1. Has anyone else noticed that the standard language in the doctrinal statement of Crown College (and the approximately 130 other churches and ministries that use it verbatim) is inherently contradictory? "The King James Version of the Bible is the only English...
Mark Ward
Nick Kristof Is Right and (A Lot of) TV Preachers Are Wrong
Kristof says: Centuries ago, serious religious study was extraordinarily demanding and rigorous; in contrast, anyone could declare himself a scientist and go in the business of, say, alchemy. These days, it’s the reverse. A Ph.D. in chemistry is a rigorous degree,...
How to Find Every Unicode Greek Character in Microsoft Word
I may need to change the typeface of every Greek word in my dissertation from Gentium Book to Gentium Plus. That would take a while if I had to do it manually. I’m going to show you instead how you can do it automatically. I’m going to take you through all my steps to...
Bloodlines Review
Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian is the latest book penned by John Piper. In it he applies the impassioned exegesis for which he is known to issues of race and ethnicity. But his Christian Hedonism appears little in the book: it is mostly an exposition of...
1Marks Interview Series
Some moons ago, I interviewed Dr. Robert Bell in the first of what I hoped would become a 1Marks Interview Series. It is now officially a series, because Dr. Robert Vincent agreed to sit with me for an hour-long interview (right click link; choose "Save Target As")...
Great Hodge Quote
Regeneration secures right knowledge as well as right feeling; and right feeling is not the effect of right knowledge, nor is right knowledge the effect of right feeling. The two are inseparable effects of a work which affects the whole soul." —Cornelius Van Til...
McLuhan Quote 1
It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan, the great media theorist. It’s time for some quotes. This one’s about the meaning of a phrase he coined (or popularized?), the “global village.” There are more quotes to come. The global village is not...
A Helpful Grid for Application in Preaching
Michael Lawrence, a pastor with a Ph.D. (much like Mark Dever, from whose ministry he comes), uses the following grid to help him make sure to cover all his bases in application: (Lawrence is a Baptist, so he assumes that the preacher will have three outline points,...
A T-Shirt Design for Typography Nerd/Elitist Wannabes Like Me
I laughed out loud, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
My Ideal Bible?
I think the ESV folks may be coming out with the preaching and reading Bible I’ve been looking for. They’re calling it the Single Column Legacy Bible. The text isn’t cluttered with superscript references or even a reference column to the side—the only downfalls of my...