Jesus’ Temptations in the Wilderness: An in-depth study
May 5, 2009
‘Muslim calligrapher writes Gospel of Luke for pope’
May 1, 2009
‘Old Testament Jews would memorize the Torah by age 10. In contrast, only 59% of today’s U.S. Protestants read the Bible weekly.’
April 30, 2009
A striking post by Kent Shaffer at 22 Words
Shaffer’s blog, Church Relevance
“Should only ‘teachers’ study theology?”
March 23, 2009
Nathan W. Bingham, Cal.vini.st
The Bible’s Everest
February 23, 2009
By David Mathis
The last 12 verses of Romans 8 (verses 28-39) are the biblical Himalayas, and Romans 8:32 is Mount Everest.
[God] did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Stand in awe of this verse. Step back and view the whole range, and then focus your gaze on the highest peak. And then reorient your thinking about life’s hardest times and deepest pains.
The reason why Romans 8:32 is so breathtakingly amazing is that it combines all the most massive promises of God for his people with the (seemingly) simple reality of the gospel. In Romans 8:32, the apostle Paul takes God’s most far-reaching, hope-giving, life-changing promises and supports them the central Christian message of the gospel.
Bill Mounce: Eph. 4:29 should be applied online
February 17, 2009
We are Barabbas
January 26, 2009
38 “What is truth?” Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. 39 But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
40 They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in a rebellion. - Jn 18
Barabbas. A rebel. Maybe a killer. Perhaps a derelict of society. An outcast. He would possibly die for his crimes. I wonder what he thought in prison. “Well, this is it. I screwed it up so bad that this might be the end. If they don’t kill me, I might as well kill myself because I will be a prisoner for a long time.” Maybe he thought of escape. Maybe he played with the idea of killing the guard and running away. Maybe he had given up hope. “I messed this up, now I am responsible to pay for my actions.” Maybe he tried to think of a loophole. There was none. Or was there?
From In Memoriam, XXXI
January 22, 2009
By Alfred Lord Tennyson (Courtesy of Rebecca Stark)
When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
And home to Mary’s house return’d,
Was this demanded — if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
“Where wert thou, brother, those four days?”
There lives no record of reply,
Which telling what it is to die
Had surely added praise to praise.
From every house the neighbours met,
The streets were fill’d with joyful sound,
A solemn gladness even crown’d
The purple brows of Olivet.
Behold a man raised up by Christ!
The rest remaineth unreveal’d;
He told it not; or something seal’d
The lips of that Evangelist.
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How does God ‘discipline’ his children, according to the Greek of Hebrews 12:3-11?
December 23, 2008
Greek scholar Bill Mounce offers an explanation at the Koinonia blog:
“Paideuo has another meaning that is not necessarily connected to punishment. It is a standard word for child-rearing …”
Everything’s better in Koine [Greek]!
December 23, 2008
Funny video (HT: C. Michael Patton):
Video created by by Derek North and Nick Casucci at Biola University.
2008’s debates
December 22, 2008
A list of the 13 debates that James White has participated in this last year has been posted by by Tur8infan.
When was Christmas, really?
December 15, 2008
New Testament scholar Darrell Bock has the skinny:
“The most we can get for the biblical data is a range of years.”
Top five commentaries on Ephesians
December 15, 2008
A list by Keith Mathison at Ligonier Ministries.
Remember Martha?
December 11, 2008
A reminder to distracted women is posted at girltalk. (I suppose it would apply to distracted men too.)
Darrell Bock on Newsweek’s gay marriage article
December 11, 2008
Bock, Research Professor of New Testament Greek at Dallas Seminary, issues the first in a series of posts entitled, “Haircuts, Public Homilies, News Magazines, and Gay Marriage: A Look at the Case from Newsweek Issue.”
“I have been interviewed by Lisa [Miller, Newsweek writer] and know her to be a competent reporter on religion. One way to respond to this effort is to simply react at how liberal and “agenda driven” the American media is. But that is too easy a response and skips over the debate that needs to take place.”
Read the full post.
