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Byhenry July 21, 2010

I discuss why I think we should pay attention on the World Prayr blog today.

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Psalm 51 in The Voice
Byhenry July 31, 2012
I’ve been including The Voice Bible in my lectionary reading for the last couple of weeks. My early impression was that it was fairly good as a paraphrase, though the italics, while fairly consistent, were a bit distracting. I thought they were unnecessary. I was wrong. I have yet to do any sort of objective…
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Psalm 119:175 – Let Me Live
Byhenry May 17, 2025May 17, 2025
The Psalm’s praise and prayer is encapsulated in this verse and again in the next. Give me life, let your decisions help me!
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The Myth of the Absent Husband
Byhenry February 7, 2008
The story of the temptation and fall (Genesis 3:1-7) is one of the stories that sustains some complentarians and advocates of male leadership and authority. I use “myth” here in the partial technical sense of a story that explains and reinforces a cultural norm. In particular, people point out that Eve was taken in by…
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Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament – Isaiah 7:14 and Hosea 11:1
Byhenry December 8, 2009
With a recent flurry of posts regarding the way in which the Old Testament is used in the New, at least peripherally, I wanted to call attention to one written from a different perspective. The post is Isaiah 7, Nativity, and the Theotokos, written by Mark Olson, who speaks from an Orthodox perspective. He discusses…
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Starting a Study of Proverbs
Byhenry August 2, 2025
The Sunday School class I co-teach is beginning a study of Proverbs. I’m not leading this one. I’m relaxing a bit, I hope. But I have indicated I’ll do a bit of blogging on the material. The assignment before the beginning of the study tomorrow was to read introductions to the book, both from the…
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A Cause – Lamentations 1:5
Byhenry March 13, 2026
Sometimes sorrow and mourning is the most positive thing you can do.
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