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  • I’ve turned byfaithweunderstand.com into an advertisement for Forward Design. Check it out.
    April 26, 2011
  • I read the Sermon on the Mount often as a child—mainly because I thought it was cool that it was…
    April 22, 2011
  • I can read English, Spanish, Greek, Hebrew, German, and Latin, in that order of fluidity. Truth be known, my German…
    April 19, 2011
  • I checked, and only a few of the cool people—by no means all—are using Instapaper. I’m here to change that.…
    April 18, 2011
  • One of the most popular linguistic and exegetical fallacies in modern times is that the Greek word for love, agapao,…
    April 14, 2011
  • A few weeks ago I got word that my dissertation defense had been moved; it's now set for Monday afternoon,…
    April 9, 2011
  • Do you ever stumble over the difficulty of some of the words of Scripture? It’s not just obscure places and…
    April 8, 2011
  • The Society of Biblical Literature has a series of standard abbreviations for Bible books. I particularly appreciate the fact that…
    April 7, 2011
  • Back in September of 2003 I had this problem, see. I would often paste text into Microsoft Word that included…
    April 7, 2011
  • You’ll want to read this carefully (I added paragraph divisions to help you do so): It often comes as an…
    April 5, 2011
  • NPR yesterday ran a story about capital punishment in Connecticut. Apparently, the state may possibly get rid of the death…
    March 31, 2011
  • Do not for the sake of reward love God; let Him be the reward. —Augustine (Philip Schaff, The Nicene and…
    March 28, 2011
  • Last week my wife was sick. So sick that she could hardly get off the couch for about three days.…
    March 28, 2011
  • I have a system of highlighting that I have used for several years now that helps me. It’s a free…
    March 25, 2011
  • I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top…
    March 21, 2011
  • If you aren't meticulous in your note-taking, always using quotation marks and saving your full citation, you might accidentally do…
    March 19, 2011
  • I’ve watched the blogosphere morph and grow over time; I think I became a regular blog-reader in 2001 or 2002.…
    March 16, 2011
  • The New York Times' Jon Pareles today in a perceptive article: It’s some kind of milestone: Three of the Top…
    March 15, 2011
  • A minister, about to write an article criticizing a fellow minister for his lack of orthodoxy, wrote to John Newton…
    March 15, 2011
  • I need your help. If not now, when? If not you, who else? The other reader of this blog?! But…
    March 12, 2011