BibleWorks Seminar Community Pricing
I'm holding another BibleWorks Seminar this Saturday, December 7, for those who couldn't make it to my bigger one a few weeks ago. I'm trying a community pricing model. I just need to make a certain amount of money to justify the work, and I'm happy to make that amount whether many guys come or only a few. If I can get just two more sign-ups, the price will drop to $20 a person. Get a few more and I'll toss in free donuts like I did for the last group. =) We've got a great location across the...
What Rap Means
I was the first to post on a thread that developed into a major blogosphere brouhaha, and I spent some time trying to write out my own thoughts for that thread. But I prefer the obscurity of my own blog to the harsh spotlight Scott Aniol is now under (see his follow-up comments here), so I'll post this here at By Faith We Understand. I want readers to know in advance that I passed my comments by several mature and respected friends, who encouraged me to post. Without further ado: Most of the...
Freedom to Do What You Please
From a helpful article: An ideology that is only “about human freedom” is inadequate as a governing philosophy.... Responding to the praises that had been sung about the French Revolution because of its supposed establishment of liberty, [Edmund Burke] made the following famous observation: “The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may soon be turned into complaints.”...
Vern Poythress and Level 3b
The BJU Press Bible Integration team, in which I am thankful to be an insignificant cog, uses a rubric of sorts to gauge whether or not we're really doing Bible integration. I've written about it before. We call it, informally, "the levels." The three levels of Bible Integration. If it sounds hokey, ad hoc, or insufficient, I urge you to come up with something better. I've never seen anyone (except its original author) make the attempt, though I admit to something less than exhaustive...
Kidner
I just love Derek Kidner. This morning I was reading Psalm 89—the great psalm affirming the Davidic covenant—and I wanted some insight, so I sought him out. I wasn't disappointed: The foundation to this psalm is the great prophecy of 2 Samuel 7:4–17, at the heart of which is the promise of a throne for David’s dynasty for ever, and of unique honours for its occupant. ‘I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever....' This psalm seizes chiefly on the clause ‘for ever’, which the turn of...