31 December 2009

2009 Books I Listened To


  1. Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
  2. The Great Crash 1929 - John Galbraith
  3. Giants of Irish Literature: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
  4. From Jesus to Christianity: A History of the Early Church
  5. Upon This Rock: A History of the Papacy From Peter To John Paul II
  6. “God Wills It!”: Understanding the Crusades
  7. The Cassandra Compact: A Covert-One Novel - Robert Ludlum
  8. Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society
  9. Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam 1862
  10. Fundamental Cases: The Twentieth Century Courtroom Battles That Changed Our Nation
  11. The Murder Room - PD James
  12. The Black Tower - PD James
  13. Nerve Damage - Peter Abrahams
  14. The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Service - Andrew Meier

2009 Books I Read


  1. Kiss - Ted Dekker
  2. When I was a Kid, This was a Free Country - G. Gordon Liddy
  3. Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists - Ronald Walpole
  4. James A. Garfield - Ira Rutkow
  5. Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
  6. The Blessing Way - Tony Hillerman
  7. A Taste of Death - PD James
  8. Schaum's outline of theory and problems of statistics
  9. Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: Introduction/Bible - Norman Geisler
  10. James K. Polk - John Seigenthaler
  11. Chosen but Free - Norman Geisler
  12. The One Year Chronological Bible
  13. Saint - Ted Dekker
  14. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling
  15. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
  16. Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
  17. Black , Red & White (Trilogy) - Ted Dekker
  18. Showdown - Ted Dekker
  19. Skin - Ted Dekker
  20. The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
  21. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

30 December 2009

What does 'it' mean in Greek?

Before:
"I baptize you with water, but one is coming who will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire" - Luke 3
"You shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit" - Acts 1

After:
"As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as upon us at the beginning; God gave to them the same gift as to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ" - Acts 11
"For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body and we were made to drink of one Spirit." - 1 Corinthians 12

Between Acts 1 and Acts 11, we went from 'shall be baptized' to 'were all baptized'. IT happened, the strangest concept in all of Christianity, and probably much of the religious world.

IT - n. - Greek (c) 33 a.d.; the pouring of the Holy Spirit, a portion of the triune God, into the presence and personhood of a believing follower of God.