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  1. Deacon

    A Church Library

    Basements tend to be rather humid... a bad place to store books. I've had quite a few people drop off books... I may keep 3 or 4, the rest get piled on my give-a-way table. Rob
  2. Deacon

    A Church Library

    I’m enjoying working with LibraryThing & TinyCat. The TinyCat site is developing daily as I tag and categorize the books. I even added the church’s logo this morning. So far I haven’t had to pay for it but as soon as I go public with it there will be a small charge ($6-8 dollars a month). I’ve...
  3. Deacon

    anyone familiar with Rev Abram Gillette and the Lincoln Assassinations? Incredible Story!

    Reminiscences Of The Life And Labor Of A. D. Gillette By His Friends And Associates: Horatio Gates Jones, Thomas Armitage, R. S. MacArthur, And George W. Samson [Amazon link] Paperback Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kessinger Publishing Publication date: ‎ September 10, 2010 ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1162995203 ISBN-13...
  4. Deacon

    A Church Library

    One of my field trips was to scout out the local library... looking for ideas. Unfortunately, local libraries (even here in the Bible Belt) are focused on things antithetical to godly living. MY CHURCH LIBRARY PHILOSOPHY parallels the pastor's: To cultivate a space of wisdom, exploration, and...
  5. Deacon

    A Church Library

    Does your church have a library? How is it organized? Who runs or maintains it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I recently joined a congregation and was given the responsibility of organizing their library of about 2000 books. It's probably been 10 years since anyone took an interest in the books...
  6. Deacon

    Vote to bar churches with women pastors fails again at SBC Annual Meeting

    I have my comfort zone and I have my biblically-based opinion, but I wouldn't force another church body to agree with me. It's a grey area for me. I can understand those churches that support the option of women as ministers of the faith. I'm fairly well read in the topic; In fact, I've got 7...
  7. Deacon

    2 Kings 25:3 - inspired italic

    “But thou art the same...” (Psalm 102:27a, AV 1873) “וְאַתָּה־ה֑וּא” (Psalm 102:28, BHS OT) Transliterated: "w attah hu" hu , is an undifferentiated pronoun (it can be, he, she or it) Examples: *Genesis 2:19 "that was its name" (ESV) or "that was the name" (AV) *Genesis 3:20 "she [Eve] became"...
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