Category: Bible
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Sermon: Lying Down and Sleeping Like Jesus
A sermon for the second week after Pentecost from Psalm 4 — you can watch/listen here starting around 27:14 The last verse of Psalm 4 is one of the most well known lines of any Psalm: In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety. […]
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Searching the Fathers of the Church Series in Logos Bible Software
What do the church fathers have to say about this passage? It’s an important question that we should ask often, and The Fathers of the Church (144 vols.) series in Logos is an ideal resource to turn to for answers. In this post, I want to show you how to search the Fathers of the […]
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Multiple Posts: Fathers of the Church (144 vols.) in Logos Bible Software
This page hosts links to a collection of posts focused on the Fathers of the Church (144 vols.) series in Logos Bible Software: Fathers of the Church Series, Part 1: Ancient Commentaries Searching the Fathers of the Church Series in Logos Bible Software Reading the Fathers of the Church in the Logos Mobile Apps
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Fathers of the Church Series in Logos, Part 1: Ancient Commentaries
Logos recently updated their Fathers of the Church (144 vols.) series, and I think this resource clearly demonstrates the benefits of building a digital library in Logos Bible Software. Reading and research can be done in a variety of ways, and I think it is important to take advantage of the unique benefits of each […]
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Fourth Edition of Tov’s Textual Criticism of HB
I just recieved an email from Fortress Press announcing a fourth edition of Emanuel Tov’s monumental Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. This is very surprising because the third edtion was itself a huge expansion and revision. Tov’s work is more than an “introduction.” There’s nothing else like it. What’s new in the fourth edition? […]
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Jesus, Jokes, and Joy — a sermon on John 21:1–14
You can listen to the sermon here, beginning at 25:44. This morning we gather around a fire pit with Jesus. Is that not a wonderful thought? I wonder if you think of Jesus as a good fire pit friend? Do you know what happens around a fire pit? There is peace, solace, warmth, delightful crackling […]
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The Good of Good Friday
a Good Friday Sermon from John 19 It would be easy to riff on the name Good Friday, but I don’t want to do that tonight. I want to talk about what’s truly good about Good Friday. Good Friday shows us what winning looks like. Good Friday shows us the true, long-awaited king. Good Friday […]
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An Accordance Workspace with Room for Looking Up Verse References
In Accordance, you can set your preferences so that hyperlinks open in a text browser tab. If you make room for the text browser in your workspace, you can explore any hyperlinked verse references in multiple versions. Hyperlink to Text Browser In your Accordance preferences, at the very bottom of the amplify section, you can […]
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Searching a Phrase in Accordance Across all Greek Texts
I want to demonstrate a particularly useful, quick search method in Accordance. It’s particularly noteworthy because of of the combination of how easy it is to run and how significant and useful the results are. This morning, I was reading Luke 21, and a couple words stood out to me. Here’s the verse: Luke 21:22 […]
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The World’s Oldest Alphabet in Accordance
Last week, Accordance released a few new Hebrew-related modules. You can read my post here about one those new modules, Ada Yardeni’s Understanding the Alphabet of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this post, I want to highlight Douglas Petrovich’s The World’s Oldest Alphabet: Hebrew as the Language of the Proto-Consonantal Script, published by Carta with […]
Brian W. Davidson 