Some Positive Peer Pressure For Our Children, Or, Is It Wrong to Pray for Toddler-Onset Narcolepsy?
Two possible captions for this image: My wife would do this if she could. My wife would do this if only our children would.
BibleWorks 7 for $150
I’m selling one copy of BibleWorks 7 for $150. It’s not mine, but it’s all legit (the seller is buying BW9; he is not selling his old version off after getting the upgrade price). BW7 was a major advance over BW6. The two upgrades since then include a few nice new features, but nothing most people can’t live without—mostly textual critical stuff. BibleWorks 7 still does extremely well the three things that I think make BibleWorks worth having: Fast searching in multiple languages, including...
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A quick, must-read New York Times article about one of today’s foremost Christian philosophers. I prefer John Frame for my epistemology, but I’ve made a little bit of progress in Warranted Christian Belief.
Make A List; Check It Twice
This is a good time of year for me to remind you and you of an important principle: don't listen to Logos when they let their marketing folks write the following: The sheer volume of content in Logos base packages makes them incredibly valuable. There's a fundamental error here—or at least a faulty assumption: quantity and quality are not the same thing, even in products from an excellent company like Logos. In a given year I use a relatively small percentage of my Logos resources. Here's what...
Grudem on Selfishness
I think the following comments from Grudem's Systematic Theology are very insightful—and needful for preachers. It's easy to preach so hard against selfishness that one erases part of the image of God! Other definitions of the essential character of sin have been suggested. Probably the most common definition is to say that the essence of sin is selfishness.1 However, such a definition is unsatisfactory because Scripture itself does not define sin this way. Much self-interest is good and...