The Scriptorium Daily

Category: Theology

  • God Keep Thee, Freddy, In the World

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    Fred Sanders
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    My Freddy, when I look on thee, So pure, so guileless, and so gay, With sunny smile and eye of blue, Clear as the blushing dawn of day — I think how lovely is the trust Which God to man has largely given; So beauteous is the fallen dust, With yet within a spark from…

  • Cast Away (F. B. Meyer)

    Cast Away (F. B. Meyer)

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    Fred Sanders
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     “If I had a hundred lives, they should be at Christ’s disposal,” said F. B. Meyer (born today, April 8, 1847; died 1929), a great Baptist minister who flourished about a century ago. Bob Holman has just published (and I have not yet read) a biography of Meyer, taking that statement as its subtitle: F.B.…

  • The Battle for Accuracy: Revised v. Authorized Version

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    R.A. Torrey
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    Question: Which is the more accurate translation of 2 Timothy 3:16, that of the Authorized Version, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” or that of the Revised Version, “Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof,…

  • C. H. Dodd and Realized Eschatology

    C. H. Dodd and Realized Eschatology

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    Fred Sanders
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    C. H. Dodd (born this day, April 7, 1884; died 1973) was a major twentieth-century New Testament scholar. He wrote on many topics, but his name is mostly associated with the idea of realized eschatology. If eschatology is the doctrine of the final things (eschaton being the Greek word for “last”), then realized eschatology is…

  • Albrecht Dürer, Northern Renaissance Man

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    Fred Sanders
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    Albrecht Dürer (born 1471, died on this day, April 6, in 1528) was widely hailed as the greatest artist of his generation in the northern Renaissance. All kinds of voluptuous shenanigans were going on in the wonderful world of the southern Renaissance, but if you want that stern, northern sensibility, it’s hard to beat Dürer…

  • Behold Your King: Reflections on a Palm Sunday

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    Melissa Schubert
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    Christians remember on Palm Sunday the triumphal entry of Christ to Jerusalem–the King of Glory riding to the ostensible seat of his political and religious power, received as victor and Lord with shouts of Hosannas. But there is a great deal about the scene that–at least as it hits my imagination–speaks of Christ’s humility: riding…

  • Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769), Pietist

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    Fred Sanders
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    Today is the anniversary of the death of Gerhard Tersteegen (born 1697, died April 3, 1769), the most pious pietist of pietism’s piousness. Somehow, the words “pious” and “pietism” have been turned into dirty words in contemporary usage. I don’t know how that happened to perfectly good words. Maybe where you live, you are suffocating…

  • Mordecai Ham Tried to Baptize a Cat

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    Fred Sanders
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    When he was a seven year old boy in Kentucky, Mordecai F. Ham (born today, April 2, 1877, died 1961) tried to “immerse an old tomcat in a rain trough, and when the subject vented all its feline ferocity in objecting to the ‘baptism,’ little Mordecai threw him down with the disgusted explanation, ‘Go on,…

  • The Best Book on Jesus’ Divinity

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    Fred Sanders
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    Many months ago, Ed Komoszewski wrote to me and asked if I might be interested in seeing a forthcoming book he had recently finished co-authoring with Rob Bowman. It was on the deity of Christ; I was interested; he sent me page proofs; I loved it. The book was Putting Jesus in His Place: The…

  • David Brainerd Went to the Indians (1743)

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    Fred Sanders
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    It was on April 1, 1743, that David Brainerd (1718-1747) went out into the American wilderness to be a missionary to the Native Americans. Brainerd’s influence on world missions has been enormous, but it has all been through Jonathan Edwards’ posthumous publication of his notes and journals. As edited by Edwards, the Life of Brainerd…

  • How to Be Led by the Holy Spirit

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    R.A. Torrey
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    Q: How can one distinguish between the leading of the Holy Spirit and a mere impulse of our own heart? A. The most important condition of being able to distinguish the true leading of the Holy Spirit is that we be absolutely surrendered to the will of God. There are many people doing the things…

  • Happy Birthday to Haydn

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    Fred Sanders
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    Joseph Haydn was born on March 31, 1732, in Austria. He died on May 31, 1809. There’s plenty of Haydn music to choose from, much of it exquisitely good for casual listening: concertos, string quartets, piano trios, symphonies, etc. But if you want to move to the slightly more ambitious side of Haydn’s works, try…