WHAT'S NEW ON THE "NEW PAGE"?
Wednesday, 231011
Quoted quotes, from How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark:
"If you can't annoy somebody, said the British novelist Kingsley Amis, "there is little point in writing."
"When all else fails," said the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, "men turn to reason."
Thursday, 230922
The article, The Servants and the Servant Compared, from The Remnant, #111-30-6, is now posted under the Articles tab. Edited a little for clarification, for this website's format, and for the correction of one typo I found in the paper publication.
FYI: The paper's issue number reads as follows:
111: This is the 111th issue I've published since receiving the editorship in 1998.
30: The Volume number; to date, I have published 30 6-issue volumes.
6: This is the issue number, being the last issue of Volume 30.
As the Lord blesses us to continue, Lord willing, the next issue will be numbered 112-31-1.
Quoted quotes, from How to Write Short by Roy Peter Clark:
"If you can't annoy somebody, said the British novelist Kingsley Amis, "there is little point in writing."
"When all else fails," said the Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, "men turn to reason."
Thursday, 230922
The article, The Servants and the Servant Compared, from The Remnant, #111-30-6, is now posted under the Articles tab. Edited a little for clarification, for this website's format, and for the correction of one typo I found in the paper publication.
FYI: The paper's issue number reads as follows:
111: This is the 111th issue I've published since receiving the editorship in 1998.
30: The Volume number; to date, I have published 30 6-issue volumes.
6: This is the issue number, being the last issue of Volume 30.
As the Lord blesses us to continue, Lord willing, the next issue will be numbered 112-31-1.
Sunday, 230730
I have just added an article entitled THIS AND THAT, in three parts, based on the apostle Peter's sermon recorded in Acts 2. All three Parts are now posted.
This series was originally published in The Remnant in 2007. It is posted here for the benefit of the many new readers who have been made part of our readership since it was first printed.--CC
This series was originally published in The Remnant in 2007. It is posted here for the benefit of the many new readers who have been made part of our readership since it was first printed.--CC
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Saturday, 230520
A. This “New Page” will contain new information about new articles and updates on the Grace Remnant site. The newest items posted here will be at the top of the list, so you won’t need to scroll down, down, down, and down, and down.
The older notes will automatically move down.
Check the New Page tab often, please. The topmost note will quickly let YOU know of anything new. Consider it your first stop, your “Go To” tab.
Background comments may sometimes be added here about some of the articles or other happenings; maybe announcements of church meetings, dates, locations, and the like. This New Page may turn into a mini-blog. Who knows?
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B. NO LOGIN OR PASSWORD REQUIRED to access the Grace Remnant website, and we don't try to track you.
Ignore the “Log in” button in the lower right part of our home page. No one has to sign in every time you visit us. You have enough to do without having to remember another login routine and password for Grace Remnant.
With free access to our articles and pages, welcome to our site!
The older notes will automatically move down.
Check the New Page tab often, please. The topmost note will quickly let YOU know of anything new. Consider it your first stop, your “Go To” tab.
Background comments may sometimes be added here about some of the articles or other happenings; maybe announcements of church meetings, dates, locations, and the like. This New Page may turn into a mini-blog. Who knows?
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B. NO LOGIN OR PASSWORD REQUIRED to access the Grace Remnant website, and we don't try to track you.
Ignore the “Log in” button in the lower right part of our home page. No one has to sign in every time you visit us. You have enough to do without having to remember another login routine and password for Grace Remnant.
With free access to our articles and pages, welcome to our site!
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C. EMAILS: For now, I have no way to receive emails and/or comments directly on the Grace Remnant website.
Send e-mails to: 2remnant@pm.me
*D. DATE FORMAT:
Instead of “July 4, 1776” or "4 July, 1776” I usually use the YYYYMMDD format, which comes our as 17760704. Why? Because on a spreadsheet, when rows are sorted by the date column, low to high, by using this format everything will be in correct chronological order, top down, oldest to newest. Even B.C. dates, such as March 14, 606 B.C. (-6060314). Begin any date that is Before Christ (B.C.) with a MINUS SIGN. -06060314 starting with a MINUS sign will still be in chronological order.
You can put thousands of dates on a spreadsheet in any order, and one sort will put them in their exactly correct order. This way you can sort every date from Adam to today, no problem.
For our current millennium (21st century), I usually use just the last two digits of the current year (23) as in 230520 (20 May 2023). Most of my current notes will be this shorter version. For 1999 and earlier the longer version must be used to avoid confusing the centuries!
Clear as mud? It’s quite easy when you get the hang of it.
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E. ABOUT THE ARTICLES:
I don’t write much, if ever, about my own personal “experience”; sometimes, but rarely. My deepest desire is “…yet not I, but Christ… (Galatians 2.20).”
My articles are usually quite long, I know. They are not for the faint of heart or for those who are seeking a one-minute quickie of a “daily devotional.” These are studies in the Scriptures, meant to be studied. I have tried, as the Lord has enabled me, to cover a subject as thoroughly as I could at the time. One can rarely do Bible subjects justice in 500-word mini-essays.
(I do reserve the right to write shorter pieces if it works out that way.)
Doctrine, specifically the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ, is all-important, foundational, underlying all biblical truth. Paul puts doctrine first of all in the functions of Scripture: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
(1) for doctrine,
(2) for reproof,
(3) for correction,
(4) for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3.16)”;
In that order. You don't just jump in there and start telling people what or what not to do.
Doctrine first, and if there is any reproof, correction, or instruction in righteousness, it must follow based on the doctrine!
Further: “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles'
(1) doctrine and
(2) fellowship [in that order!], and
(3) in breaking of bread, and
(4) in prayers (Acts 2.42).”
If there is not doctrinal unity, there can be no fellowship—or to put it another perhaps more charitable way, our fellowship will be in direct proportion to our unity in the doctrine of Christ Jesus our Savior.
I have been the editor of The Remnant magazine for twenty-five years, having begun in the summer of 1998. The length of most of my past articles has been governed by the 20-page limit of the printed Remnant magazine.
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F. Maybe you noticed: I use asterisks (*) as subject sorters.
Between asterisks you will find something like one oversized 3x5 index card on some particular subject.
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You can put thousands of dates on a spreadsheet in any order, and one sort will put them in their exactly correct order. This way you can sort every date from Adam to today, no problem.
For our current millennium (21st century), I usually use just the last two digits of the current year (23) as in 230520 (20 May 2023). Most of my current notes will be this shorter version. For 1999 and earlier the longer version must be used to avoid confusing the centuries!
Clear as mud? It’s quite easy when you get the hang of it.
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E. ABOUT THE ARTICLES:
I don’t write much, if ever, about my own personal “experience”; sometimes, but rarely. My deepest desire is “…yet not I, but Christ… (Galatians 2.20).”
My articles are usually quite long, I know. They are not for the faint of heart or for those who are seeking a one-minute quickie of a “daily devotional.” These are studies in the Scriptures, meant to be studied. I have tried, as the Lord has enabled me, to cover a subject as thoroughly as I could at the time. One can rarely do Bible subjects justice in 500-word mini-essays.
(I do reserve the right to write shorter pieces if it works out that way.)
Doctrine, specifically the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ, is all-important, foundational, underlying all biblical truth. Paul puts doctrine first of all in the functions of Scripture: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
(1) for doctrine,
(2) for reproof,
(3) for correction,
(4) for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3.16)”;
In that order. You don't just jump in there and start telling people what or what not to do.
Doctrine first, and if there is any reproof, correction, or instruction in righteousness, it must follow based on the doctrine!
Further: “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles'
(1) doctrine and
(2) fellowship [in that order!], and
(3) in breaking of bread, and
(4) in prayers (Acts 2.42).”
If there is not doctrinal unity, there can be no fellowship—or to put it another perhaps more charitable way, our fellowship will be in direct proportion to our unity in the doctrine of Christ Jesus our Savior.
I have been the editor of The Remnant magazine for twenty-five years, having begun in the summer of 1998. The length of most of my past articles has been governed by the 20-page limit of the printed Remnant magazine.
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F. Maybe you noticed: I use asterisks (*) as subject sorters.
Between asterisks you will find something like one oversized 3x5 index card on some particular subject.
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