One of the translation consultants at Bibles International just related a funny story. One African tribal group, the Dogba, had the grandest time hearing the American consultant mispronounce their language. They would give her Dogba words, ask her to repeat them, then...
Mission
Professional Development
I’m at Bibles International for a week to hear Glenn Kerr talk about Hebrew discourse analysis and Bill Smallman talk about cross-cultural communication. I’m reading a very interesting book on the latter topic, Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for...
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")...
Four American Cultural Assumptions Revealed
When we address our culture, we have the benefit of lifelong immersion in it. But alas, that blessing is also a curse, for like fish in water, we cannot see the medium in which we swim. It is hardest to see what is always before our eyes, hardest to remark on values...
The Rosary
I read the Sermon on the Mount often as a child—mainly because I thought it was cool that it was the biggest stretch of red letters I could find in the New Testament. But Jesus’ teaching there is so simple and powerful that, despite my inane motivation, Jesus’ famous...
The Best BJU Chapel Message I Have Ever Heard
I have heard approximately 500 BJU chapel sermons in the last 10 years. Before that I heard about 100 each year for my four years of undergraduate training. I’m coming up on a thousand, and if you include Bible Conferences and two summer school sessions, I may be...
Warfield: “Are They Few that Be Saved?”
This is my own summary of Warfield’s article, “Are They Few that Be Saved?” I am studying the issue because I am writing on Matthew 7:13-14 for the BJU Press Bible Truths series. “The paucitas salvandorum [the idea that few will be saved] has long ranked among a wide...
Global Warming and ADD
Do you believe in global climate change? Is it a serious threat to world health and peace foisted on us by a century and a half of greedy robber barons, or is it an emperor’s-new-clothes fruit of left-wing self-hatred? How about ADD? Is it an excuse for permissive...
NPR on Abortion
Husbands and wives have their compromises. I get speakers in the bathroom so I can listen to NPR in the shower, and she gets… love. I mean, she’d get it anyway, but still. So I’m listening to NPR this morning and a blog post pops into my head—because of this story....
Paul: The Reepicheep of Christian Evangelism
I do love Paul's personality. Bold and persuasive but full of tender affection—and a Reepicheep streak! When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together...
They Hate Christ Even by His Other Names
The standard line on the new Narnia movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Around the time the kids are tiring of “The Deathly Hallows,” the Pevensie family will be returning to the screen for a little adventure of their own. Or, make that...
Hallelujah Flash Mobs
If you have not yet seen the following videos (I put the better one first), then forget for once all that useless stuff I just posted about being distracted by the Internet, and just watch. I was moved to tears by both videos. It is so powerful to hear such beautiful...