... , you will be shunned. Some years ago when actress Sally Field won her second Oscar in the span of only a few years, she famously gushed in her acceptance speech, "You like me! You really like me!" She has never been nominated again. After F. Murray Abraham won an Oscar for his stellar performance as Salieri in the movie Amadeus, he was tapped to be an Oscar presenter at the following year's ceremony, and when he did this, he conducted himself quite pompously. In other words, he outwardly displayed the ...
... bond that binds us to God” (Senior, p. 43). The truth is that God can take stones and make of them children for Abraham. The comparison between “stones” and “children” is strengthened by the fact that in Aramaic the two words sound quite similar. Now is not ... . Baptized: For extended treatments of the character of John’s baptism, see W. F. Flemington, The New Testament Doctrine of Baptism, pp. 13ff.; and G. R. Beasley-Murray, Baptism in the New Testament, pp. 31ff. For the view that John took ...
