I have been asked to give a bit of an update on our family post-move. I am sorry that I have not done so already. Part of my reluctance has been related to that old admonition that if you don’t have anything good to say…. Well, there are plenty of good things to say, but… Read More »
Though some have suggested that 1–2 Kings preserves a record of an angry and unforgiving God, the opposite is true. As Peter Leithart says so well, “A careful reading of 1–2 Kings reveals a God who is always giving more than people ask, imagine, or deserve (…), a God of infinite, uncanny, unnerving patience” (1… Read More »
“There is little room for mysticism in biblical religion; we do not know God by having some sort of inexplicable ethereal communion with him, in which our feelings are used as the evidence for our closeness to him. We know him by learning his ways (i.e., his revealed standards, revealed methods, and revealed benefits)—in other… Read More »
Too often debates about faith between Christians and non-Christians don’t recognize the root of the issue. J. I. Packer has made the important observation that the real issue in the New Testament is the incarnation; if you accept that, everything else makes sense. Over on Pyromaniacs, Dan Phillips argues that the most offensive verse in… Read More »
You ‘ll Never Learn!: Students can’t resist multitasking, and it’s impairing their memory – I’m going to require reading of this article for all of my students. It turns out that the busiest freeway in the US is the one that runs between LAX and our new home. Bloomberg Refused Second Slice of Pizza at… Read More »
I would like to be more regular in posting, but in the meantime, here are a few photos from the last few months. This was my view during the defense of my dissertation. These gentlemen asked me questions about the Aramean oppression for two hours. These are some of my favorite people in the world,… Read More »
I expect to have more tests in life, but my very last examination as a student is tomorrow (Wed.) morning when I am scheduled for my dissertation defense. From 8:30-10:30 am, I will be locked in a room with four professors who will ask me difficult questions about my 250-page dissertation on the reign of… Read More »
There really is no beginning to this story, so it may be best to simply observe that God’s faithfulness has been readily evident throughout our lives and particularly at every transition. We weren’t sure how he would work this time, but a past seminary professor of mine urged me to “pray big” in this home… Read More »
The Word of God says that he who finds a wife finds a good thing (Prov 18:22). Yet it also is aware that it would be better to live in the wilderness than to live with some women (Prov 21:19). Today marks the day, according to a calculation in an Excel spreadsheet, when I’ve spent… Read More »
There’s some very impressive footage of a glacier breaking apart here. If you turn the volume down from the 35-second to 45-second mark, you ‘ll miss the swear word. (From this movie.) What is love? Here’s a 3-minute answer. I just read the Ten Commandments of iPad Preaching. But I don’t get it—why not just… Read More »