A helpful comment from the aforesaid:
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Another Good Comment by R.T. France
I see some echoes of pithy OT commentator Derek Kidner in R.T. France’s comments on the Sermon on the Mount. I thought this was an excellent set of comments on Matthew 7:7–8, “Ask and it shall be given…; seek and you will find…; knock and the door will be opened.” The...
Eustace
That tiresome old bother, Eustace, makes a royal nuisance of himself throughout the opening chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. But then Aslan gives Eustace a severe mercy: he turns him into a dragon. He shows everyone, including Eustace himself, what is in...
John Frame and Rand Hummel
Ever since I read John Frame I started seeing threes everywhere. His triperspectivalism has a way of worming into your brain and growing a secret third eye. My wife and I even decided to have a baby—three Wards in one house! It’s kind of creepy. So whenever I hear...
A Point I Never Noticed in the Lord’s Prayer
I’ve prayed the Lord’s Prayer throughout my life both verbatim and, more often, as a template. I’ve also sung it many times in a great men’s quartet arrangement of the Malotte setting. But I never noticed a simple point about the first line that numbers of...
News Flash: D.A. Carson Makes an Insightful Point!
Carson comments on Matthew 6:7, in which Jesus warns kingdom pray-ers, “Use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do.” His point is that his disciples should avoid meaningless, repetitive prayers offered under the misconception that mere length will make prayers...
An Apt Comment from R.T. France on Matthew 6
Each major section of Matthew 6 (the second of the three chapters relating the Sermon on the Mount) contrasts earthly and heavenly rewards. The unregenerate are known for their pursuit of earthly treasures and earthly rewards. Kingdom citizens are notable for their...
Head, Heart, and Compatibilism
I just picked up a review copy of John Piper's Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God, because his views on the relationship between thinking and feeling have some bearing on my preparation for the dissertation defense. As always with Piper, I was struck by...
Global Warming and ADD
Do you believe in global climate change? Is it a serious threat to world health and peace foisted on us by a century and a half of greedy robber barons, or is it an emperor’s-new-clothes fruit of left-wing self-hatred? How about ADD? Is it an excuse for permissive...
Mark Minnick—Preserving the Truth Conference Plenary Session, 10 am
These notes are a little late, too, but since the sermon is available for free here I felt that posting the notes now wouldn’t hurt. J.C. Ryle has said that those who are not true Christians have always refused to come out of the world. And some prominent evangelicals...
What Is the Chief End of Man?
Not to have one’s life organized in view of some end is a mark of much folly. —Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, 1241 (translated by Jonathan Barnes)
Kevin Bauder—A Fundamentalism Worth Saving Takes the Human Condition Seriously
I know this is a bit late, but the breaks were so short at the Preserving the Truth Conference that I had a hard time getting to the gym to post my updates. And then I let this sit… Anyway, here are my notes from one of Kevin Bauder’s plenary sessions, the one at 9 am...