James's Weblog

Happy New Year, everybody!

May I take this opportunity to present to you a new website, Edible Words.

Neil Robbie and I have spent a year or so working on this. It’s not taken a year because it has been an enormous project – more because we’ve been fitting it into the time we can carve out from our other commitments. It is now at the stage where we think it is ready to roll out, go live, launch etc.

“But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.” (Psalm 1:2)

“The law of God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.” (Psalm 37:31)

“I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” (Psalm 119:11)

Thanks, Neil Robbie, for joining the world of bloggers, even if you only post your starter post. A sobering, but fantastically helpful, quotation from Thomas Boston on how to tell when our mourning for sin might be spurious rather than real and heart-felt.

I look forward to reading more of Neil’s jottings.

Doing some work on the birth narrative in Matthew at the moment, and enjoying the recently published commentary on Matthew by R T France.

He has a brilliant (if long) paragraph arguing that Matthew was not a poor Old Testament handler at all, but knew exactly what he was doing. So brilliant, it’s worth quoting in full (from page 45)