Jesus Storybook Bible Two Bucks for Kindle
This is a good kids book carefully showing how Old Testament stories point to Christ and how New Testament stories fulfill the Old Testament ones. And rightnow it's two bucks for Kindle (though you'll want to read it on an iPad or Kindle Fire, not a grayscale Kindle).
The New Blog Title
It just didn't work. After 3.5 years. βλογάπη as a blog name, I mean. People who don't know Greek understandably had no idea what was going on (I originally assumed only people who knew Greek would care to read the blog). People who did know Greek didn't always pronounce it as I expected. Also, my dissertation, which focused a great deal on ἀγάπη, is over and done with. And, most importantly, the dissertation was trying to get people to forget that ἀγάπη (agape) ever became an English word in...
Review: Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels
Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J. Warner Wallace My rating: 3 of 5 stars UPDATE: This book is currently free for Kindle. Caveat I could tell by reading the promo material for Cold-Case Christianity that this book of Christian apologetics would land firmly in the camp known as “evidentialism.” The blurbs read like a who's-who of contemporary evidentialists: McDowell (and McDowell), Mittelberg, Moreland, Copan, McFarland. I appreciate the...
Excerpt from DeYoung’s Hole in Our Holiness
This entire excerpt from Kevin DeYoung's excellent book The Hole in Our Holiness is freely available online, and I found it uniquely valuable. You can buy the book here and read my review of it here. THE MEDICINE FOR OUR MOTIVATION an excerpt from The Hole in our Holiness One of the reasons why I think Christians get tired of hearing about the law is because they never hear why they should obey the law. The imperatives hit us like a ton of study Bibles because we aren't given any motivation...