Things have been very busy the last few months, with drastically, rapidly changing plans and developments in various ministries and what have you, but those are all stories for other blogs. I'm going to try to get back into a regular posting schedule here and someday maybe even finish this giant book that's been keeping both my soul and my coffee table so stable all these years.
There will be a few changes from the last round of posts though. For starters, no more of this trying to post every day. The reading schedule is doable, but trying to summarize and comment on another passage every day can quickly get really shallow or really sloppy, and sometimes both. With everything else I'm working on, I think it will be very doable to shoot for one post per week, maybe two when I'm overcome with the spirit.
Posting less often means that my system of numbering posts according to how many days it's been from the begining almost completely meaningless, so that's going to have to change. Call me obsessive, but I just like it when things are numbered, so I'm still going to keep posting a number before each post, but they're not going to mean quite the same thing. Actually I guess the only difference is that I'm just not going to write the word day in front of them anymore. That should be pretty easy to get used to.
In the first chapter of 2 Chronicles, David is dead and Solomon is the new king of Israel. He goes to the tent of meeting and makes a huge sacrifice to the Lord. When God appears to him that night and asks him what he wants, Solomon requests the knowledge and wisdom to rule well. God considers this a very classy request since Solomon could have used this opportunity to increase his own holdings, which is the sort of request we've seen from most people to date. God grants Solomon's wish and also grants him all the riches and power that he could have asked for but didn't. Afterword, Solomon had a lot of nice things imported from other places and the economy of Jerusalem thrived.
This is more or less unrelated, but bear with me. We always write the titles of books like 1 and 2 Kings and Chronicals and John and so forth with numerals in the titles, but when we say them out loud, we say first and second. So how would these books be alphabetized? Is 1 Kings under F or in that weird section off to the side where you find books that start with numbers and symbols? Most lists of Bible books just omit the numbers and treat the sets as complete books just broken into parts, like the last two Harry Potter Movies, which I suppose is exactly what they are. I suppose it doesn't matter much either way, but this is just a warm-up question anyway. We'll get into some more controversial stuff later. Promise.
There will be a few changes from the last round of posts though. For starters, no more of this trying to post every day. The reading schedule is doable, but trying to summarize and comment on another passage every day can quickly get really shallow or really sloppy, and sometimes both. With everything else I'm working on, I think it will be very doable to shoot for one post per week, maybe two when I'm overcome with the spirit.
Posting less often means that my system of numbering posts according to how many days it's been from the begining almost completely meaningless, so that's going to have to change. Call me obsessive, but I just like it when things are numbered, so I'm still going to keep posting a number before each post, but they're not going to mean quite the same thing. Actually I guess the only difference is that I'm just not going to write the word day in front of them anymore. That should be pretty easy to get used to.
In the first chapter of 2 Chronicles, David is dead and Solomon is the new king of Israel. He goes to the tent of meeting and makes a huge sacrifice to the Lord. When God appears to him that night and asks him what he wants, Solomon requests the knowledge and wisdom to rule well. God considers this a very classy request since Solomon could have used this opportunity to increase his own holdings, which is the sort of request we've seen from most people to date. God grants Solomon's wish and also grants him all the riches and power that he could have asked for but didn't. Afterword, Solomon had a lot of nice things imported from other places and the economy of Jerusalem thrived.
This is more or less unrelated, but bear with me. We always write the titles of books like 1 and 2 Kings and Chronicals and John and so forth with numerals in the titles, but when we say them out loud, we say first and second. So how would these books be alphabetized? Is 1 Kings under F or in that weird section off to the side where you find books that start with numbers and symbols? Most lists of Bible books just omit the numbers and treat the sets as complete books just broken into parts, like the last two Harry Potter Movies, which I suppose is exactly what they are. I suppose it doesn't matter much either way, but this is just a warm-up question anyway. We'll get into some more controversial stuff later. Promise.
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