My dissertation chapter on joy argues that the article on joy from the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible is mistaken about much of the following. Joy. Positive human condition that can be either feeling or action. The Bible uses joy in both senses. Joy as Feeling. Joy...
Mark Ward
How to Pronounce Words Correctly
This is too good. You simply must read it. The logical end to linguistic prescriptivism is a strange world. HT: Mike Aubrey
Fatuousness
The only person I have ever known to be fatuous—the one person that comes to mind whenever I think of that word—was a preacher. Merriam-Webster’s definition for the word is unfortunately accurate: “complacently…foolish.” Now I do not at all believe that this preacher...
The New BestCommentaries.com
BestCommentaries.com has gotten a nice redesign—and it added the one feature I most consistently missed. You can now look up a particular commentary set and see how high its individual volumes are ranked. That means you can quickly get an idea how valuable a given set...
Can Anyone Tell Me What Calvin Wrote?
In the commandments of the Law [Matt 22:34–40, the Great Commandments], God does not look at what men can do, but at what they ought to do; since in this infirmity of the flesh it is impossible that perfect love can obtain dominion, for we know how strongly all the...
Top Five Reasons Why the BibleWorks 9 Upgrade is Worth $159
You should get the brand new BibleWorks 9. Let me give a count-down of the reasons: 5. Barry Beitzel’s Moody Atlas of the Bible. This is a quality resource. 4. The Use tab. BW9 automatically looks up all the occurrences of any word you have highlighted. Handy, because...
The Western Creed
A new friend gave me a nice gift upon the successful defense of my dissertation, Horton’s new systematic theology. Horton makes some artful statements in the intro. See if you can catch the ironic theme: For over three centuries now, atheists and skeptics have...
A Biblical Theology of Garment Tassels
A Jewish man in Israel with tassels on his shirt, a yarmulke, and prominent payot (ringlets of hair). © Mark L. Ward, Jr., 2010. I was just studying Numbers 15 for my church's Sunday School, and I came across this little paragraph: Tassels on Garments The Lord said to...
Is This What We Were Made To Do?
Evangelicals Are Top Highlighters in Kindle Books
Evangelicals are the top highlighters of Kindle books. Five of the top ten highlighted books are Bibles or Christian books (Radical by David Platt is no. 9): Three self-help books, one debauched fiction title (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and one crazy piece of...