Friday, October 30, 2009

Winter Retreat - God, Sex, and Purity

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Don't let John Wesley see me!

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The meaning of a verb in Greek.

One of the greatest things I’ve learned today in my Greek class is the difference between semantics and pragmatics when it comes to Greek linguistic study. What I mean is this. The lexical, grammatical (=unchanging, uncancelable) form of the verb is the semantic category. It cannot change. This grammatical...

Monday, October 19, 2009

Here in cold PA

I made it safe to Baptist Bible Seminary last night after a long day of acquainting with the Newark airport en route to Scranton. I am here for the week for my doctoral seminars. I’m taking two courses: advanced theological method and New Testament Greek studies. Today was my first day of PhD classes. But before my classes started, I had a 3 hour orientation/colloquy with the dean of BBS and the director...

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Louis Berkhof--a new favorite theologian and hero

In response to a question recently asked of me: who is your favorite theologian and why, I responded as follows: Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";...

Saturday, October 3, 2009

some of geoff’s thoughts this week.

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