My dissertation chapter on joy argues that the article on joy from the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible is mistaken about much of the following. Joy. Positive human condition that can be either feeling or action. The Bible uses joy in both senses. Joy as Feeling. Joy...
Books
The New BestCommentaries.com
BestCommentaries.com has gotten a nice redesign—and it added the one feature I most consistently missed. You can now look up a particular commentary set and see how high its individual volumes are ranked. That means you can quickly get an idea how valuable a given set...
The Toolshed Quote
I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with the specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place....
The F-Word on a Family-Safe Blog, Or Why Ken Myers Was Right in 1989
The New York Times' Jon Pareles today in a perceptive article: It’s some kind of milestone: Three of the Top 10 hits on last week’s pop music chart have choruses that can’t be played uncensored on the radio and won’t have their original lyrics quoted in this family...
Eustace
That tiresome old bother, Eustace, makes a royal nuisance of himself throughout the opening chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. But then Aslan gives Eustace a severe mercy: he turns him into a dragon. He shows everyone, including Eustace himself, what is in...
Awesome Buy!
I simply don't know how this guy at Rejoice Christian Software does it. The John Frame Theology Collection for $60 instead of $220! I am so tempted... SO tempted! But I own most of these books already, I'm going to have to guess that a lot of those articles are...
Current Kindle Savings
I have now saved $83.26 on books by buying a Kindle. Admittedly, I would not have purchased some of these books had I not gotten a Kindle... And that would put the figure in the $60s. But I'm sure glad I bought those books (like Nothing to Envy, Stalingrad, and 1776)...
God Bless Us, Every One!
Merry Christmas, dear readers. It's time for you to give to one another! Leave in the comments... the best book or book-related item you got for Christmas, and the best book you gave!
Carson: The God Who Is There, 4 DVDS $12
Carson's video teaching series, "The God Who Is There" (the book is above), is available free on Vimeo. Carson is always worth hearing, and this would make for a good evangelistic Bible study. And now the 4-DVD set is also available for a great price, just $12, at...
Found It!
I have looked fruitlessly for this quotation a number of times, and I finally just stumbled across it: It is not biblical to say that the only virtues God can require of me are the ones that I am good enough to perform. If I am so bad that I can’t delight in what is...