I am pleased to announce that volume 2 of Matthew Poole's Synopsis, covering Genesis 10-22, has been published. For more details, please see our website: The Matthew Poole Project as well as the comments at GreenBaggins and The Coventicle.

The U.P. and Punjab Governments has banned Madhuri Dixit's new movie Aaja Nachale. The movie was banned because of the derogatory remarks against the Dalit community in India. The U.P. chief minister has also written to the central govt. to ban the movie from the theators.

Although I have not watched the movie and did not hear the songs of it but I just read on the internet that the movie has been banned because of a song which contains these words, "bole mochi bhi apne ko sunar...

Languages are interesting. some time they may make you feel good other times you may have to feel bad for you don't know each of them.

Languages were a gift of God to humankind to save them from problems and ultimately from death(remember the event of tower of Babel). But these languages in Christ bring glory and honor to God(remember the disciples, praising God in different tounges) . It is so beautiful to see and hear word of God and the beautiful hymns in different languages....

The Westminster Directory for Public Worship and the Lining of the Psalms
by Chris Coldwell

The “Lining of the Psalms” was once introduced as an optional expedient in the Nation of Scotland when it was necessary for the whole country to learn and get used to the tunes in the 1650 Psalter, which had been imposed by church and state in conformity to the uniformity of worship desired and aimed at in the Solemn League and Covenant.1 Over the years some separatist groups raised lining...

The Law is Not a Boogey-Man

Recently, it has been asserted that I am living too much "under the Law." But the assertion does not cease there. Pitted against me living too much "under the Law" was the presumption that I was not living enough "in the Holy Spirit." Now all of this was, to be honest, confounding and news to me. How one who does not know me could, with any intellectual honesty whatsoever, impute such sentiments to my state of being left me with only two logical possibilities....