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Archive Authors Eric Parker Nota Bene Reformed Irenicism

Don’t Forget to Bless the Food

Here in the South we always bless our food before we eat. Heck, we don’t just bless food, we bless everything. We bless you when you sneeze. We bless your day when we see you, and we even hang up kitschy signs in our homes to “bless this mess.” So, it’s part of our cultural […]

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Archive Nota Bene Steven Wedgeworth

Calvin: Pastors Are Like Blind Isaac

Calvin’s commentary on Genesis 27 is full of intriguing observations, and I would like to give a more full treatment of them at a later time. But for now, this part was too good to pass up. Explaining how it is that God would use Isaac’s blindness and ignorance to transmit the blessing of the […]