Great Hodge Quote
Regeneration secures right knowledge as well as right feeling; and right feeling is not the effect of right knowledge, nor is right knowledge the effect of right feeling. The two are inseparable effects of a work which affects the whole soul." —Cornelius Van Til quoting Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, 3:36 (in Frame, CVT: An Analysis of His Thought, 203!)
McLuhan Quote 1
It’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan, the great media theorist. It’s time for some quotes. This one’s about the meaning of a phrase he coined (or popularized?), the “global village.” There are more quotes to come. The global village is not created by the motor car or even by the airplane; it’s created by instant electronic information movement. The global village is at once as wide as the planet and as small as a little town where everybody is maliciously engaged in...
A Helpful Grid for Application in Preaching
Michael Lawrence, a pastor with a Ph.D. (much like Mark Dever, from whose ministry he comes), uses the following grid to help him make sure to cover all his bases in application: (Lawrence is a Baptist, so he assumes that the preacher will have three outline points, but obviously there could be more or fewer.) The first column helps remind the preacher to apply a given text (especially an Old Testament one) to the right period of redemptive history, namely our own. The other columns help the...
A T-Shirt Design for Typography Nerd/Elitist Wannabes Like Me
I laughed out loud, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to.
My Ideal Bible?
I think the ESV folks may be coming out with the preaching and reading Bible I’ve been looking for. They’re calling it the Single Column Legacy Bible. The text isn’t cluttered with superscript references or even a reference column to the side—the only downfalls of my current favorite Bible. It has wide margins for at least some note-taking, though I’m a little conflicted about this because the headings are also in the margins. I do wonder if they would do better in the text itself, lest my...