Here's the ESV for James 5:14-15: 14 Is anyone among you sick (ἀσθενεῖ)? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick (κάμνοντα), and the...
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Zechariah, Congressional Deadlock, and God’s Providence
I was reading in Zechariah last night in my single-column Books of the Bible, and I was struck by this statement from God about Jerusalem: This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Now hear these words, ‘Let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.’ This is...
The Bitter Cup
I tried to track down the following classic quote from Spurgeon, and the best I could do was a reference deep in the recesses of the Internet to his sermon "Woe and Weal" on Micah 7:9. It would be a very sharp and trying experience to me to think that I have an...
Pittsburgh Bishop Is Ousted – NYTimes.com
Picked this up from the New York Times, an AP story. Bishop Duncan, who led the Pittsburgh diocese for 11 years, is a leader in a national network of theological conservatives who are breaking away from the liberal denomination in a dispute over Scripture.[From...
What Is Unicode? Part III.1
If you want to use Unicode in your dissertation, let's say, but you don't want to have to go back through the whole thing yourself to change all the Greek or Hebrew over, check out this list of Unicode converters.
The Left Just Doesn’t Get Religion
Abortion has gone from an unfortunate necessity to a positive (eugenic, I suppose) good for the Left: So while I respect Palin's decision to raise Trig, that's all the respect she will get from me. I don't see eye-to-eye with her on anything else: energy, guns, sex...
Must-See Sermons – washingtonpost.com
The Washington Post has a sad article about the depths to which evangelical pastors will go to be whatever relevant happens to mean at the moment. Throughout the summer the pastor of this AG church watched the top-grossing movie of the previous week and then preached...
What is Unicode? Part I
If you type in Greek and Hebrew—or plan to or should—you need to know about Unicode. What is Unicode? Maybe the simplest answer is this: Unicode is a way to type in any human script—from Sanskrit to Greek, from Cyrillic to Hebrew—without changing the font you’re...
What is Unicode? Part III
Parts I and II of this series are available here and here. The Mac portion of this post was updated with the help of friend and fellow BJU PhD grad Jon Cheek on 12/05/2019. How to Install Unicode For even more information on Unicode fonts, check out David...
That’s It! Thank You, First Things!
First Things is a Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life. It's for thoughtful people, by thoughtful people. I want to be one of those, so I read it sometimes. Here's R.R. Reno, features editor of First Things: I’m very thankful that I don’t have a television....
What is Unicode? Part II
In Part I of "What is Unicode?" we learned why Unicode will help you, my target audience, type Greek and Hebrew. Now let's get more specific. When you hit the "a" key on your keyboard, your computer tells Microsoft Word, let's say, to output not "a" but "0041." Then...
A Great Quote from Carl Henry in a 1991 Video Lecture
Carl Henry, in the second video on this page, paints a clear picture of the modernism that, he says (and I agree), co-opted the American church at the turn of the last century. He even uses a little appropriate humor: Modernism’s deepest assumption was that the...