Nielsen’s Nook

“ Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he  ... ”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, 2 vols. [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979], 2:45

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Diagnosis: Thyroid Cancer 2010-04-24

In February I had my annual physical. Some of my friends used to make fun of me for having started having annual physicals at age 30. "Man, your healthy, physicals are for old people or unhealthy people." On the contrary, how much better help can a doctor give when they  ...

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Reflections on Hebrews 3:12-14 2008-12-19

12 Take care, brothers and sisters, so that there will not be in any of you an evil faithless heart by which to fall away from the living God, 13 but encourage one another every day as long as the day is still called Today, so that none from among  ...

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3 With Ties To U.S. Consulate Killed In Mexican City Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:52

A U.S. couple shot to death within sight of the border with their baby in their vehicle's back seat was among those killed in drug-plagued Ciudad Juarez, officials said Sunday. President Obama expressed outrage over the killings, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon promised a swift  ...
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Translations

Translation and Commentary on Hebrews 3:15-19 2009-01-10

15 as it is said:Today if you should hear[1] his voice, Do not harden your hearts as during the rebellion.[2]16 For who were those who heard and rebelled? Was it not everyone who came out from Egypt by means of Moses? 17 And with whom was he[3] angered for forty[4] years? Was it  ...

Prose & Poetry

Dante’s Warning to those in Pulpits 2007-10-04

Go forth, preach idle stories to all men,Dante, Alighieri. The Divine Comedy III: Paridiso, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds (London: Penguin Books, 2004), Canto XXIX, lines 82-145, pages  ...

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