I wanted to share this with my friends. Matt Abney, a gifted musician & member of the PaLO VErde family, wrote and performs this moving tribute to the fallen here in Tucson. "Close to Home" is powerful in lyrics and video. We have had a rough time in Tucson. Thank you Matt Abney for blessing us. This was shared with our Sunday morning assembly here at ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Pride - U2 - Martin Luther King
Posted on 9:20 PM by Unknown
In honor of a modern day prophet of justice, Martin Luther King Jr, I post this song by one of the most gifted & prophetic bands of the age ... U2. We, as a people, are better because he walked among ...
Posted in Bobby's World, Contemporary Ethics, Kingdom, Martin Luther King, Music, Race Relations
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Ancestry of the King James Version #6: The Septuagint
Posted on 1:22 PM by Unknown

Previous Essays on the Ancestry of the King James Version are #1; #2; #3; #4; and #5 click on a link. Opening Quotable Quotes"A single hour lovingly devoted to the text of the Septuagint will further our exegetical knowledge of the Pauline Epistles more than a whole day spent over a commentary" (Adolf Deismann, 1908)"We also remind the same class of readers, that an intimate acquaintance with the Septuagint Greek of the Old Testament, is of essential...
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Ancestry of the King James Version #5: More Greek Thoughts & "Literal" Translation
Posted on 9:10 AM by Unknown

Previous contributions on this thread are linked here: Ancestry of the KJV #1; Ancestry of the KJV #2; Ancestry of the KJV #3; Ancestry of the KJV #4Just a few thoughts on Greek and translation. In order to show in the clearest manner of the difficulty in this I will point out a few differences between English and Greek. Translation is not simply looking up a definition in the back of Strong’s Concordance and then thinking we can “translate.” Sentence...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Ancestry of the King James #4: ABCs of Bible Languages
Posted on 10:18 AM by Unknown

Quotable Quote"The Bible is the most remarkable piece of literature this world has ever seen. It has outsold every other publication, it has been translated into more languages than any other, and has become part of the fabric of society in the English-speaking world ...Humanly speaking, it took more than 1500 years to compile the Bible. About forty authors contributed, and they wrote primarily in Greek and Hebrew, with occasional Aramaic ...Some...
Monday, January 3, 2011
Ancestry of the King James Version #3: Making Books in the Ancient World
Posted on 5:15 PM by Unknown

See my previous Ancestry of the KJV #1 and Ancestry of the KJV #2The Beginnings ...When the Lord God called Moses to lead a band of slaves out of the horrors of Egyptian slavery he, an 80 yr old man, would change human history. Up until Moses there had been no Bible of any kind. Moses would become the first great prophet of Yahweh's good news. Tradition has it that Moses was the first great author of the Pentateuch but whether or not he wrote it...
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