Top Five Reasons Why the BibleWorks 9 Upgrade is Worth $159
You should get the brand new BibleWorks 9. Let me give a count-down of the reasons: 5. Barry Beitzel’s Moody Atlas of the Bible. This is a quality resource. 4. The Use tab. BW9 automatically looks up all the occurrences of any word you have highlighted. Handy, because that’s something I do all the time. 3. CNTTS NT Critical Apparatus. I have not used this particular apparatus, and I wasn’t even familiar with the CNTTS (not to be confused with Daniel B. Wallace’s partner organization, the...
The Western Creed
A new friend gave me a nice gift upon the successful defense of my dissertation, Horton’s new systematic theology. Horton makes some artful statements in the intro. See if you can catch the ironic theme: For over three centuries now, atheists and skeptics have catechized the West in the belief that as culture progresses, belief in God or at least in extraordinary divine intervention in nature and history will wane…. Once upon a time in the West, one could become an atheist or deist only with...
A Biblical Theology of Garment Tassels
A Jewish man in Israel with tassels on his shirt, a yarmulke, and prominent payot (ringlets of hair). © Mark L. Ward, Jr., 2010. I was just studying Numbers 15 for my church's Sunday School, and I came across this little paragraph: Tassels on Garments The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look...
Is This What We Were Made To Do?
Evangelicals Are Top Highlighters in Kindle Books
Evangelicals are the top highlighters of Kindle books. Five of the top ten highlighted books are Bibles or Christian books (Radical by David Platt is no. 9): Three self-help books, one debauched fiction title (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and one crazy piece of conspiracy fiction (The DaVinci Code) round out the list. Evangelicals are the most readily recognizable presence on the list—they may even be the reason The DaVinci Code made it! I wonder if evangelicals made it so high because,...