Over ten years ago, one of my God-given spiritual leaders said in a class that King James Onlyism is actively seeking converts and that, unfortunately, seeking peace by refusing to address the issue was not an option. Conflict was coming, and we needed to go on the...
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Another Example of Language Change in the Last 400 Years: Punctuation
Three minutes ago I discovered another passage I had been misreading for years because I always thought of it in 400-year-old KJV language: As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: So shall he...
It Gets Better
One of my favorite teachers in college (who I think was my wife’s only teacher in college, she took so many of his classes) told a story that I have thought about many times. It seems an older single missionary lady somehow revealed to her superiors that she had...
Guess the Seminary
The image above is a banner from the faculty pages for a particular conservative (obviously) Christian seminary. Which one? No research allowed. Only guessing.
Capitalizing Pronouns Referring to Deity
Note: I have written a somewhat lengthier and more definitive post on this topic for the Logos Bible Software blog. I write Bible textbooks for a living, and the various publishing houses for which I write (a grand total of two) have style manuals. Conservative...
A Great Article on Gideon and All of Judges
I just read "Will The Real Gideon Please Stand Up? Narrative Style And Intention In Judges 6-9" by Daniel I. Block, then of Southern Seminary. It’s a model of what scholarship is supposed to do for the church: He lays out the major ways people have...
Kevin Bauder on my Alma Mater
Kevin Bauder, former president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary, is one of the most public voices defending historic fundamentalist ideals of careful and appropriate separatism. His recent contribution to the Zondervan Counterpoints series (The Spectrum of...
TGC on ER2
D. A. Carson knows a thing or two, and I appreciated his candor and his demeanor in this response to the Elephant Room—what else can you call it?—debacle. Tim Keller contributed, too, but I thought Carson’s voice predominated (as a blogger, by definition, I could be...
Great Article Ya Gotta Read It
If you've been wanting a good summation of the hot issue of Christian political involvement, look no further. I read this article a little while back when it came out, and when just now I ran across a few quotes I saved from it, I knew I had to recommend it to you and...
Book Recommendations from Worldview/Apologetics Teacher, Or, Mount Calvary Baptist Church Usher Reads The Following Books When Not Ushing
My friend Brent Cook, BJU apologetics and worldview teacher, gave me permission to post the following list. This is what he wrote to introduce it: Several have asked for book recommendations related to the classes I’ve taught this semester. Here is a partial list I...
NIV Books of the Bible
Biblica now has an edition of The Books of the Bible set in the NIV, though it’s just the New Testament (at least I can’t find an entire Bible on their website). The new edition is set in a serif typeface rather than the odd, hybrid typeface used for the TNIV editions...
Context, Context, Context!
Oops! Check out my review of this unfortunate Christian tchotchke! Update: There’s more!