Thrilla in Greenvilla, Round 3
I challenged my good friend Brian Collins to a public discussion: electronic books vs. paper books. I started off by listing all the stuff I'd bought from Logos and other electronic sources. (I got one moderately nasty comment that I did not post, someone marveling at how much I'd spent. Remember that 1) I was single during most of those purchases, 2) I was in the foundational stages of building my ministerial library, and 3) a third of the money I spent came from one gift at the end of my...
Free Cartoon Fridays (Sep 18): “Recooperating”
Welcome back to Free Cartoon Friday! Check back each week for a free cartoon I failed to sell to Christian pastors' magazines in 2005! Click image for full size.https://byfaithweunderstand.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/07-recooperate.png
George vs. (?) Beckwith
I found this video deeply disturbing and disappointing. I love the gospel, and to see it obscured by a former ETS president and the author of an excellent commentary on Galatians—of all books—was a painful frustration. In the discussion, held before an audience at Wheaton College, Timothy George, a Southern Baptist ecumenist, talks with Frances Beckwith, the ETS president who reverted to Roman Catholism three years ago. In Galatians 2, Paul describes how he opposed Peter (yes, that Peter)...
Another Note from the Tilt-A-Whirl
This book is just full of bons mots: The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood. —N. D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl
BJU Seminary Retreat
The Father of lights gave a good gift to me this past weekend, a retreat to the Wilds with most of my fellow BJU Seminary students. I enjoyed the preaching, the God-honoring music, the many discussions with individual professors, the conversations with other students, the faculty testimonies, and even the Q&A session (something I often find myself dreading in similar gatherings). Dr. Hankins, president of the Seminary, did a fine job of corralling the Q&A, trying to keep it on track...