The Wisdom of Men and the Power of God
Read this this morning: And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:3-5 ESV) That immediately made me think of this, which I saw on Quora yesterday: Since when does God's very word have to pass any tests, scientific or chronological? And who determines whether or...
Is Genesis 1-2 Poetry? A Bloggable Thought from the Bible Faculty Summit
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Bible Faculty Summit (here's their brand new website, made last night real late and not quite complete...), held this year at Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. Here's just one bloggable thought coming out of the many extremely stimulating and edifying discussions I enjoyed at the Summit. Phil Brown of God's Bible School and College mentioned that one reason (among many) to read Genesis 1-2 straightforwardly is actually found in Exodus. In...
Classic Fish
Forget Van Til—the secret of his unreadability is out: he actually wrote in Dutch but used English letters! No wonder no one can understand the guy! It's time you got your presuppositionalism the easy and fun way: Stanley Fish. Read this, it's astounding.
Stand Tall and Strong (and Pseudonymously) for What You Believe
Dropbox is one of my favorite tech tools. I rely on it extremely heavily, and it pretty much never lets me down. So when the Dropbox blog, to which I subscribe, announced Dropbox's official support of a gay pride event, I felt—as a faithful, paying customer who has referred many other users to the service—that I had to speak. But we live in a nasty world. Without claiming at all that any individual liberal wishes to commit physical violence against me personally, am I unreasonable to feel...
New Experience with the ESV Reader’s Bible
Neat comments on the ESV Reader's Bible: When I saw that Crossway had published the ESV Reader’s Bible, I must say I was a bit skeptical. “Ahhh, yes,” I thought to myself, “another way to get us ESV affectionados to purchase yet another ESV related product … clever work, Crossway!” But something about the product description and preview kept nagging at me. Add to that, Westminster Bookstore’s competitive price of this handsome cloth-over-board volume and I could no longer resist ordering...