My best man and ever “former roommate” got back to work today after a two-week honeymoon. I had the real privilege of serving as his best man, in fact. My arms and legs almost fell off standing up there waiting for the official hitching to take place, but it was all...
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Congratulations!
My congratulations go to Matt Hoskinson on a very favorable review of his dissertation (published by BJU Press!) by a guy who knows what he’s talking about.
And the Winner Is!
The grand prize winner of my recent drawing, selected by random number generation, is… Drum roll, if you please! C. Howard of G., South Carolina! No, that’s too obvious. Let’s try “Chris H. of Greenville, SC”! Chris gets a Bible and a big collection of theological and...
Prizes Reminder!
Today is the last day you can enter to win an innovative Bible and/or a massive set of collected articles. You just have to be a more or less regular reader of this blog (no subscribing just to win a prize). Click here before the stroke of midnight tonight!
Marsden on Darwin and Evangelicalism
Before the latter part of the 19th century, evangelicalism could have great confidence in man's ability to discover through the scientific method the order inherent in God's creation. But when Darwin hit, evangelicalism was tested. Would it continue to accept the...
Language As a Tool of Theology
John Frame is someone from whom I’ve learned a great deal, and the learning continues. I found his chapter on language in his Doctrine of the Knowledge of God to be so helpful that I wanted to share the material with you. Frame begins the little section I’ll excerpt...
“Decker,” Etymologically Speaking, Means “One Who ‘Decks’ Linguistic Errors in Exegesis”
Rod Decker nails it in this brief paper he delivered at the recent Bible Faculty Leadership Summit, a get-together of professors from Fundamentalist Protestant schools. Decker knows whereof he speaks, having published a work on linguistics (pictured) in Carson’s...
Spiritual Health
Why ever disagree with anyone—much less battle him or her—over theology? Does it really matter so much whether or not people believe in God’s sovereignty as long as they’re saved? Do they really have to understand and uphold the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity? Is it...
Βλογάπη Readership Prize Drawing
I have two mildly awesome prizes to give away. Do you want them? All you have to do is follow my rules and fill in a form. There will be five winners, including one grand-prize champion. Winners will be selected at random. Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! A copy of the Bible...
WardMarkTechTipBlogPost
An acquaintance recently wrote me: I took your seminar a few years ago on electronic filling and it has helped immensely. I've even moved to a different seminary, and it is still an effective system. In a summer course the other day, a fellow student bemoaned not...