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Growing Anticipation

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Don Merritt

Song of Songs 4 After the troubling dreams of the night, a new scene opens; maybe it isn’t a scene at all, come to think of it, for nothing is included here to set a scene. We know that the … Continue reading →

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“Reflections on Hebrews” Released

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Don Merritt

I’m releasing “Reflections on Hebrews” today as a Version 1.0. I have added a fair amount of charts and other info to the series I ran here last year, and hope to expand it into a “Big Boy” book in … Continue reading →

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Troubled Dreams

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Don Merritt

Song of Songs 3 Chapter 3 provides a significant contrast to chapters 1 and 2, and the contrast of the changing scene is so sudden that one almost has the sensation of stumbling through a portal that takes them from … Continue reading →

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Spring has Sprung

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Don Merritt

Song of Songs 2 In chapter one, we were introduced to the two lovers pining for one another. There we were on the front lawn of an old house, and now as we walk up to the porch and open … Continue reading →

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Podcast: Humble Service and Spiritual Gifts

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Don Merritt

As my Midwestern Odyssey continues, I had the opportunity to teach about humble service and spiritual gifts yesterday morning, from Romans 12:3-21. If you’d care to listen in, please click below… Listen Now  

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And So the Drama Begins

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Don Merritt

Song of Songs 1 The new NIV labels the speeches contained in this poem with the words “She” “Friends” and “He” and as they admit in their footnote, these are inferred from the grammatical construction of the Hebrew original and … Continue reading →

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Song of Songs and the Old Testament

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Don Merritt

To finish up laying the groundwork for our adventure in Song of Songs, I thought I’d write a short post on Old Testament perspective. It seems that Solomon wrote this in his youthful time, when He was very close in … Continue reading →

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Biblical Hierarchy and New Testament Thinking

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Don Merritt

Ephesians 5:22-33 There is a definite hierarchy in the Scriptures; there just isn’t any way to get away from this fact. Yet while this is a theological reality, it isn’t always popular today. In the very simplest of terms, here’s … Continue reading →

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Song of Songs: A Dilemma

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Don Merritt

  The dilemma presented by the Song of Songs has been around for a very long time. That it has been considered to be part of the Scriptures since many centuries before Christ is clear enough, and its controversial aspects … Continue reading →

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Time for Something New

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Don Merritt

While we were taking our adventure through Ecclesiastes, I was thinking about future blogging subjects; future adventures, trips and journeys, and it occurred to me that the other wisdom writings of Solomon would be a lot of fun to tour. … Continue reading →

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