Bible Translation I’d Patron if I become Rich: The King Charles Translation: 1611 Authorized Bible given the IVP BCP 1662 update. 1. Update to follow modern Bible formatting & punctuation. 2. Correct known AV translation issues. 3. Extremely conservative change of words only that have changed meanings since 1611. 4. Footnote system to explain Hebrew/Greek turns of phrase translated word-for-word in AV and to define “archaic” English words/phrases. 5. Undecided, but worth exploring: Switching the Psalms to follow the Cloverdale.

We’ve been saved for a purpose. Remember your baptism and glorify Him who washes us clean in His blood freely given for sinners.

Remember Your Baptism

We shall see how it preached tomorrow, but I’m getting myself fired up writing about the baptism of Jesus. We serve a mighty king!

What a mess. — This whole thing could be avoided by standing firm on a Christian sexual ethic, discipling people into the faith, and not looking the other way at sin. I bless people — i.e. sinners — all the time. But never would I bless a gang for what’s good in their collective. Individual members? Yes. Pray God’s grace and mercy to overcome sin and to magnify what is good. Bless the gang? Heck no! — https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20240104_comunicato-fiducia-supplicans_en.html

Finished reading: Lord Sunday by Garth Nix 📚 — I must say. Not the ending I’d expected or would have hoped for. But, at least, after nearly twenty years I know how it all ended.

Saw #2 in the series sitting on my daughter’s shelf and couldn’t remember how the series ended. I looked it up and realized I never finished the series! The final books were released after college. So, after nearly 20 years, I’m finishing the series. Superior Saturday (The Keys to the Kingdom #6) by Garth Nix 📚

My favorite Christmas tradition: Sitting alone downstairs praying the morning office & waiting for the children to wake up.

A few hours early, but I’ve got my favorite Christmas album on as we get ready for church.

Five lessons in on Biblingo. Thus far I’m really enjoying it!

I’m really feeling for my faithful Roman brothers and sisters. Excepting the sudden death of the Pope and his quick replacement by an orthodox bishop, I just don’t see a way out of this for them. — I pray the Eastern Church is already discussing ways to provide faithful Romans with a safe harbor.

Seen on my way home from church this morning. I feel like there’s a metaphor here somewhere.

Then Paul stood in the midst of the lights and decorations in the city and said, “People of Suburbia, I perceive that in all things you are also religious. For as I passed by and beheld your lights and decorations, I found a blow-up with this inscription: ‘Happy Holidays’. What you therefore celebrate in ignorance, Him I declare unto you.” — Stirring for Advent

I’m not one to delve into politics or to ever sign these social media open letters, but I feel I must say at least a little something about the Middle Tennessee Christians for Justice in Palestine. This letter misuses scripture and allows populist excitement around a trendy cause to overshadow real evil. Children and babies are presently held hostage. Women and young girls were raped. Families were brutally murdered in their homes. Rockets are launched from both sides of the border. — I, too, call for peace. With my Lord, I suffer with the suffering. I weep with the weeping. But, I will not allow popularity or virtue signaling to overshadow the face of true evil. — Sin abounds. Humanity is fallen and totally depraved. Jews should repent and believe in Jesus, their Messiah. Muslims should repent and follow Jesus who is God the Son. The people of Israel have done wrong to many Palestinians. I, too, want peace. But, pretending that there is any correlation between Hamas-controlled Gaza and the children of Abraham under Egyptian enslavement is just bad theology and a poor witness of God’s love for all people.

Prayed up and going forth clinging to the cross of Christ. May God use my mouth as an instrument of his peace and glory. Amen.

I must say, one of the better ideas I’ve had. A5 booklet of prayers I frequently use. No more hastily scanning through the BCP looking for what I need!