tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094248114996261058.post7212928788065591586..comments2023-08-27T06:33:12.637-05:00Comments on The Bible in a Year - and Beyond!: Tuesday, January 1st, 2013 - Happy New Year!Tammyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12045517118866436340noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094248114996261058.post-47505870735444395242013-01-03T09:38:26.954-06:002013-01-03T09:38:26.954-06:00Haha, Pam, that same part stuck out for me, too. ...Haha, Pam, that same part stuck out for me, too. I found myself getting rather uncomfortable! Funny how it's so much easier to see how others are <i>"chasing after their own glory"</i> than it is to see how WE'RE doing it!tammihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03803890115567631062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094248114996261058.post-42112351336272042872013-01-02T18:05:03.043-06:002013-01-02T18:05:03.043-06:00Happy New Year! Great post...this stood out for me...Happy New Year! Great post...this stood out for me:<br />"As we condemn their desire for glory—and it’s what we use Facebook and Twitter and social media to do. “Photos of what I’m doing because the whole world needs to see what I am up to because I am important, I am significant, I am central and essential, and there are things that I am doing that are glorious and you need to see them, and you need to praise me, and you need to honor me by posting on my wall.” The times have changed, but the hearts have not. It’s amazing how what we see externally reveals what is going on internally." <br /><br />How true. To think that just because he had couches of gold and individual gold glasses that he was showing off and trying to make look himself better to others, we are not immune to using social media to do the exact same thing.<br /><br />Pamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02770898936799604859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094248114996261058.post-64756852426577184662013-01-02T08:56:00.185-06:002013-01-02T08:56:00.185-06:00I purchased a Kobo the other day and my first purc...I purchased a Kobo the other day and my first purchased ebook was an NASB MacArthur Study Bible. The preface to the book of Esther says "Esther and Exodus both chronicle how vigorously foreign powers tried to eliminate the Jewish race and how God sovereignly preserved His people in accordance with His covenant promise to Abraham. As a result of God's prevailing, Esther 9 & 10 records the beginning of Purim-a new annual festival in the 12th month (Feb.-Mar.) to celebrate the nation's survival. Purim became one of two festivals given outside of the Mosaic legislation to still be celebrated in Israel (Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, is the other)."<br /><br />Also, "Along with Song of Solomon, Ruth, Ecclesiastes, and Lamentations, Esther stands with the OT books of the Megilloth, or "5 scrolls." Rabbis read these books in the synagogue on 5 special occasions during the year-Esther being read at Purim."<br /><br />Could be why Esther is included in Scripture? There is a lot more info there, but these seemed to be the most pertinent to that question. Miriamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08764103317419913495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094248114996261058.post-5295196840793655952013-01-01T14:10:28.372-06:002013-01-01T14:10:28.372-06:00I thought that last part of his sermon was particu...I thought that last part of his sermon was particularly powerful, too. (he's a good <i>yeller!</i> ;)<br /><br />I've sometimes wondered, too, how Esther got included in the Canon of Scripture. Like, how does it meet the criteria like all the other books do? I love the story though, so I don't much care!<br /><br />I also like the way Driscoll has his sermon series set up ~ always with the comparison to Jesus. Very powerful, I think.tammihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03803890115567631062noreply@blogger.com