My Loose Paraphrase of Hebrews 12:1-3
Remember all of the people in the “Hall of Faith” chapter, Hebrews 11? They’re watching us run our race. So let’s shed the things that aren’t helping us run well—namely the sin that so quickly weighs us down. And let’s run with endurance the race God gave us. If we need motivation, we can turn our eyes upon Jesus—just like He turned His eyes on His future reward when He faced the cross. He was patient even through the hostility of people He died to save, and meditating on that can give you...
Black Friday
It was a black Friday indeed, but I had to do it. I sold my MacBook and bought a Sony Vaio. I have to have BibleWorks and Logos 4, and my somewhat older MacBook just wasn’t able to handle virtualizing Windows anymore. Rather than shell out $100-plus for a copy of Vista or 7 to run in Bootcamp, I just sold out and took advantage of BestBuy’s major Black Friday doorbuster, a Sony Vaio (320GB 4GB Intel Dual Core 2.10 GHz) for just $400. I had to order it at 6 am Thanksgiving Day to get it,...
BibleWorks Pop Quiz
Want to keep your BibleWorks skills sharp? I formulated the following pop-quiz questions for my BibleWorks seminar a few weeks ago: Find all ESV occurrences in Paul of words beginning in, but not the word in. How many Greek OT verses are there with the forms κυριος AND θεος? How many Greek OT verses are there with the lemmas κυριος AND θεος? What's the difference between these two searches? BGM .ιησους and BGT .ιησους How many times does the word translated "creation" in Genesis 1:1 appear in...
NY Times and Total Depravity
Yesterday I opened up the New York Times home page and the main article struck me: Science has now proclaimed that total depravity and original sin are untenable. Science, in fact, provides a better answer than Christianity to all of life's questions, according to Frans de Waal, a scientist quoted in the article: Biology constitutes our greatest hope. One can only shudder at the thought that the humaneness of our societies would depend on the whims of politics, culture or religion. Three good...
Pistis Faith Movement
I thought I was breaking new ground with my Pistis Faith post, but, sadly, someone else appears to have beaten me to it. Either that or I've started a movement.