Posts Tagged ‘Language’
Book Review: Greek For Life
Reviewed by Wally Morris Benjamin L. Merkle and Robert L. Plummer: Greek For Life: Stategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving New Testament Greek (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic), 2017 My undergraduate college study was at the University of Georgia where I majored in Political Science, intending to go to law school, become a lawyer in south…
Read MoreChristian Swearing
George Stiekes Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good TO THE USE OF EDIFYING, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. Ephesians 4:29 Have you ever looked up the origins of some of the expressions that many Christians (perhaps you) use all the time?
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web: Dec 21, 2012
Two miscellaneous items of interest: How the internet is changing language “There are now thought to be some 4.5 billion web pages worldwide. And with half the population of China now on line, most of them are written in Chinese. “Still, some linguists predict that within 10 years English will dominate the internet – but…
Read MoreWhen the Court Confirmed the Bible’s Demand
by David Cummins This article first appeared in FrontLine • May/June 1999. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. The neighbors bristled to see the first Asian family move into the community. Though the mother appeared to be a young girl, she carried the little infant with all the tenderness of a seasoned mother. With…
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