A Great Article on Gideon and All of Judges
I just read "Will The Real Gideon Please Stand Up? Narrative Style And Intention In Judges 6-9" by Daniel I. Block, then of Southern Seminary. It’s a model of what scholarship is supposed to do for the church: He lays out the major ways people have interpreted the Scripture text. He dismisses the silliness of theological liberals with a witty but pointed paragraph that nonetheless is not disrespectful or mocking toward any particular individual. Ascribing problematic details to...
BibleWorks and Logos Training for Cheap
A new little link has crept into my sidebar: BibleWorks Seminars. For $10 (through PayPal), you can view two BibleWorks training seminars: Beginner-Intermediate: weeds through all the many tools to focus on just the ones you will use day-in and day-out. Advanced: goes through pretty much all the other buttons and tools. My philosophy of Bible software training focuses on going through real-life use-cases, not just going through a laundry-list of features. I also try to show you how I...
Apple Announcement
I confess to being excited. I’ve been selling things off (even books, I’m afraid) to save up for what Apple might be announcing today. If prices don’t rise and they come through with a Retina Display, I think I’m in. The ability to access my Logos books and to preach and teach from an iPad is just too much to pass up.
Stanley Fish on Separation of Church and State
A quick must-read.
A Great Quote from Ken Myers, OR, An Ironic Quote to Put on a Blog, I Suppose, But Hopefully It Will Lead You To Read the Book
"Our frenetic search for novelty is, says Daniel J. Boorstin, one of the signs that we demand 'more than the world can give us.'" (p. 66)