Flavel on the Christian Duty to Observe God’s Providence
My good pastor read this whole chapter from John Flavel's The Mystery of Providence to our congregation last night. I have never heard him read something to lengthy to us; he obviously felt it was important. You'll see why if you click! Flavel knows his Bible. It's worth a read and some meditation.
Nerdy Tuesdays: GREP
So. I had a huge list of books that was to go up on a website I designed. The list included ISBNs, and I wanted to make every ISBN a link containing my Amazon affiliate code. The list included the ISBNs in a convenient standard format: "ISBN 1234567890123." All the entries looked something like this:Dragonfly Books, 2008, c1996. LCCN 96012111. pbk., ISBN 9780375844515, $7.99. 1 vol. (unpaged) : col. Ill. ; 28 cm. LCCN 96012111, Grades 2-4. So I did a little GREP homework and used TextWrangler...
Five Reasons to Buy Logos
Several concerned friends have contacted me about a blog post detailing Five Reasons Not to Buy Logos. I urge everyone considering such a purchase to read the five reasons, but you could save about 80% of your time reading that post by being a regular reader of βλογάπη! I've made a lot of the same points: BibleWorks focuses on the Bible text while Logos is a digital library. It's clear which is more important and therefore ought to be purchased first! Don't have a baseball-card-collecting...
A Good Verse to Guide Internet Communication
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. (James 3:17 ESV) A high standard that, by God’s great grace, can be met.
Iain Provan on Higher Critics
From Iain Provan's excellent 1 & 2 Kings commentary: It is not entirely clear why we should dig the great ditch between biblical Israel and historical Israel that the newer historians demand. It is, after all, the case that all historiography, whether ancient or modern, has a story-like quality—that all writing or speaking about the past involves turning happenings and people into events and characters. All historiography is also in some sense ideological literature. That is, any story...