Over the last few months since work (and baby!) deadlines led me to drop Andy Crouch’s Culture Making, waiting to pick it up again some day soon, I’ve thought many times about his model for describing typical Christian cultural engagement. He sees four typical...
Mark Ward
Excellent Insights on Biblical Literacy
His set of buzzwords is a bit different from mine, but his insights are profoundly needed: David R. Nienhuis' article in Modern Reformation on how to promote biblical literacy is a great read. He points to our entertainment culture as one reason even evangelical kids...
BDAG Could Be a Much Bigger Book
This is what its entry on ἀγάπη looks like in BDAG, the standard Greek lexicon. This is what it looks like uncompacted, with all of its separate points turned into descended bullets: It’s like unfolding some incredible origami! I find I can’t use the...
Notes for Ph.D. Students at Bob Jones Seminary
On 8/31/04 at 7:30 pm, the dean of BJ Seminary met with all the doctoral candidates and gave some instruction, encouragement, and advice. Obviously, this won’t be of interest to everyone, but I’ve tried to let all this counsel guide me and it may help anyone who’s in...
Buzz Off!
No, no, no, NO! Google Buzz lasted about four hours on my Gmail account. I admit, I don’t mind seeing my friends’ comments on Google Reader items (even though I’m trying to cut down on those, too…), but I simply do not need any more messages clamoring for my attention...
An Arresting Metaphor
J. Gresham Machen, in “Christianity and Culture,” Princeton Theological Review, Vol. 11, 1913. The elimination of the supernatural in Christianity—so tremendously common today—really makes Christianity merely natural. Christianity becomes a human product, a mere part...
Interesting! What People at My Alma Mater Are Reading!
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Ripping Off Moisés Silva
I’m stealing brazenly from Moisés Silva (see my previous post quoting him at length), but perhaps this post may still amuse and inform you. Silva provides the set-up, I the made-up text and exegesis. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Silva: "It is...
Romans 12:3–21
My good pastor has been urging his congregation with more heart even than usual to read their Bibles this year. As part of his exhortation to do that, he gave some practical examples from his own Bible reading of what he does to study. I think that was an excellent...
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love,” Romans 12:10.
Leon Morris makes an interesting note on φιλόστοργοι (philostorgoi—a combination of φίλος [philos] and στοργή [storge]) in Romans 12:10: KJV has “Be kindly affectioned”, where “kindly” is used in its original sense, “referring to kin.” —The Epistle to the Romans,...