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Share/Bookmark Another Exciting Week I’m excited with the progress this week. Several big pieces of PTP are starting to move into place. Soon you will be seeing the final and official schedule instead of just the tentative one for Polishing the Pulpit. I just checked the registration database and 714 people have registered for PTP… [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkBig News For Polishing the Pulpit (PTP) 2013 The last week has produced several big announcements for PTP 2013. With over 600 people already registered, and what will be an estimated crowd of 3000 people, PTP 2013 is shaping up to be the biggest and best ever. PTP Schedule Released With over 700 sessions (officially 24% more… [Continue Reading]
Share/Bookmark Sotheby’s Auction of Most Valuable Book Most agree that the first book printed in North America was the Bay Psalm Book. Printed in 1636, they translated the Psalms into English. They were hoping for a translation that reflected the original Hebrew text more closely than the King James Version. They also wanted the Psalms… [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkIn part one of this series we examined the ancient world’s view of medical science and in part two we looked at food laws. Part three we will examine the sex laws in the Bible, how they differed from surrounding cultures, and how they protected God’s people from a variety of problems. Limits on Sexual… [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkWhen studying the plan of salvation, you really need to start with the condition of man. In order to hear the good news, you must first know the bad news. In the next section of Romans, Paul lays out the state that all of mankind is in. Man’s sinful state has separated him from God… [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkIn Kurt Vonnegut’s book Timequake, people are forced to repeat their actions, right or wrong, because of an event that occurred on the whole earth. After the timequake is over they continue to be apathetic in their choices and cannot seem to snap out of it except for one man. This man is famously quoted, trying to… [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkMy new year’s resolution is to get back to posting on here. The folder of things I would like to put on BibleNest is getting pretty thick, but my time is getting thin. I’ve decided to start with posting my notes from the college class on Romans. These were requested about two months ago, but… [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkWe are 15 days away and I am excited. Any of you who are reading this…you should be excited too. This is going to be so cool. Now, originally I had wanted to update this behind the scenes section every few weeks to keep you excited about PTP. Well, it has been 71 days since… [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkWith only 100 days left until PTP (REGISTER NOW!) I have a question for you. Do you remember that scene at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie where “top men” are examining the ark? In reality, it is boxed up and taken to what seems to be an endless warehouse for safe keeping…. [Continue Reading]
Share/BookmarkTabernacle Starts to Come Together Okay, I know…I know, I haven’t updated the blog in 80 days. In that time Jules Verne could have gone around the world in a balloon. I feel bad about it, but I wanted you all to know that I have been working on other projects; exciting projects, and now… [Continue Reading]
