Ok, Ok… I’m a Bit Excited, Too
I'm looking forward to the release of the ESV Study Bible. I'm wondering only why a study Bible needs articles on the following issues: Roman Catholicism (Gregg R. Allison) Eastern Orthodoxy (Robert Letham) Liberal Protestantism (Bruce A. Ware) Evangelical Protestantism (Bruce A. Ware) Evangelical Protestantism and Global Christianity (Harold A. Netland) The Bible and Contemporary Judaism (Marvin R. Wilson) The Bible and Other World Religions (Harold A. Netland) The Bible and Islam (Timothy C....
Hebrew Helps (Especially for BJU Seminary Students)
My friend Josh Young, a fellow Mount Calvary member and BJ Seminary student, recently sent me a set of helps for learning the vocabulary list required here in our Hebrew program. I was never a flash-card guy myself, but you may be. If you are, he's done some great work for you! Here are his descriptions of what is included in the zip file which you can get by clicking Hebrew Helps 2.2.zip: A 44-page PDF document that can be printed on cardstock at Bellis for just a little over 8 dollars. It...
What Is Unicode? Part III.1
If you want to use Unicode in your dissertation, let's say, but you don't want to have to go back through the whole thing yourself to change all the Greek or Hebrew over, check out this list of Unicode converters.
The Left Just Doesn’t Get Religion
Abortion has gone from an unfortunate necessity to a positive (eugenic, I suppose) good for the Left: So while I respect Palin's decision to raise Trig, that's all the respect she will get from me. I don't see eye-to-eye with her on anything else: energy, guns, sex education and of course a woman's right to choose. Her supporters say that Trig signals that she practices what she preaches. Her decision to make her own choice but not grant it to others is a sign of her hypocrisy.[From Sarah...
Must-See Sermons – washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post has a sad article about the depths to which evangelical pastors will go to be whatever relevant happens to mean at the moment. Throughout the summer the pastor of this AG church watched the top-grossing movie of the previous week and then preached his sermon based on that movie. He even dressed up like the characters, including Robert Downey Jr.'s blackface character in "Tropic Thunder" and Heath Ledger's Joker in "Dark Knight." He prayed for insight to get a biblical...