The apostle John...merely a simple fisherman right?  Not a lot of formal education or sophisticated literary training presumably.  Known for writing the "baby Greek" beloved of all first-year Greek students.  Yet beneath the apparent simplicity of his vocabularly, a complex, interwoven construction of deep ideas.

The question at hand, can you use the same word to mean two different things in the same verse...?

How tall was David?  All the authoritative flannelgraphs I have seen have him looking rather slight and runty.    But when reading through 1^st Samuel recently, I started thinking (which would account for the aroma of burning).

Charlie recently offered a posting on the Trinity (don't miss Tom's comment to that post either).  I had been working on one concerning practical ways of applying the Trinity so that follows below.  Generally, the Trinity is considered one of the more (perhaps, most) esoteric and abstract Christian doctrines.  To test the relationship between doctrine and practice, we might as well see what, if any, practical difference the doctrine of the Trinity might make in our lives.  Besides, in one of Millard Erickson’s books (it was on the Trinity), he comments that Kant thought the Trinity the epitome of meaningless, impractical Christian doctrine – and who can resist giving it to a hoity-toity philosopher who can’t possibly respond or find out where I live?

"God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble." 

This is a NT quotation of Proverbs 3:34 that is familiar to many of us.  Recently, as I doing some work in James, I noticed a curious relationship that had not previously caught my notice.  James quotes the OT verse in 4:6 in connection with humility and follows that up with the admonition to "resist the devil."  Over in 1 Peter 5, Peter too quotes the verse and [cue dramtic music] subsequently refers to resisting the devil.  What is going on?

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