BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

BY FAITH WE UNDERSTAND

Proof of what is unseen.

ABOUT MARK WARD

Keyboard Shortcuts, Or Nirvana Is Getting Crowded

I love keyboard shortcuts. When I was a child, I eschewed DOS in favor of the wonders of GUI! I thought: why type on the keyboard when you can click with a mouse! But—as the green lady in C.S. Lewis's Perelandra would say—"I am older now," so I use the keyboard for as much as possible. My skills even came in handy in a life-or-death situation when I forgot to bring a mouse to hook up to my iMac to run my wedding photo slideshow at our reception! But keyboard shortcuts only go so far because...

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Free Commentaries by Actual Scholars!

I picked up this free commentary within minutes of its release, but I neglected to tell you... Please forgive me! It looks like a slightly beefed up BKC, or maybe a slightly beefed down EBC. Looks, in fact, like a Tyndale series commentary (some of which, especially in the OT, are fantastic no matter what level of scholarship you're working on). Bock, of course, is someone whose work in the Gospels I have come very much to appreciate (see his blog and this two-volume Luke commentary). He's a...

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Two Romantic Textual Criticism Stories—Really!

The Israeli Antiquities Authority is going to put the Dead Sea Scrolls online in amazingly high-quality digital format. In addition, the half-century-old infrared photographs will go up. Have you never read the romantic story of the release of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Marty Abegg, Biblical Archaeological Review, and the Huntington Library? Don't miss it! Something else you may have missed: Sinaiticus is already out there on a very cool site. Have you never read the romantic story of the finding...

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Why I’m Writing My Dissertation

This comes from a high school Bible textbook (teacher's edition, in this case) which I read recently: The unsaved, and even some Christians, tend to view love as an emotion. Biblical love, however, involves commitment. It desires the best for others, and gives selflessly so that others may prosper. Without love, all Christian service is worthless (I Cor. 13:1-3). Love is the very essence of God's law (Rom. 13:8-10). Note to your students this difference between the worldly and biblical views...

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ESV Study Bible

The ESV Study Bible comes out soon. Check it out. Click below. Again I'm not sure if I'm going to spend my book budget on this, but I do want my family to have it. Maybe I can persuade my wife to spend part of the (i.e., her) furnishings budget on it!

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