Kathy Bell’s Art Show
If you're in the Greenville, SC area, you need to check out the show that's currently up in the Sargent Art Building. It has to be my favorite of all the dozens I've seen there over the years. My old calligraphy teacher, Mrs. Kathy Bell (wife of Bob Bell, my Hebrew teacher, and mother of David Bell, my Freshman English teacher), has produced God-glorifyingly creative, beautiful, skillful pieces that were a thrill to experience. Her work is classic without being stodgy, and it was a trip to see...
The New New International Version
The much-maligned TNIV will be no more. A newly revised NIV will come out in 2011, the 400th anniversary of the release of the KJV. I did not realize that the NIV had not been updated since I was in preschool. The NIV is the most popular Bible translation in English, and it is always worth checking during Bible study because its somewhat more interpretive renderings do—despite what I grew up hearing—come from a basically conservative evangelical background. For example, the spokesman for the...
Biblical Love
First Corinthians 13:4–7 is a list of fifteen specific actions that love performs on behalf of other believers. That should immediately dispel the notion that love is primarily a feeling or an emotion. Although true love will carry emotion with it sometimes, feeling is not a necessary ingredient of love, nor is it the basis. Therefore, biblical love is not a feeling: it's an action.1 A blog named after love has a duty to define love correctly. Or at least, this blog-named-after-love does. The...
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Theology, tech, theology tech.
Sound Advice on BibleWorks, Logos, and Accordance
I agree with this guy. If you are wondering which Bible software to buy, his advice will help. I'll add one other thing: if you like keyboard shortcuts and overall computer quickness, BibleWorks beats Logos. Ok, one more thing: I have BibleWorks and Logos, and I don't feel I wasted my money. I buy BibleWorks for the searching and original language tools; I get Logos for the commentaries, books, journals, and reference works. Admittedly, there's some overlap in the capabilities of the two...