I just received Crossway’s 2012 Academic & Pastoral Resources catalog yesterday, and there are two items in here that I am really excited about. They are both Bibles, and I think they will be tools that will encourage pastors and teachers to read their Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament. The first is a Hebrew-English Old Testament that displays the ESV Old Testament alongside the Hebrew text. I am most enthusiastic about this one because the diglot options for the Hebrew Old Testament are fairly limited. Now, Crossway has given us the entire BHS text laid out next to one of the best translations in English. The release date…
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Moo, Grudem, and Clendenen Talk about Bible Translation
Wayne Grudem, Doug Moo, and Ray Clendenen recently participated in a symposium on Bible translation at Liberty University. Grudem represented the ESV, Moo the NIV, and Clendenen the HCSB. These men have different opinions about translation philosophy in general and about each others’ translations in particular. You can view the video of these presentations here. The audio is available below.
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Peter Williams on the Gospels as Eyewitness Accounts
Peter Williams is the warden at Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. He is also one of the bright lights of evangelical scholarship. Last March, he gave a fascinating lecture at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, Texas titled “New Evidences the Gospels were Based on Eyewitness Accounts.” John Piper has called this presentation “the most remarkable (video) lecture on the reliability of the Gospels I’ve ever heard.” I would agree with Piper. I found this lecture to be absolutely riveting. The main lecture is above, and a short Q&A with Dr. Williams is below.
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Michelle Bachmann Shares Testimony in Iowa Church
Michele Bachmann shared her Christian testimony at a church in Osceola, Iowa on Sunday morning. Michael Gerson reports that her tone sounded “sincere and nonpolitical.” Here is an excerpt from The Iowa Independent‘s coverage of her remarks: “Even though I was doing nothing wrong — I wasn’t drinking, smoking or chasing boys — I still had a wicked heart,” Bachmann says of her 1972 teenage self before she and a group of three friends entered an abandoned and unlocked Minnesota church and stood before the alter confessing their sins. “We got up. I walked home to our little apartment, and I bowed before my bed. I said to God, ‘All…
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Come Visit Boyce College’s Preview Conference
It is Fall, and high school seniors (and juniors) all over the country are already beginning to get serious about what college they want to attend after graduation. There are a lot of choices, and sometimes making a decision can be bewildering. I want you to know, however, that there is one place that I give my unqualified endorsement to: Boyce College. Boyce College offers a solid undergraduate course of study that is steeped in the Christian worldview. I think every Christian student ought to consider the benefits of a Christian education. And for those who decide to go that route, Boyce College ought to be at the top of…
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Carl Trueman on the KJV
2011 is the 400th anniversary of the publication of what is arguably the greatest piece of English literature ever written—the King James Bible. The story of its genesis and legacy is a fascinating one. Last month, we noted a series of lectures at Union University on the topic. This week, Justin Taylor points us to another lecture—this one by Carl Trueman at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. The lecture is entitled “Throwing the Book at his Enemies: James I and his Bible.” You can download it here or listen below. [audio:http://media2.wts.edu/media/audio/trueman10-18-11-copyright.mp3]
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Can You Give an Answer When Called a Bigot?
Last night I happened upon this interview between Piers Morgan and Rick Santorum from last August. In it, Morgan accuses Santorum of being a bigot for supporting policies that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Piers Morgan criticized Santorum for his Roman Catholic beliefs, and I think Santorum parried the questions really well.
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Would Augustine Invite Muhammad to Speak at His Conference?
Thabiti Anyabwile has written a hard-hitting piece titled, “Collateral Damage in the Invitation of T.D. Jakes to the Elephant Room.” You need to read the whole thing, but here’s a little taste: It’s difficult to see larger-than-life heretics given a platform in circles of pastors and leaders we respect and we regard as co-laborers in defense and confirmation of the truth…
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Some Thoughts on The Elephant Room Flap
Tim Challies has weighed-in on The Elephant Room flap. He writes: As I think about round 2 of the Elephant Room, here is what I want to know: Will T.D. Jakes be challenged very specifically on what he believes about the Trinity? Will this be the elephant in the room when he sits there with MacDonald and whoever else? Will these men be willing to ask him very difficult, very nuanced, very penetrating questions? And if he finally says, “Yes, I am a modalist” will they then be willing to tell him, “You are a heretic; you are not a Christian”? If he proves himself to be a modalist, will…
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What is a gay Christian?
Yesterday, the Baptist Press ran a slightly revised version of an essay I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the term “gay Christian.” Since then, comments have been appearing under that older post. I’m going to repost the Baptist Press article here so that we can open a new thread of comments. The article is below, and the comments are below that. Thanks for reading!