BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

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 stopped reading the Bible. Why?, they asked. Well, she said, she’d already read it many times. She knew what happened in the end (and in the middle, and in the beginning). She didn’t see why she had to keep dragging her eyes across the...

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Audio Book Advice from a Pro

I asked a good friend of mine who does quite a bit of commuting and who knows books what he thinks about audio book sites like Christian Audio and Amazon's Audible. I asked him if I could turn his excellent answer into a blog post: I have pretty limited exposure to Christian Audio. I download their free mp3s but I find the website difficult to search. I am not sure how the mp3 format works out for long books—I downloaded Bonhoeffer but it is 33 mp3s and my player tends to shuffle the track...

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Review: The Psalms as Christian Worship: An Historical Commentary

The Psalms as Christian Worship: An Historical Commentary by Bruce K. Waltke My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a unique commentary, and not just among volumes on the Psalms. It's refreshing to read an erudite volume with careful grammatical-historical exegesis and a (faithful) eye on theology. This commentary also has an eye on the history of exegesis, and that's why it has a double authorship. (Triple, actually: Erika Moore wrote a chapter on Second-Temple Jewish responses to the Psalms.) Major...

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