Evangelism
I have been active in various forms of evangelism for many years now, but most of my activity has been focused on the lower-income kids populating the many depressed neighborhoods around my church. I've preached the gospel many dozens of times to groups of lost kids from 2 to 60. I did it again last night at our church's Cola Wars outreach. I've also shared the gospel personally hundreds of times. And yet—with the possible exception of two or three of my campers at the Wilds nine years ago—no...
Music You Should Try
I love music. I love choral music, especially. I love a cappella choral music, especially especially. And you should like it, too. It's so pure: only God-given instruments. Ah... the pleasure of a rich chord composed by a master musician and sung by a world-class choir! You'll get that at least somewhere in all of the following CDs—sometimes on every track. Pärt is one of my very favorites. "Dopo la Vittoria" is beautiful on this CD, a Grammy winner, incidentally. And here he goes again....
Zondervan and Nelson Foisting Mistranslations of the Bible onto an Unsuspecting Public?
It follows. If you really believe the quite common arguments from gay would-be Christians (may God truly have mercy on them), then someone is guilty of foisting harmful mistranslations of the Bible onto the public. The man named in the news item below is only following these arguments to their logical conclusion. He appears to really believe what he's saying. A gay man has sued Zondervan and Thomas Nelson, two Christian publishing houses, for publishing Bible translations that refer to...
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Bible Software in the Classroom
My teachers didn't go through school with Bible software. Yours probably didn't either. If you're a seminary student (my target audience for this blog), that means you're part of the first generation of students to have the power of BibleWorks at your fingertips not only for papers but for class time—even personal devotions. Who's going to be your model for how you use Bible software? I almost answered, "Your model shouldn't be a Logos salesperson." But then I remembered my respected friend...