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An Examination of Paul’s Teaching on the LORD’s Supper in I Corinthians 11:17-34
It occurred to me that over the years of worshipping in various denominations, I have been exposed to the LORD’s Supper being celebrated to differing degrees of significance. But for the most part, as I remember, there were few, if any, strictures placed on those taking Communion, perhaps the most common restriction being, to be…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Meets with Cyclists in Celebration of World Bicycle Day
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with cyclists on June 3 at The Grand National Assembly of Turkey in celebration of World Bicycle Day. [Note: The caption under the banner headline announcing 3 June World Bicycle Day in red letters, it reads “Choose a bicycle for a liveable world!”]
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Theoretical Reconstruction of the Derivation of the Conceptual Word ‘Church’
This fascinating study on the derivation of the word ‘church’ and its adoption into most translations of the Bible as the proper translation for the Greek εκκλησια (transliterated as ekklesia, Greek-based; or ecclesia, Latin-based) was spurred by a discussion in a book my wife and I read recently. The author claimed that in Hebrew, the…
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Book Review: William Tyndale – A Biography
Whether in his bibliography or somewhere in the text of his biography of Tyndale, “God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal,” Brian Moynahan refers to David Daniell’s tome, which carries the eponym of the title of this book review. Daniell, in addition…
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Russian Thinktank Claims Ukraine Takeover First Move To Reintegrate Former USSR, Realign Geopolitical Spheres of Influence, late-March 2022
Although it was my endeavor to summarize as succinctly as possible, because of the length of the original piece, this post is somewhat lengthy. Hopefully, the length will not overwhelm the reader, nor the information, underwhelm! In my opinion, this article offers an opportunity to peer “behind the veil” and view, virtually, the thought processes…
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Turkish President Erdoğan Issues Paschal Greeting, mid-April 2022
I greet our Christian countrymen on the Paschal Holiday. Our country, where everyone is able to experience their own faith, culture, and tradition freely, and our nation, in which brotherhood and solidarity are interlocked one to the other with their feelings, continues its incomparable example for the whole world. From the past up to today,…
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September 11th National Memorial Trail
My wife and I visited the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Flight 93 memorial in September 2021. It had been a long time coming, but we finally made the trip, and after having done so, I’m of the opinion that it is one that everyone should make. Although our trip was almost exactly 20 years after that horrible…
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Book Review: The Bible in Translation – Ancient and English Versions by Bruce Metzger
Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-2007) was for many years a professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. According to the brief biographical sketch on the back cover of the volume under review, he was an expert in ancient biblical manuscripts and as such was a member of three major Bible translation projects…
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Book Review of “God’s Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible – A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal”
To those with some knowledge of the tension that existed within western Christendom in the late Middle Ages, the title of Brian Moynahan’s book tells the story in a nutshell. There is the protagonist, William Tyndale, the man of languages, whose love for God and His Word led him to translate the New Testament and…
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Turkey Dances To a New Tune of Rapprochement with Israel as Tensions Grow with Iran
[Analytic summary: Although the author uses the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as the springboard for his article, its thrust is rather the predicament that Turkey is finding itself in by virtue of its apparent rapprochement with Israel and growing tension with Iran. This web of tri-lateral relations has become stickier by seeing…
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The Dragon is Slain 