A couple of years ago, I edited a commentary on Exodus. I had never taken the time to study the book that deeply before, and I enjoyed the experience. So when I heard that there was a new volume coming out in the Kregel Exegetical Library series on Exodus, I decided to pick it up. […]
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Logos 6 Has Launched!
If you read this blog regularly (or know me personally), you know that I work at Faithlife, the makers of Logos Bible Software. Today, we announced the latest version of that software: Logos 6! The list of cool new features is too long for a single blog post, and it has already been laid out very […]
The relationship between scientific accounts of origins and the account found in Genesis is a controversial issue, and has been at least since the Scopes Monkey Trial. Every now and then it spills into the news here in the United States, when people who are firmly entrenched on either side come in conflict with one […]
First there was the hermeneutical circle. Then there was the hermeneutical spiral. Now, in Invitation to Biblical Interpretation: Exploring the Hermeneutical Triad of History, Literature and Theology, Andreas J. Kostenberger and Richard D. Patterson give us the hermeneutical triad. The hermeneutical triad, as the subtitle indicates, consists of history, literature and theology. History and literature […]
On Sunday, I preached a sermon at my church. It was the first Sunday of Advent, and I decided to preach on Isaiah 64:1-9, the lectionary text for the day. You can find the audio of the sermon here.
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Iain Provan in Australia
One of my favorite professors during my time at Regent College was Iain Provan. I learned a great deal from him, not just about the Old Testament, but also about how to read and think about the Bible in general. He gave a series of lectures in Australia in July, and Gospel Conversations was kind […]
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How Do You Evaluate a Bible Translation?
I got the most recent issue of Christianity Today a few days ago, and found that they had weighed in on the Southern Baptist Convention’s recent resolution against the updated NIV. This is the best line of CT’s response: The only criterion for a good translation is this: Does it accurately convey what the authors […]
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How I Spend My Day
I’ve been working at Logos Bible Software since April, and ever since then people have been asking me, “What do you do there?” I do my best to explain, but I’m not always sure that my explanation makes sense. For those of you to whom I’ve explained what I do but you didn’t quite understand, […]
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I’m in the Bible
… sort of. When I went to Ephesus a couple of years ago with Mary and my dad, I took a picture of a cross-shaped baptistry in the Basilica of St. John and later posted it on my blog. Then, Steve Bond from LifeWay asked me if I would be willing to let them use […]
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, I wrote this post for the Logos blog last week. And it was successful: the book I was trying to get into production received enough orders over the weekend to put it over the top.
