The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the...
Mark Ward
Love Makes the Top Ten
Love is the third most looked-up word on Merriam-Webster.com. The editors note wisely, “We're guessing that many people arrive at our site with a question—‘what is the meaning of love?’—that actually requires answers beyond a dictionary definition.” Kudos to the...
Hallelujah Flash Mobs
If you have not yet seen the following videos (I put the better one first), then forget for once all that useless stuff I just posted about being distracted by the Internet, and just watch. I was moved to tears by both videos. It is so powerful to hear such beautiful...
Informing Ourselves to Death
The danger of constant connection is a becoming a relentless theme among people whose highest goals are merely laying up treasure on earth. For those who want to lay up treasure in heaven, this warning ought to carry an even greater weight. I want treasure in heaven....
Charles Hodge on Free Will
I've read a good number of pages on the nature of the human will recently, and little has been as helpful on free will as Charle's Hodge's brief summary in his Systematic Theology. He speaks of three views of the will: necessity, contingency, and certainty. I won't go...
Tyndale Tech Tips
David Instone-Brewer at Tyndale House, an evangelical study center at Cambridge, just released an excellent set of tips on word-processing. He has made it part of his mission to help biblical scholars (and all of us wannabes) use their computers wisely. There’s a...
The Fear of Aslan
I just wrote a little section in my dissertation on the fear of the Lord. Proverbs 1:7 reads, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” Fear (יִרְאָה) in this verse is certainly used often in the phrases “fear of God” or “fear of the Lord,” but it is also...
Chapter 3 Approved
Praise the Lord: chapter 3 of the dissertation sailed through smoothly. Please pray that chapter 4 would do the same. Thank you to those who have prayed for me. I've updated my word-count ticker.
Schreiner on Jewish Expectations
I’ve always heard that the Jewish people of Jesus’ day expected their Messiah to be a political savior and not so much a spiritual one. Jesus will be both one day, of course, but His ministry in the first century certainly emphasized the spiritual. He therefore didn’t...
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“The truth or superiority of neither Catholicism or Protestantism is to be determined by the parlous levels of ignorance, historical, ecclesiastical, and theological, prevalent among their respective adherents.” —Carl Trueman