Musings and Updates (6/22/2022)

A Few Updates

Thanks to all of you listening to the Blessed Hope Podcast. Season One (my niche exposition of Galatians) is doing much better than I anticipated. Thanks too to those of you who gave me five-star reviews and comments! Please keep `em coming! The more reviews the easier it is to find and subscribe to the podcast.
Lord willing, I’ll have a free gift for those of you who make it through all fourteen episodes of Season One. Details to come once the entire first season is posted on the various podcast feeds. If you can stand me for fourteen hours, you ought to get something for your efforts. Watch for updates.
Also, watch for updates on Season Two, which will be devoted to Paul’s Thessalonian Letters. Lots of Eschatology! Coming in the Fall, Lord Willing.
The annual summer slowdown at the Riddleblog is drawing near. I retired from Christ Reformed Church at the end of 2020, and then took up the role of visiting professor at Westminster Seminary California in February of 2021, teaching a class or two each semester since. With Covid disrupting travel, I and my missus have not had a break since I retired. So . . . a break is coming. The mountains are calling . . .
The move from the old Riddleblog to this new version is nearly complete. If you want any of the stuff posted on the old blog, get it now. Sermon texts on the old Riddleblog (in PDF) will eventually move to the Christ Reformed website archives (and perhaps here too).
I’m doing some editing and updates of the blog. A couple of new tabs are in the works to make finding things more accessible.

Now for Some “Musings”

This looks like a must buy! Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms: A Reader's Edition. The volume includes the Ecumenical Creeds, the Three Forms of Unity, the Westminster Standards, the Thirty-Nine Articles, the London Baptist Confession, and the Augsburg Confession.

Huldrych Zwingli is the least known and possibly the least liked of the Reformers. Here’s a review of a new biography from: Bruce Gordon: "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet"
I want to grow up to be Czar! No, NATO is not why Putin "Invaded” Ukraine
One of our best sources of information about the ancients — coprolites (fossilized poop): You Are What You Ate
A strong biblical case! Charles Lee Irons: Pastoral Accommodation of Same Sex Relationships: A Critique in Light of 1 Corinthians 5-6
On the intermediate state: Riddlebarger: What Happens When You Die?
A great YouTube video: R. C. Sproul on the Rapture
If you use or prefer the term “Latinx” just stop!
The Yankees are currently 50-18 and running away with the American League East. But will that be the case going into the Fall?
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