The TNIV and The Books of the Bible 2
When I showed my truly wonderful, open-minded boss my new TNIV without verse numbers and chapter numbers, he said, "Hmm. This is not a step forward." I said, "I think it is." I explained how with my new Bible you don't have verse numbers and chapter numbers determining where your mind will place breaks. You're free to read the Bible in the way most conducive to understanding for a modern Westerner. Admittedly, the paragraphing and section spacing in my new numberless Bible were placed there by...
The TNIV and The Books of the Bible
I've seen the power that preaching with a sound hermeneutic can have. Just one effect of a pulpit ministry based on solid exegesis is that listeners develop skill in reading the Bible for themselves. But most printed Bibles do good hermeneutics a disservice. Good hermeneutics says, "Always read the context!" Printed Bibles, however, make that difficult by making every verse its own paragraph: Bolding the verse number at the head of each paragraph, as some Bible editions do, doesn't help much....
Church websites
I'm designing a new church website and promotional materials for Cleveland Park Baptist Church in nearby Spartanburg, and as part of my preparation I just surveyed some of the work others are doing in this field. I came across a site which I was impressed with, MyChurchWebsite.com. Their design is relatively spare and clean. It looks a bit formulaic (and I only mean a bit) after you look at a lot of their work, but no one surfing to an individual church's website would know that. I have often...
Logos and comps study
Logos has become a daily companion to me in my studies, and I received special profit from it during recent comprehensive exam studies. Here's a selection of works I used to study textual criticism and New Testament introduction (these works came with Scholar's Gold, some Theological Journal Library volumes, and the BECNT and WBC sets): Guthrie's NT Introduction Darrel Bock's BECNT volume on Luke Bill Mounce in the WBC on the Pastorals JETS and WTJ articles and reviews by Grant Osborne, Moisés...
Kidner on Ezra
Derek Kidner has been a very helpful commentator for me. I know his works (at least the ones I'm familiar with) aren't technical, but I don't always need technical. He's rare among his breed for having such pleasing prose. His style seems just perfect for the OT books on which I've read his comments. More important, of course, he honors the Lord. I thought this little section from his commentary on Ezra 6 (the story where Tattenai tries to stop the Jews from building the temple by telling...