Cameo Bible Unboxing (Church Bible Publishers)

I bought a Church Bible Publishers Handsize Cameo recently and these are all the pictures of unboxing it. I bought it because it has the same textblock (pages) as the premium Cambridge Cameo Bible. The font is an 8.5 pt Petit Medieval Clarendon font that is a Cambridge font from the 1950’s. It is really cool.

An actual Cambridge Cameo with a goatskin binding would cost you around $150 from evangelicalbible.com. I paid $60 for this awesome Bible from Church Bible Publishers. Their website is churchbiblepublishers.com.

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Parable in Matthew Chapter 20

I like this parable of the vineyard labourers in Matthew Chapter 20:1-16. In the parable the householder hires labourers to work in his vineyard at various times of the day; for a penny a day for all of them. The workers that worked one hour got paid the same as the works that worked all day. Our Lord likened the kingdom of heaven to this. The last will be first and the first will be last. That means that those labourers that only worked an hour in the vineyard were called to receive their pay before those who had worked all day. Those that had worked all day were upset because of those that only worked an hour receiving the same pay.

What I take from all of this is that someone such as myself who isn’t as mature of a Christian as say a pastor of a church receives the same reward as that pastor who labors in the gospel of Christ and runs a church. I believe that reward to be eternal life, of course. Even Christians who hardly ever read their Bibles receive the same reward as someone who spends their entire life intensely studying the bible, evangelizing and serving the lord diligently.

I love this parable. It is absolutely beautiful.

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Doctrinal Terms

This is a table of words that are important to understand for us as Christians. I copied this table from The Life Application Study Bible Third Edition in Romans Chapter 2. This is also for my reference because I find needing to remind myself of terms like ‘propitiation’ and some of the other terms here as well. All of these are covered in The Book of Romans which one of my favorite pastors said “is the doctrinal book” .

Here are the terms (click on one to see the definition) :

Election

God’s choice of an individual or group for a specific purpose or destiny.

Justification

God’s act of declaring us free from guilt for our sins, making us right with him.

Propitiation

The removal of God’s punishment for sin through the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Redemption

Jesus Christ’s act of paying the price of sin (death) so we can go free.

Sanctification

Becoming more and more like Jesus Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit.

Glorification

The ultimate state of a believer after death where he or she becomes like Christ. (1 John 3:2)

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