Here’s a schedule for reading the New Testament over the course of a year. For the most part, it tracks pretty closely with Lee Irons’ excellent schedule for reading the Greek New Testament in a year. My plan, however, varies a little bit. Because John’s writing is simpler Greek, my schedule goes through John’s Gospel at a faster pace than Irons’. As a result, there are no readings scheduled at the end of the year from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Eve. These open dates at the end can be used as catch-up days. The schedule is given in two formats below.
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A Word about Salacious Sermonizing
Carl Trueman has an interesting take on the current obsession that evangelical pastors seem to have with sermons on sex. They are becoming increasingly frequent and in some cases bawdy. Trueman writes: The current evangelical obsession with sex seems more like an intrusion of the culture than a priority of scripture… If, for the sake of argument, we were to allow that there might occasionally, just occasionally, be a vague and distant analogy between Hollywood and the church, I wonder if middle-aged pastors writing and speaking about sex is not becoming the evangelical equivalent of forty-something actresses doing nude scenes. Look: your career is in decline, the only cover shoot…
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Ambiguity in NIV’s Rendering of 1 Corinthians 14:13
I’ve been reading through the 2011 NIV New Testament, and today I came across an interesting use of singular “they.” For those just joining this conversation, singular “they” is the use of the third person plural pronoun to refer to a singular antecedent. It is a regular feature of English usage today, and I would wager that every person reading this post uses this expression when they speak.
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Justin Taylor Takes on Bob Costas
Well, I’m sure Justin wouldn’t say the way I did in my title, but this is still a really good take-down of Bob Costas’ logic concerning Tim Tebow. Costas argues that God doesn’t have a hand in who wins or loses football games. Justin says, au contraire, mon frère. Also, Owen Strachan’s excellent post on this subject is the basis for Taylor’s remarks. Go read Owen’s as well.
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A Secular Writer Puzzles over Tebow
I thought this piece from Chuck Klosterman was really fascinating. He is puzzling over how to understand Tebow, his faith, and how it appears that God is rewarding Tebow with unlikely victories. Here’s his conclusion:
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Junia Is a Woman, and I Am a Complementarian
Scot McKnight is one of my favorite egalitarians. We are quite different in our theological perspectives, but he is an all around engaging personality. He is a fantastic New Testament scholar and a prolific writer. His interests are wide-ranging, and he is gifted both at producing serious scholarship and at reaching more popular audiences with his work. In my view, he’s a triple threat: serious scholar, popular blogger, and charismatic speaker. He has a gift for communicating serious ideas to wide audiences. His new little e-book Junia Is Not Alone (Patheos Press, 2011) is no exception. In this little pamphlet, McKnight argues at the popular level in favor of an…
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Text of Tom Schreiner’s ETS Address
Last week I posted the audio of Tom Schreiner’s devotional at the B&H breakfast at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. I am happy to see that The Gospel Coalition now has the text of the address posted on their website. You can read it here. I will link the audio again below. Dr. Thomas Schreiner – Living Like Jesus is the Only Way – ETS 2011 [audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/28607162-bhpublishinggroup-dr-tom-schriner-ets2011.mp3]
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Review of BibleWorks 9 – Searching
A while back, I began a review of BibleWorks 9, one of the premier Bible software packages available for PC’s. Today, I continue that review with a focus on searching in BibleWorks 9. The search engine in BibleWorks 9 is powerful and fast. All of the texts (English, Greek, Hebrew, German) are searchable in BibleWorks 9. In the Greek and Hebrew texts, however, BW9 allows users not only to search for individual words but also morphologically complex constructions. So for example, let’s say I’m reading Romans 12:1 in BibleWorks and want to do a simple search of every use of the Greek word metamorpho? (“transform”). All I have to do…
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Tom Schreiner’s Word to Christian Scholars at ETS
I attended the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society a couple of weeks ago, and the highlight of the week for me was Tom Schreiner’s devotional at the B&H breakfast. Tom is the new chair of the HSCB translation oversight committee, and his remarks at the breakfast were prophetic for the scholarly set. He called on scholars to do their work as if Jesus is the only way. He called on us not to trim our sails to accommodate the prevailing winds of scholarship but to set our course for faithfulness to Christ no matter what the cost. He called on us to abandon the desire to win the…
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One More Reason To Believe Paul Was Married
A few months ago I made the argument from 1 Corinthians 7:8 that the apostle Paul was not a lifelong bachelor but a widower. I received a good deal of feedback on that post–some of it disagreeing with my reading of the text. About a month after that post, Bill Mounce expressed his misgivings about the idea that Paul was a widower. Still, I haven’t seen anything yet that would persuade me to read this text differently, and I think the case that I originally made still stands. (If you haven’t done so, I encourage you to read what I wrote in the original post before reading any further.)
