We thank you for your prayers and kind notes. When I wrote earlier today, there was much that we didn’t know and all that goes along with that. Upon his arrival at Medical City Children’s Hospital in Dallas, we got a better feel for how things look and the approach they’ll take. Overall, we are… Read More »
We have just learned that Mark’s appendix has burst (1:30 p.m. Dallas time). He’s being transferred from the local ER to a major Dallas hospital by ambulance for surgery. He has been sick and in pain for a few days but the symptoms matched something “that’s been going around” and so we didn’t take him… Read More »
I could not care less about the Washington Nationals, but reading Charles Krauthammer is always enjoyable. Is it better to buy or rent a house? This slick NY Times calculator will help you to answer that question. This is crazy. A Croatian girl goes into a coma and when she wakes up she can’t speak… Read More »
I’m working on Psalms now, and as usual, I’m not going to be able to comment here on most of it given my weariness and my continued development of thought. But a brief thought tonight. The book of Psalms advances the narrative of the Old Testament. It’s not “off on the side,” sort of a… Read More »
From John Piper’s sermon on Sunday: Millions of nominal Christians have never experienced a fundamental alteration of that foundation of happiness. Instead they have absorbed the notion that becoming Christian means turning to Jesus get what you always wanted before you were born again. So, if you wanted wealth, you stop depending on yourself for… Read More »
I have always thought of Israel’s exile as being a 70-year thing. I struggled to figure out how to count those 70 years (is it 605 to 536 or 586 to 516?), but the exile ended when the Israelites came back from Babylon and rebuilt their temple. I’ve changed my mind in the last few… Read More »
This afternoon I received in the mail the page proofs for a 2011 calendar featuring my photos. My pictures have been used in half a dozen calendars over the years, but this calendar is spectacular. It’s large (as calendars go), has a large photo as well as a smaller inset photo, and covers… Read More »
I did not write this sentence: Much of the prophecy that comes after the book of Isaiah hinges on the ideas in Isaiah 52 and 53. I now see this passage “written” on almost every page of books like Daniel, Ezekiel and throughout the New Testament stories of Jesus. I truly believe that seeing Isaiah… Read More »
If you ‘re planning to do much work in the Gospels, you might want to take a look at this commentary compiled from the Church Fathers by Thomas Aquinas. Until Friday, this 8-volume work is available for Logos for only $16. On Sunday they blew up the old Dallas Cowboys stadium and my friend Eric… Read More »
It struck me recently that I’ve spent a lot of my life in the 8th century BC. It was quite the 100 years. Near the beginning of the century, Jeroboam II became ruler of the Northern Kingdom and he reigned for 41 years (793-753). My earliest intensive acquaintance with the 8th century was courtesy of… Read More »