tending the garden

A passing comment, arising after a sermon on 1 Cor 7, ‘the time is short …’:
Time is the only physical thing we can give to our souls.
(And the gift we give least often.)
True? false? debatable?
[Meanwhile, I'm catching a train northwards tomorrow lunchtime and web access is unlikely until the start of next week.]

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justly stressed

Somebody reached this blog by searching for, “Is the word “just” a stressed syllable?”
No doubt they’re long gone, but what a question!
Stress is inherently relational: you can only identify something as stressed in comparison to something else.
When a word is monosyllabic, there is no question about where its lexical stress is located: on the only [...]

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beyond the reach of mercy

Spotted recently, in a certain denominational magazine – a sermon by William Trail, minister of the Free Tron Church in Glasgow after the Disruption, where he discusses obstacles which a person might imagine in the way of believing, or being forgiven. Just thought it fits with a couple of earlier posts, here and here.
“Perhaps the [...]

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connections

In Psalm 111, it says, the Lord “has made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious, and full of compassion.”
A question:
What is the link between the two statements? Does the psalmist exclaim over the grace of the Lord as an effect of remembering the Lord’s works? Or is it because the Lord [...]

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accessing half the web

Well, the new router has arrived and has solved some of our internet problems, although frustratingly bringing new ones into the equation too. It’s failing to load up some sites properly – I can get Bloglines, Google, WordPress, the BBC, but not much else (Yahoo, Facebook, Language Log, anything with blogspot in it, any help [...]

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