A Wealthy Jew and Christian Apologetics
The New York Times' Deborah Solomon just interviewed a very wealthy Jewish man, Edgar M. Bronfman, Sr., whose new book Hope Not Fear bills itself as A Path to Jewish Renaissance. Listen in on the conversation: Solomon: In your book, you seek to define Judaism as something besides religious belief. Bronfman: I don’t believe in the God of the Old Testament, but I am happy with my Judaism, without that. If you take the spiritual element out of Judaism, what is left? Some would say the rest is...
BestCommentaries.com
I've already linked to this site before, but I have to mention it again because I've gotten some very good use out of it in just a few weeks. It's a real go-to. You get free information from several solid commentary recommendation books (Carson, Derek Thomas, Glynn, Longman, Rosscup). These are the sources you should be checking—and mostly trusting!—anyway. And the information is collected in a very convenient and attractive format. You can browse by series and by Bible book. You can look up...
Mazak on Mazak’s View
Dr. Greg Mazak has posted a comment in the thread about his own sermon. Check it out here. I'm honored to have Dr. Mazak, a person who once played ultimate frisbee with our regular crew here at BJ, comment on my humble blog!
Greg Mazak on James 5:14-15
Here's the ESV for James 5:14-15: 14 Is anyone among you sick (ἀσθενεῖ)? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick (κάμνοντα), and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. All the major English translations (24 that I checked, anyway) agree, translating ἀσθενεῖ and κάμνοντα with "sick" or "ill" (Tyndale's "defeated" in v. 14...
Zechariah, Congressional Deadlock, and God’s Providence
I was reading in Zechariah last night in my single-column Books of the Bible, and I was struck by this statement from God about Jerusalem: This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Now hear these words, ‘Let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.’ This is also what the prophets said who were present when the foundation was laid for the house of the Lord Almighty. Before that time there were no wages for people or animals. People could not go about their business safely because of...