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As I read I might post some bible verses that stand out to me as interesting. Last night it was this one:

Chapter 12

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:


This stood out to me as a being a command to take up the Way. A command to Work. You have to leave your old life behind and go to the land that God will show you. Roughly speaking "to get thee out of thy country" means to leave your ordinary states, the state that you live in all the time, your level of being. "To leave thy kindred" again means to leave the ordinary cycle of states and many I's. To leave your father's house really means to leave the devil, as for fallen man that is his house. You have to be willing to let all that go, to leave it, and go to a new country.

Simon of Australia

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It's a great title, by the way. - The Puritan

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The title is interesting, I think. I played with a few ideas but then this one just shouted out at me. It may not have occurred to me, but ...

I awoke this morning from what seemed like a dream drenched night of sleep. The usual story, I was losing the greater part before my eyes had opened. I remember this, seemingly important fragment:

I am in my living room hurriedly packing a bag to go somewhere. It isn't anywhere important, nor will I be away for any great length of time. I have my camera and lenses pretty much already filling the bag. I then grab this big hardback edition of Gail Riplinger's In Awe of Thy Word. Some friends are sat on the sofa observing all of this. They seem utterly bemused that I am trying to cram this large book into an already bulging bag. Their expressions only add emphasis to my understanding that I
will only be gone a few hours. Yet somehow, it is imperative in my mind that I have this book with me. I am even thinking it odd, like you would have the Holy Bible first - yet there is something so important to understanding the Bible in this book that I cannot be separate from it for any time at all.

Paul of England

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I think the realization, which Tyndale and those guys had, that the Bible is contained in itself is a powerful realization. Riplinger, in her brave innocence and also in her dogged researching, presents it in that book. Even if just pieces and traces, it's enough.

There is power in being concentrated. In Elizabethan times they could concentrate on a handful of powerful influences and have all they needed. - The Puritan