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Answer Not a Fool / Answer a Fool
Prov. 26:4-5, ESVAnswer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according…
February 5, 2008
Fair Is Fair
Ok, I caught the NAS adding some interpretation into its translation at a place (Prov. 26:5) where the NIV (and…
February 5, 2008
New York Times’ Kristof on Evangelicals
Nick Kristof is a very entertaining and informative columnist/opinion-writer/humanitarian/world-traveler. I was quite excited when the New York Times made its…
February 3, 2008
A Little More on Humor and Pulpit Dignity
A friend of mine passed these points along from a more-developed version of a lecture I'd heard BJ Seminary's Dr.…
February 1, 2008
Mark Dever on Acts 29 and Paul and Salon.com on Dignity
Here's Mark Dever speaking to the Mark Driscoll-related Acts 29 church-planting network yesterday (emphasis mine): Our differences are enough to…
January 31, 2008
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes 6
"Modern popular culture is not just the latest in a series of diversions. It is rather a culture of diversion,"…
January 31, 2008
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes 5
Ken Myers calls the "Music Comparison Chart" idea ("if you like artist 'A' in secular music, then there's a good…
January 30, 2008
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes 4
What's so wrong with pop culture? It may not necessarily be the content of its TV shows, movies, and music,…
January 25, 2008
Christian Response to “A Common Word”
Because it would not be responsible for me just to accept the word of the video I transcribed in the…
January 23, 2008
The best response I’ve seen to “A Common Word”
Below I've included a transcript I made (because I needed to have the text for a non-blog reason) of a…
January 23, 2008
Liberty, License, Legalism
I recently recommended a message by my pastor, Mark Minnick. Here are my notes from that message, taken on my…
January 23, 2008
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes 2
"Popular culture, like the meat offered to idols in 1 Corinthians 10," says Ken Myers, "is a part of the…
January 22, 2008
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes 1
Ken Myers is the richly pleasing voice—and the far-ranging mind—behind the Mars Hill Audio Journal. He wrote a book in…
January 21, 2008
TNIV and blogging protocol
I appreciated the following comment and thought it worth a posted reply: Hi Mark! It looks like you have a…
January 19, 2008
A filler post, I know
I hope to post a little substance on the TNIV, answering a great comment I got from an SBTS Ph.D.…
January 17, 2008
What in the World! selections, no. 1
I'm planning to provide select excerpts from the What in the World! (WITW) newsletter as a regular feature of this…
January 16, 2008
The status of women in OT times
I just finished reading Ezra and writing about it for tenth graders. I spent a fair amount of time evaluating…
January 14, 2008
Pandora
I just got a recommendation from a friend to try a cool Internet radio station called Pandora. You can set…
January 12, 2008
Quotation
“The more you hang out with monkeys the more you realize just how special people really are.” —a scientist in…
January 11, 2008
The TNIV and The Books of the Bible 3
If you go to "The Books of the Bible" site, don't be put off by the endorsements. It appears that…
January 10, 2008
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