A few weeks ago I got word that my dissertation defense had been moved; it's now set for Monday afternoon, May 2. Please do pray for me if you think of it. I'm busy preparing for the defense; the full defense draft should be turned in this week by Friday at the...
Mark Ward
Four Encouragements for Those Who Sometimes Find Bible Reading Difficult
Do you ever stumble over the difficulty of some of the words of Scripture? It’s not just obscure places and people and practices in the OT; there are significant passages in the NT which are also quite difficult or ambiguous. Here are some points that might help you:...
SBL Bible Book Abbreviations
The Society of Biblical Literature has a series of standard abbreviations for Bible books. I particularly appreciate the fact that they do away with the unnecessary period. If you use Mark Ward’s Microsoft Word Miracle Macro, you’ll need to use these as well for it to...
Mark Ward’s Microsoft Word Miracle Macro
Back in September of 2003 I had this problem, see. I would often paste text into Microsoft Word that included "straight quotes" instead of “smart (curly) quotes.” I didn’t like having to go through and change them to curly, so I set up a macro. All it did was find and...
John Frame on Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
You’ll want to read this carefully (I added paragraph divisions to help you do so): It often comes as an exciting discovery that doctrines that seem at first glance to be opposed are actually complementary, if not actually dependent one on another. For Calvinists, for...
Thoughts vs. Feelings
NPR yesterday ran a story about capital punishment in Connecticut. Apparently, the state may possibly get rid of the death penalty just as a notorious double murder—a wife and daughter brutalized and killed for no reason—goes to trial. This has made for an interesting...
Augustine on Love
Do not for the sake of reward love God; let Him be the reward. —Augustine (Philip Schaff, The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Vol. VII, 25)
A Baby Story
Last week my wife was sick. So sick that she could hardly get off the couch for about three days. So sick that that she never entered the kitchen. This is a first for her—and for me. I had to feed the baby and myself. I had to clean stuff. I changed all diapers and...
How to Use the Blogape Highlighting System in Logos 4
I have a system of highlighting that I have used for several years now that helps me. It’s a free country, so you, of course, can do what you want (except Democrats or Communists do appear to control the choice of highlighter colors; you really can’t get anything but...
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....