Exalting the name of Jesus through Christian essays
By Elizabeth Prata Where are your eyes looking? What's claiming your attention? The church was the one institution whose mission depended on galvanizing attention; through its daily and weekly offices, as well as its sometimes central role in education, that is exactly what it managed to do. At the dawn of the attention industries, then, …
Continue reading Is your church a spectacle in the right way or the wrong way?
By Elizabeth Prata I've got one week left and then I go back to work. I will have had 9 weeks off. I realize that 9 weeks off, in a row no less, is an understandably wondrous gift, one that many people don't get in 4 years of working. (Please understand that I live for …
By Elizabeth Prata Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Mary White Rowlandson It's a riveting account of a Puritan woman's travail through an Indian massacre and three months' captivity, and eventual ransomed release. (1675-6). It was the time of King Philips War and the colony had gotten very bloody very quickly. …
By Elizabeth Prata Tony Reinke's last chapters of Competing Spectacles so moved me I designed this picture to stare at and better ponder its truths. The mental picture of it was so vivid before my eyes I had to draw it out. Initially I drew just the wavy line and the cross. The cross is …
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By Elizabeth Prata Bible trivia: When a name is used twice in a row it is an expression of intimacy, communicating great emotion. Abraham! Abraham! Genesis 22:11. Jacob, Jacob. Genesis 46:2. Moses, Moses! Exodus 3:4. Samuel! Samuel!1 Samuel 3:10. Martha, Martha. Luke 10:41. Simon, Simon. Luke 22:31. Jerusalem, Jerusalem Matthew 23:37. Saul, Saul. Acts 9:4 …
By Elizabeth Prata Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one …
Continue reading ‘Looking this way and that’: About that secret sin…
By Elizabeth Prata You know that Beth Moore deleted a portion of the material in the Kindle version of the book Praying God’s Word, but that deletion is more extensive than most people know. She got rid of the entire discussion on homosexuality from her chapter Overcoming Sexual Strongholds. It was 6 pages of material. …
Continue reading Beth Moore deleted half her Kindle chapter: Breaking the Social Compact
