Wednesday, December 19, 2007
You can read a new interview with N.T. Wright here: Heavy Theological Dude Mistakenly Talks to Us 12/17/2007 The Wittenburg Door Interview: N.T. “Tom” Wright
DOOR: So, how do we balance the experience of the church with the authority of scripture?
WRIGHT: Um, this is starting to sound like an oral exam.
DOOR: Sorry, but you [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Based on the excellent feedback from our first Bible translation poll, I wanted to offer everyone some more choices. Many mentioned that they own dozens of different Bible translations – some over 100!If I’ve left out your one your top three, leave a comment and I can add it.
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More about Bible translations
SBTS Alumni Steve [...]
Monday, December 17, 2007
No, it’s not Friday. In case you hadn’t heard, the Executive Board of the Missouri Baptist Convention has taken the controversial decision to withdraw already promised and budgeted funding to church plants affiliated with Acts 29.
At issue? As far as this redactor can tell, it is the secondary issue of Total Abstinence from [...]
Monday, December 17, 2007
I just saw the final outcome of the Bible translation poll. 54% of Said at Southern readers indicated the ESV was their #1 choice as a Bible translation. Good for Crossway. The Piper endorsement was big news around campus a few years back and it seems to have made ESV the trendy translation in these [...]
Friday, December 14, 2007
While engaging in Blog Higher Criticism, there are some times when I come across bits o’ blogging that do not fit neatly into my preconceived themes. If I were a Liberal, I could follow their scholarly lead and simply ignore those texts that do not fit into my preconceived ideas. Instead, my conservative [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2007
At this point I’m more interested in the horse race than the sermons. Go vote for Brister’s question. The thing ends tomorrow.
Maybe then we can do a podcast with Dr. Nettles and ask him the question, if we want a wise answer.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
You can read the original post for more details, but here is the basic idea. Read the whole Bible before January 31, 2008.
This post is an forum for anyone participating to share their progress.
To get started, I built this Bible Reading Chart. It’s nothing fancy, but I wanted a way to keep track of my [...]