Pick a Book Beside You Game

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Brother David

Page 59 of Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern Texts - an excerpt from the Epic of Gilgamesh:

On the road from which there is no way back,
To the house wherein the dwellers are bereft of light,
Where dust is their fare and clay is their food,
They are clothed like birds, with wings for garments,
And see no light, residing in darkness,
In the House of Dust, which I entered,
I looked at rulers, their crowns were put away;
I saw princes, those born to the crown,
Who had ruled the land from the days of yore.
These doubles of Anu and Enlil were serving meat roasts;
They were serving bake meat and pouring cool water from the waterskins.

Why am I not surprised!

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Brother David

I bet you were a killer writing sonnets to the ladies back in the day, John!

[Fiyahstarter]

"Rayford was frantic. He forgot any pretense of doing anything but sitting there, and he stared straight ahead into the late afternoon sky... He heard Carpathia's aide: "Well, of all the ----"

"What?" Carpathia said.

"I'm trying to get this Williams character on the line for you, and he's told his girl there to take a number."

It was all Rayford could do to keep from calling Buck again, himself, knowing for sure now that he was at the Chicago office. But if someone told Carpathia Buck couldn't talk to him because he was on with Rayford Steele, that would be disastrous. He heard Carpathia's reassuring voice again. "Just give him the number, my friend. I trust this young man. He is a brilliant journalist and would not keep me waiting without good reason..."

YOU NAME THE BOOK!

[Esther]

We have looked at the major strategies the enemy uses to draw people away from God and to serve his evil ends. In this chapter, I want to discuss various spiritual strongholds though which the enemy dominates and oppresses people. We must learn to recognize them for what they are so that we can effectively combat them.

From A Divine Revelation of Spiritual Warfare

[mizpeh]

In summary, as grounded in the New Testament, a social model of the Trinity is that in which the one divine Being eternally exists as three distinct centers of consciousness, wholly equal in nature, genuinely personal in relationships, and each mutually indwelling the other. Today most theologians have abandoned phrases such as Barth's three divine "modes of being" or Rahner's " manner of subsistenence, " because they prove inadequate to describe the complex, vivid relationships between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of a nuanced social model.

Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective

[mizpeh]

Finally, we offer only a brief mention of Matthew 28:19, a verse that we shall consider in some detail in chapter 16. Briefly, the triune baptismal formula in this verse does not reflect the earliest baptismal practice of the church; this will be demonstrated both biblically and historically. We would be reticent to suggest that this text is merely a variant tradition of the Matthean school, say, or that it was introduced as a later addition to the Biblical text. Rather, Matthew 28:19 should be understood as the same kind of Hebraism as suggested above by Dahl, the repetition being offered for emphasis. Further, it is the same sort of Hebraism that occurs in 1 Corinthians 12:4-6: a repetition for emphasis.

A Oneness Pentecostal Theology by David Norris, PhD

[mizpeh]

Because many of the ways and means they use and insist upon for this end were never appointed of God for that purpose. (Now, there is nothing in religion that has any efficacy for compassing an end, but it has it from God's appointment of it to that purpose.) Such as these are their rough garments, their vows, penances, disciplines, their course of monastical life, and the likes concerning all which God will say, "Who has required these things at your hand?" [Isa. 1:12] and, "In vain do you worship me, teaching for doctrines the traditions of men" [Matt. 15:9]. Of the same nature are sundry self-vexations insisted on by others.

The Mortification of Sin in Believers by John Owen

These are the three books to the right of me on my desk. The ones near my bed are a little more interesting.

[mizpeh]

The three books that I have as tabs on my Google chrome browser at the moment:

The story of Christian Theology http://books.google.com/books?id=3QH...DaCDEysfvy&sig

Sense and Nonsense about Angels and Demons http://books.google.com/books?id=cdc...age&q=&f=false

As A Man Thinketh http://jamesallen.wwwhubs.com/think.htm

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Fiyahstarter

"Rayford was frantic. He forgot any pretense of doing anything but sitting there, and he stared straight ahead into the late afternoon sky... He heard Carpathia's aide: "Well, of all the ----"

"What?" Carpathia said.

"I'm trying to get this Williams character on the line for you, and he's told his girl there to take a number."

It was all Rayford could do to keep from calling Buck again, himself, knowing for sure now that he was at the Chicago office. But if someone told Carpathia Buck couldn't talk to him because he was on with Rayford Steele, that would be disastrous. He heard Carpathia's reassuring voice again. "Just give him the number, my friend. I trust this young man. He is a brilliant journalist and would not keep me waiting without good reason..."

YOU NAME THE BOOK!

Sounds like Left Behind....

[*AQuietPlace*]

I'm incredibly spiritual. The book beside me is my Bible.

Exodus 17 is on page 59.