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man by Henri Frankfort. It’s basically about the formation of a proto-philosophy in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and is fairly difficult to get through so far. I finished the three Egyptian chapters and …
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