All Are Yours, But You Have Only One Father
My pastor preached a message last night on 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 which I thought showed great insight into how the Internet has affected Christianity—and what Paul says we should do about it. Here are my notes to that sermon. Party Heads Immediately after Paul’s greetings and his thanksgiving for the grace of God in the lives of the Corinthians, he tackles the issue of division. It’s such an important issue that it takes him four chapters to cover it all, and he relates it to many other...
Recommended Books
Not too long ago my pastor decided to recommend to his congregation one book per week for ten weeks. This was the list that resulted: Knowledge of the Holy—A.W. Tozer The Glory of Christ—John Owen The Everlasting Righteousness—Horatius Bonar The Shadow of the Cross—Walter Chantry Not By Chance—Layton Talbert God’s Passion for His Glory—Jonathan Edwards & John Piper Spiritual Depression—D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Puritan Golden Treasury—I.D.E. Thomas Golden Booklet of the True Christian...
Seminary Project Lab Workshops and Live Webcast
The following is a promo for Duncan Johnson’s sure-to-be-valuable lectures. I strongly urge guys training for the ministry to go to or watch at least the first two. I use a different system than Zotero, but if you have no system, go to the third one as well! Saturday, October 9, 9:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. ML 3 Technology Classroom Turning in quality seminary projects is hard work, and technological challenges don't make it any easier. The Mack Library is offering three workshop labs for...
American Evangelical Protestants are Blissful People
I guess my BJU Bible education and my stints as religious newsletter editor, religion researcher, Bible textbook author, and blogger have all been worthwhile, because I’m not ashamed to say that I aced the Pew Research Center’s 15-question Religious Knowledge Quiz. I’m ashamed to say, however, that white evangelical Protestants as a whole did worse than Jews, Atheists/Agnostics, and Mormons, and if evangelicals beat the overall population I’m guessing their victory may only just squeak...
Another Verse in the KJV You Probably Don’t Understand Either
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? (Hab 2:18 KJV) Is “the graven image” a direct object of “profiteth” or the subject of “profiteth”? In contemporary English syntax it reads most naturally as a direct object. “What profits the graven image?” Or we might say, “What brings benefit to the graven image?” But Habakkuk didn’t mean that. He meant, as all the...