A good day in the "blog-o-sphere"

Here are three excellent blogs I read today that I will post for you to check out. I'm not gonna even try to blog today after reading these three excellent blogs.First, Chuck Lawless, of Southern Seminary, has a fabulous post today imagining if he were Satan and how he would attack Christians today....

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The character of an on-fire Christian

Today I had a great opportunity -- to preach at church. I found great joy in studying Acts 1 all week and unveiling some of its truth to God's people this morning.As I studied I was confronted with the glories of Christ, the ascension of Christ and the guarantee of his return, the absolute necessity...

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Fighting with spouse can be good for your health

According to Diane Mapes with CNN.com this is so. She notes in her lengthy article:For many couples, spats are a necessary evil, something to endure or avoid(for the sake of the kids!). But new research at the University of Michiganshows that hashing out marital disagreements is actually good for your...

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Prayer, Preaching, and Parsonage

If you are a visitor to this blog and are wondering where I've been the last few days, I want to inform you that Elizabeth and I are moving down to the Valley closer to church and seminary to our church parsonage.You can pray:That the move goes smoothly.That we continue to cultivate solid and deep friendships with people in our church. That I continue to keep up with all the schoolwork requirements...

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Good Friday Article

This is a helpful article on the physical pain and suffering of our Lord just hours before He was crucified. It is sobering and, at times, hard to read - but very helpful. Oftentimes the word "crucifixion" can become rote and, even, meaningless because we are so accustomed and familiar with the term. If that is the case with you, then read this article here on crucifixion from a medical standpoint.Acts...

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Niagara Falls with a babe

I've been to cold places before, but this was a little too cold for my liking. I guess since I've been in LA my blood has really, I mean really thinned out! In fact, you can see just how cold it was by the fact that the river at the bottom of the falls was absolutely frozen solid. Regardless, we had...

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Singing Psalm 74

Yesterday in my Psalms class at seminary we sung through Psalm 74. Isaac Watts has some great lyrics (17 stanzas!) on this psalm (some are from the text and others are more, shall we say, interpretive).At any rate, we sang this song to the familiar tune of "O God Our Help In Ages Past:"1 Will God for ever cast us off?His wrath for ever smokeAgainst the people of' his love,His little chosen flock?2...

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Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD

Luke 19:37-40 37 And as He was now approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen, 38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord; Peace in heaven and...

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Good Morning Dallas - NT Manuscript Preservation

Dan Wallace, of Dallas Theological Seminary, was featured on the Dallas News today. Here is a clip of what he said (you can also read the whole thing here):Armed with high-tech cameras and computers, Daniel B. Wallace travels around theworld to photograph New Testament manuscripts that are many centuries...

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Calvin on the imputation of Christ's righteousness to believers

I am doing research for a paper proving exegetically that the righteousness of Christ is imputed (reckoned or credited) to believers at the moment of salvation. Here are some quotes from the great John Calvin that are pertinent to this topic (the numbers at the end correspond to the reference in his...

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Helpful Tips For Writing NT Research Papers

I found this to be helpful and wanted to share it with you. It's Piper's "Guidelines for writing NT Research papers."Not only is this pertinent to academic papers but also to sermon preparation. Even those in full-time ministry who don't "write a 25-page" research paper, when you prepare for sermons...

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