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...
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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...
Alan Jacobs: BBEdit Freak, Essay Master
I keep insisting to my wife that I’m not a real reader. I play at it. I pretend by force of will to be a reader. I wanna be one when I grow up. That’s all. But there are those writers who turn me into a reader by their force of will, their skill and verve and depth....
NICOT/NICNT Logos Discount for BJU Students and F/S
The New International Commentary was just added at my request to BJU’s Logos discount page. It’s now $1200 for students and professors instead of $1600. Of course, it pays to pre-pub, because it was once available for $1000.
Faerie and Metanarrative
JRR Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings, once commented that stories like his, at their best, serve as "a far-off gleam or echo of evangelium [the gospel] in the real world." And one famous conversation in his epic tale, one I pull out and read every so often,...
The JEC at YDS
I'm at the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale Divinity School for a week taking a course on Edwards' Religious Affections. It's been fun and informative, especially our time viewing Edwards' manuscripts and our class discussions—which I had the honor of starting the...
Beautiful Father’s Day Article for My First Father’s Day
Read it; it’s about a father who went to war—World War II—and was deeply affected by it. I just read Stalingrad on my Kindle, a fast-moving and terrifying account of one of the most famous portions of WWII. Now I’m on to 1776, also on the Kindle. What a gift and...
A Smattering of Notes on Free Will
Augustine in 426 wrote On Grace and Free Will. Erasumus wrote a book in 1524 called On the Freedom of the Will. Luther, an Augustinian, replied in 1525 with his book, On the Bondage of the Will. Edwards wrote a book in 1754 called Freedom of the Will, yes, but the...
Biblical Theology, Practical Application, And Pendulum Swings
I found the following excerpt from Michael Lawrence’s new Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church (browse; buy) really helpful. I’ve been excited about the storyline view of Scripture, and I still believe it is primary. It is essential to know that the Bible is...
Periodic Reminder
I’m the semi-official Logos Bible Software representative for BJU. Honestly, I’d rather your money go through the Campus Store, but there are some details which haven’t fallen into place there yet. Here is the discount link for BJU faculty, staff, and students:...
Lovest Thou Me More than These?
Are agapao and phileo really different in the New Testament? How about in John 21:15-17, Jesus' famous conversation with Peter? What does the evidence say? I just read a great little book which genuinely helped me understand my Bible better, Roy F. Butler's little...
One More
Just one more sad, sad quote from Nothing to Envy: Dr. Kim staggered up the riverbank. Her legs were numb, encased in frozen trousers. She made her way through the woods until the first light of dawn illuminated the outskirts of a small village. She didn’t want to sit...