Practical Questions about Original Language Study in Sermon Prep
A questions from someone who watched my Asia Center for Advanced Christian Studies lecture on Original Languages (click here and here for related blog posts): Most pastors I know have only about 6 hours max, maybe 8, to prepare a message and most need to prepare 3 messages a week. We want to spend more time in the original text, but if they are like me, I spend most of my time reading and re-reading the text in the ESV & HCSB, making sure I understand the context and authorial intent,...
Nice Sale on Good Books by Good People
I read all three of these books to my kids, and they're all on sale at Audible for great prices. $10 for the whole series, almost 17 hours of car travel time covered. Our favorite was definitely Ember Falls. The only problem is that you won't get the great pencil illustrations from my brilliant friend Zach Franzen. So weigh that.
Final Lecture for Asia Center for Advanced Christian Studies
In which I take students through How to Think about Others' Exegetical Fallacies and then talk through some portions of my dissertation that focused on ἀγάπη (agape) and what it "really" means. No, like, for real this time.
Two Lectures for the Asia Center for Advanced Christian Studies
I recently gave two more lectures (or four, depending on how you count the material in these two two-hour videos) for this interesting project run by respected friends:
Review: John McWhorter’s Words on the Move
I've gone through two of John McWhorter's Great Courses on language; I've read several of his books, and I'm a faithful listener to his podcast. When I picked up this book I suddenly realized, "I know just what he's going to say. I get John McWhorter." I put the book down after two chapters. But a testimony to his consummate skill as a popularizer and communicator is that I couldn't help myself and I finished the book anyway. And then, particularly with regard to back-shifting, McWhorter...