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Logos 4 Word Study on γάγα

I’m gaga over Logos 4. Immediate clarification: BibleWorks is still my first love, and I still think both programs are worth having and work complementarily. Logos 4 is still far too slow, even on my brand-new laptop, in its Bible searches. And I like the BibleWorks...

Quiz Answers

At Rubén Gómez’s request, here are the answers to all the questions in my BibleWorks Pop Quiz. I included the commands I used. If I’ve overlooked a better command or made some error, I’m happy to hear about it in the comments. 1. Find all ESV occurrences in Paul of...

The Good Samaritan and ἀγάπη

A little tip for word study in the Bible: Don't think that you have exhausted the topic of "love" when you have looked up and studied every passage in which "love" appears—or even every passage in which forms of ἀγαπάω or φιλέω appear. No one word, Greek or English,...

Homosexuality, Serpents, and Doves

The tag-line for BJU's What in the World! newsletter is "helping believers be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." I borrowed, of course, the words of Jesus in Matt. 10:16 as He sends His disciples out on a preaching tour. Every sinful age demands that Christ's...

President Obama’s Nobel Speech

I finally got around to reading President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech, and I commend it to you. David Brooks made the interesting point that Obama, though certainly a political liberal, did not speak like a secularist. He talks freely of higher-order purposes. He...

Just Do It!

I just finished Kevin DeYoung’s Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God’s Will (sub-subtitle: How to Make a Decision Without Dreams, Visions, Fleeces, Open Doors, Random Bible Verses, Casting Lots, Liver Shivers, Writing in the Sky, etc.), and I came...

Wikipedia and Ponies

I did it. I gave $ 10 to Wikipedia. I use the service 20-40 times a day, so it's about time I ponied up. Click below to join me.

Tolerance as a Defense Mechanism

Stanley Fish is always provocative and thoughtful in his New York Times blog. I presume his books bear the same qualities, though I've only ever picked up his most famous. Gilbert Meilaender recently reviewed in First Things a new Fish book addressed to college...

“Emotional” < “Analytical”

Jennifer Senior writes in a New York Magazine article about how pro-choice our nation isn’t, The pro-choice movement has always had the harder job. The choice argument is an analytical one, grounded in theories of privacy and the rights of the mother; the pro-life...

The Anglican Mission in the Third Millennium

Anglicanism is at times beautiful and rich, wicked and nonsensical, funny and sad: Some years ago, in conversation with a prominent Anglican bishop in Britain, I asked how he would define the mission of the Church of England. After a pause for thought, he said, “I...

Usage determines meaning, literally.

I really enjoyed this essay on that poor, abused English word "literally." If you'll read it carefully you'll get a very helpful point for Bible interpretation as well as parlor talk. Note, too, that "wrongainey," one of the four known thoughtful commenters on the...