Monthly Archives: October 2008
First part of 2 Peter 1 Translated!
Woohoo! After a whole ton of work, I’ve finally translated the first part of 2 Peter 1! Actually, I didn’t do the real translating-into-English work — I’m standing on the shoulders of Bauckham, Hiebert and JND Kelly (#1, #3 & … Continue reading
The Bible IS written to you!
As I read through an excellent chapter on God’s Discipline in Holiness by Grace, I realized I made a critical error in my talk on Interpreting Scripture. I swung too hard against the “God wrote the Bible to me” mentality … Continue reading
You truly love each other
You truly love each other and so you might have been truly happy not one couple in a century has that chance no matter what the storybooks say — Prince Humperdink, The Princess Bride The Princess Bride has masterful storytelling … Continue reading
Interpreting Scripture
Here is the PDF for Interpreting Scripture, the talk I gave Monday. If anything seems incoherent, I apologize: I lost all my work at 10:30am on Monday… and finally had it all re-written by 6pm. I was coming down with … Continue reading
Compensating for “what’s out there”
In our church’s book study of Holiness by Grace, one of the men (Lauren Clarke) warned strongly against seeing people in other churches take advantage of God’s grace and, as a natural reaction, compensate too far in the direction of … Continue reading
The Boring Gospel retracted
I’ve just retracted my last blog post, “The Boring Gospel” — not because I found that I was in error, but rather because I realized it simply was not a blog post. It is far too long. So I’m reworking … Continue reading
