Here are links to Mark Dever's nine sermons on the 9 Marks of a Healthy Church. I recently saw Mark Minnick, my pastor, recommend this material in Frontline. And I myself have been listening to Dever's interviews and deeply profiting from them for several years now....
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Answer a Fool According to His Folly
Ok, readers—all four of you (according to Google Analytics), whoever you are. I want some feedback. I wrote the following for the Bible Reading Program being put out for high school students by BJU Press. This is part of my introduction to Proverbs, and I need help...
Latitude and Longitude, Google Earth/Maps, and Bible Geography
I just went on a little adventure with latitude and longitude. I had a bunch of coordinates in full form for the BJU Press Bible Truths D Teacher's Edition: 33º 40' 44.98" N 30' 24' 58.61" E But neither Google Earth nor Google Maps reads these full form coordinates,...
Installing Logos Resources Without a Lot of Rigmarole
I just bought the Theological Journal Library, vols. 1-10. I had 1-8, so the upgrade only cost me 80 bucks or so direct from Galaxie Software. Great resource. I find I use the book reviews a lot, and frequently I avoid a trip to the library by looking up a citation on...
A Unabomber Victim Speaks Out
(Ok, this post isn't what you're thinking based on the title, but I thought it might grab your interest. Gelerntner was a Unabomber victim.) David Gelerntner, professor of computer science at Yale, has just written a great article on the generic "he" and all its...
Why Don’t More Conservatives Get Ph.D.’s?
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education mentions some of the findings from a study done by a mixed-political-affiliation couple asking why conservatives don't get Ph.D.'s as often as liberals. The couple, Matthew Woessner and April Kelly-Woessner issued their...
Luke Timothy Johnson in a Fairminded Quotation
One of the most memorable and important quotations in the debates over homosexuality in the church: Luke Timothy Johnson, New Testament professor at Emory University, has openly admitted what few liberal Christian defenders of homosexuality will: “I think it important...
A Clear and Present Word by Mark D. Thompson
I've been reading a fantastic book called A Clear and Present Word: The Clarity of Scripture by Moore Theological College's Mark D. Thompson. It's part of the New Studies in Biblical Theology series, edited by D.A. Carson. Moore Theological College brings a few names...
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 to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. The Majority View D.A. Carson, in a long review of three recent bibliology books, says he has often used...
Fair Is Fair
Ok, I caught the NAS adding some interpretation into its translation at a place (Prov. 26:5) where the NIV (and TNIV) were more literal: NAS Answer a fool as his folly deserves, That he not be wise in his own eyes. NIV Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will...
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. Layton Talbert give on humor: The biblical record does not reveal a frivolous or slapstick sense of humor. “The humor of the Bible is not of the...
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 separate some of my friends—your brothers and sisters in Christ—from you. And perhaps to separate them from me, now that...