I finally got around to reading President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech, and I commend it to you. David Brooks made the interesting point that Obama, though certainly a political liberal, did not speak like a secularist. He talks freely of higher-order purposes. He...
Mark Ward
Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Beale and Carson explain what they will not cover in their preface to the Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament: We have not summarized the extraordinarily complex developments in the field of typology since Leonhard Goppelt wrote his 1939 book...
“Emotional” < “Analytical”
Jennifer Senior writes in a New York Magazine article about how pro-choice our nation isn’t, The pro-choice movement has always had the harder job. The choice argument is an analytical one, grounded in theories of privacy and the rights of the mother; the pro-life...
Dabney on Counterfeit Gods
We conceive formal idolatry, as that of the Hindu, a very foolish and flagrant thing; we palliate… spiritual idolatry of passions. God classes them together, in order to show us the enormity of the latter. Robert L. Dabney, Systematic Theology (Carlisle, PA: Banner of...
Quiz Answers
At Rubén Gómez’s request, here are the answers to all the questions in my BibleWorks Pop Quiz. I included the commands I used. If I’ve overlooked a better command or made some error, I’m happy to hear about it in the comments. 1. Find all ESV occurrences in Paul of...
My Loose Paraphrase of Hebrews 12:1-3
Remember all of the people in the “Hall of Faith” chapter, Hebrews 11? They’re watching us run our race. So let’s shed the things that aren’t helping us run well—namely the sin that so quickly weighs us down. And let’s run with endurance the race God gave us. If we...
Black Friday
It was a black Friday indeed, but I had to do it. I sold my MacBook and bought a Sony Vaio. I have to have BibleWorks and Logos 4, and my somewhat older MacBook just wasn’t able to handle virtualizing Windows anymore. Rather than shell out $100-plus for a copy...
BibleWorks Pop Quiz
Want to keep your BibleWorks skills sharp? I formulated the following pop-quiz questions for my BibleWorks seminar a few weeks ago: Find all ESV occurrences in Paul of words beginning in, but not the word in. How many Greek OT verses are there with the forms κυριος...
NY Times and Total Depravity
Yesterday I opened up the New York Times home page and the main article struck me: Science has now proclaimed that total depravity and original sin are untenable. Science, in fact, provides a better answer than Christianity to all of life's questions, according to...
Pistis Faith Movement
I thought I was breaking new ground with my Pistis Faith post, but, sadly, someone else appears to have beaten me to it. Either that or I've started a movement.