https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9honCV3qc Danny Boyle is well known for doing creative and interesting films— for example Slum Dog Millionaire, or Trainspotting. Another such film with a clever and interesting premise is Yesterday. And before you ask, this film about Beatles songs was signed off on by Paul, Ringo, and those representing George and John. And no wonder. It is an excellent film featuring some of the Beatles best and most memorable. And before you ask a second question– yes Mr. Patel really... Read more
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Whenever I get homesick, I play some version of this JT classic….. Here’s a special one from my favorite Bluegrass and Gospel Girl—- Allison Read more
When my friends from overseas ask me what in the world is going on with American politics, I tell them— listen to the old Pat Metheny and David Bowie song from The Falcon and the Snowman movie soundtrack….. because… ‘this is not America’ Read more
Prov. 11.22 says this—- “Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.” To really appreciate the incongruity the writer is pointing out, one must remember that pigs were considered very unclean animals, and no Jew should come in contact with, much less eat their meat in any form. This is why the story of the Gerasene demoniac in the Gospels would have been humorous to early Jews— well of course unclean spirits... Read more
Here’s an early Christian perspective on the Christian life in a non-Christian world and how we should view it. But while living in both Greek and barbarian cities, as each have obtained by lot, and while following the local customs both in clothing and in diet and in the rest of life, they demonstrate the wonderful and most certainly strange character of their own citizenship. They live in their own countries, but as aliens. They share in everything as citizens... Read more
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What is in many ways my most important book of a lifetime of scholarship is Biblical Theology: The Convergence of the Canon. It will be released the last day of this month, and at $34.99 for the paperback for over 500 pages of material it is a bargain considering how much this book contains. If you read the editorial reviews and endorsements, you will find that it is called by Scot McKnight the textbook on this subject for the foreseeable... Read more
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