Lee Irons has put together a plan for reading through the Greek New Testament every year (HT: Jim Hamilton). He has some great suggestions, and I think you should take a look at them if you are in a position to take up this challenge. “Annual Greek New Testament Program” – by Lee Irons “Read-Greek Calendar 2008” – by Lee Irons On a related note, here are some other online resources that might be useful to all you Greek scholars out there. Greek New Testament Website – zhubert.com – Excellent website with a browsable, Web-based interface to the Greek New Testament. Passing the mouse over any word brings up an…
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Missing post?
Some of you may have noticed that one of my posts has been deleted. The post in question was a video from another website, and a reader just pointed out to me some distasteful comments scrolling at the bottom of the video that I had not noticed when I posted it here. I watched the video more than once before posting it, and so did my wife. But neither of us caught the offensive remarks. In any case, that’s why the post is gone. I apologize and ask your pardon for not being more careful. Thanks, Mark Tucker, for helping a brother out! Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so…
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What is a Fundamentalist?
Dr. John Piper has twenty reasons why he will not take “potshots” at fundamentalists. You should read these, and note especially the final reason that he gives for not criticizing the fundy’s: “20. Everybody to my left thinks I am one. And there are a lot of people to my left.”
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NY Times Profiles “Non-political†Southern Baptists
Sunday’s New York Times had a story on young evangelicals who are trending away from the priorities of the religious right. One of the churches featured in the story is a Southern Baptist congregation in St. Louis, Missouri called The Journey.
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Senator Obama Resigns His Church
From the NY Times politics blog: “Senator Barack Obama is ending his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he has belonged to for about two decades and one that had become a lightening rod in his Democratic presidential bid… “This week, Mr. Obama found himself responding once again to a sermon delivered from the pulpit of Trinity, when a Catholic priest and a longtime friend of Mr. Obama was captured on video last Sunday mocking Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. “Mr. Obama, as he prepares for a general election campaign against Senator John McCain, was seeking to put the controversy over his church behind him. It…
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Dockery at the Southern Baptist Convention
This post is a follow-up to my previous one about Dr. David Dockery, author of Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal and president of Union University. He will be making some appearances at the Southern Baptist Convention in a couple of weeks. He’s doing a book-signing, and he’s addressing the messengers in a plenary session. If you plan to attend the convention in Indianapolis, you’ll want to make your way to both of these. Monday, June 9 (4-6pm) – Book-Signing (I guess this will be at the Broadman & Holman display) Tuesday, June 10 (3:30pm) – Plenary address to the convention on themes related to Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal While…
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David Dockery’s Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal
I have been reading and very much enjoying David Dockery’s new book Southern Baptist Consensus and Renewal: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Proposal. Dockery is a lifelong Southern Baptist who has a keen eye for the challenges that face the denomination. This is not a full review of the book, but I have read enough of it to recommend it to you (especially if you are a Southern Baptist). My aim in this post is simply to highlight a passage that is particularly insightful. Dockery writes:
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President Bush’s Biggest Blunder?
Douglas Feith was under secretary of defense for policy from July 2001 until August 2005. He was in the thick of things before and during the war in Iraq. In Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, he explains how the President “nearly cost the U.S. the war.” In my view, Feith’s piece is the best analysis of the case for war that I have read all year. He writes:
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Where does Arminianism come from?
“Arminianism trumps biblical sentences with metaphysics.” –John Piper, “How A Roman Catholic Anti-Calvinist Can Serve Today’s Poet-Calvinists” (DesiringGod.org)
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Remember the Gospel of Judas?
Do you remember when the National Geographic Society unveiled the Gospel of Judas a couple of years ago? The newly discovered document supposedly contained a positive portrayal of Judas Iscariot, the man whom the canonical Gospels say betrayed Jesus. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story about the aftermath of National Geographic’s unveiling, and it is not a pretty picture.