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© 2010, Scott Branyan
February 11, 2010
Master Naturalist Classes
I’m participating in the Northwest Arkansas Master Naturalist program this spring. The classes are a great continuing education opportunity and are proving valuable to my book research. The program also involves volunteer hours in the community. I am looking forward to doing some presentations, working on trails and learning more about the natural area around Hobbes State Park and the upper White River. If things go smoothly, I’ll be a Master Naturalist in May.
© 2010, Scott Branyan
December 23, 2008
Merry Christmas
My wife Sharon handed me Mannheim Steamroller’s Morning Frost CD earlier this week. I started listening to it today. It seems an appropriate title with all the cold weather we’ve had this year. The CD is a collection of rehashed numbers mostly but still fun.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the memories of the best of Christmases past. Of course, being an evangelical, I don’t celebrate a mass of Christ. His atonement is finished with eternal results. He is risen. He is coming again as a resurrected Warrior King. He will subdue kings and kingdoms and install righteousness on the earth. So I do celebrate the Advent of Christ—only I anticipate his Second Advent. I guess I like some of the Renaissance themes in Christmas because they capture the idea of Christ as the coming King—albeit an infant one. Soon, he will come to reign indeed (Revelation 11:5).
Maranatha!
© 2008, Scott Branyan
December 5, 2008
Exodus Study Finished for the Year
We had our last Bible class for the year, December 2. We will resume, Lord willing, January 13th.
I was going through an old tattered wide margin reference Bible I am discarding. It had a few good notes in it I included in the blog posts. These are a few minor additional notes but thought you might want to know they have been added. The posts which have been updated are:
- Gen 3:1-24
- Gen 4:1-26
- Gen 14:1-24
- Gen 20:1-18
- Gen 21
- Gen 25:1-18
- Exodus 4:18-31
My Bible has a lot of notes on the Psalms and the Epistles from my seminary days, and I will be copying these into BibleWorks chapter notes before I toss it. One more reason to use one of the better Bible software programs, as you may go through several Bibles in your life time–I’ve always been free with writing in my Bible–but I hate to lose a life-time of notes and observations.
If you do not have BibleWorks, you can do the same by just starting a Word document for each section, book or chapter of the Bible. As it enlarges, you can subdivide the file into smaller units.
I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. Remember Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 2:8).
Peace.
© 2008, Scott Branyan
November 27, 2008
King Tut Exhibit in Dallas
Just in time for our study in Exodus, the King Tut Exhibit opened in Dallas Oct. 3rd. It will run through May 15, 2009. This is a good opportunity to pick up some background understanding for the setting in the books of Genesis and Exodus.
© 2008, Scott Branyan
October 6, 2008
Exodus Study Starts October 7th, 2008
We have our first class on the Book of Exodus tomorrow night. I am looking forward to launching into another exposition. Exodus introduces so many new and theologically important items in God’s revelation to us. For instance, we have the Passover which is a type of Christ (1 Corinthians 5:7); we have Israel constituted a nation; and we have the giving of the Law, the tabernacle, priesthood and its ministry. Of course, we also have God’s deliverance of Israel from bondage through plagues and passover. In that section we see God hardening Pharaoh’s heart; and the “contest” between God and Pharaoh becomes an important lesson on election in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (9:14-18).
We also are introduced to Moses, Aaron and Joshua–three very important persons in the Bible. God’s name Yahveh is expounded in Exodus, and the concept of the “prophet” being God’s mouthpiece is explained and illustrated. One can see then how vital an understanding of Exodus is to the rest of scripture and especially the New Testament.
Follow along with us as we study, and if you find yourself in Northwest Arkansas some Tuesday evening, feel free to drop in and join us.
I also want to mention another resource. One of my former professors, Dr. Thomas L. Constable, has study notes for the Bible available at: http://www.soniclight.com/constable/notes.htm
© 2008, Scott Branyan
September 27, 2008
Genesis Study Is Complete
The completion of the notes on the Book of Genesis is a milestone for me. I’ve enjoyed this study and putting it all together as a whole. I also wish to thank those of you who endured the entire class. I trust we have grown together in the faith under the Spirit’s tutelage. Pressing onward for Christ …
© 2008, Scott Branyan
December 26, 2007
More on Comments
The registration process for comments is now working, and the previous post on comments has been revised.
© 2007, Scott Branyan
December 4, 2007
2007 Photo Gallery Up on flyflinger.com
Posted the gallery yesterday. I used Adobe Lightroom to make this one. Simple process. Makes a nice gallery, but not many features.
I hope to put together a database gallery in 2008 which will have search features of titles and captions and move towards a stock image gallery on this site. I am still learning about database management in the Dreamweaver tutorial, however. But this is part of the fun.
© 2007, Scott Branyan
November 28, 2007
What Is a Snippet?
You may occasionally run across posts with the term “Snippet” in the title. A snippet is a “a small piece snipped off of the larger whole; a small bit, or fragment.” I’ll begin by posting some ”snippets” of introductory material on the book of Genesis or the Old Testament in The Bible Brief category. These snippets consist of information to be used in charts or for reference in the Bible exposition class.
© 2007 Scott Branyan