Check out this post from Zondervan's new blog, Koinonia. It describes common errors of Bible interpretation committed against the weakest among us: children. The post is right: children's Bible lessons fly under the hermeneutical radar. I should know; I edit and write them for a living. I predict that most teachers of children would respond to a post like this with, “But these are just kids! We can’t give them high theology! We just need them to connect with simple Bible stories. They can...

As you can see, I've already praised WTS Books on this blog before. I wrote just days ago: Looks like Westminster Bookstore is really vying for my book dollars! I’m impressed with their store layout, their graphic design, their selection, and their sales. Now I'm participating in their BlogPartners program. I'm happy to promote them—and to get some books out of it myself! I just wanted to release one of my motives from the ulterior! I, of course, would never recommend a book unless I truly...

Here's another quotation from an evangelical (!) commentary which inclines me to think that playing on liberal academic turf is neither right nor safe: For convenience, the author of 1 Peter will be referred to throughout the commentary as “Peter.” This practice does not imply that the issue of authorship is by any means settled, yet the question of whether Peter was actually the author cannot be avoided. The author unmistakably introduces himself as “Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ” (1:1). The...

A few months ago I mentioned that one of the most powerful choral experiences I have ever had was during a visit to my school of the choir from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. They gave an impromptu concert in the student center. I stood right in front of them and heard them sing powerfully and skillfully in a beautiful, challenging arrangement: “Kyrie, eleison! Kyrie, eleison!” It was very moving: these people my age, most of them almost certainly far from God, were crying out, “Lord,...