Anyway, she provided this link to pdf about what it meant in the OT when the word "saved" came up -- and what do you know: the OT, apparently, never meant soteriological salvation when it said "saved", either. So when Ps 18 says, "The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold," and from that we sing, "A Mi-Tee FO-o-tress i-is Our God! A Bulwark Ne-ver fa-a-ay-ling!" nobody is actually talking about salvation.
That con-sarned Luther and his theological hyjinx! How shall we ever be rid of him and them?
You think about that briefly, and then shake it off and be with God's people in God's house on His day. I'm narrating our Christmas cantata (that's an uptown way to say, "we're gonna sing real good to recorded fiddle playin'") on Sunday -- God willing it will bless the hearers.
UPDATED: ah, shoot. Read this link too.
Friday, December 08, 2006
The Friday Post this week
OK: usually we have the next part of the Christmas series, or some other exhortation for you faithful readers to go into the weekend preparing yourselves for worship and the word.
As you undoubtedly noticed, I like comics. I wouldn't call myself a "fan boy" because I don't give a flying FOOM what they are worth. That said, almost all the images on my blog are scanned from comics I own -- so they are scanned from comics I own and are used under what I assume is 
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