October 2006

ESV Reverse Interlinear

October 25, 2006

I just got a copy of the new ESV Reverse Interlinear New Testament from Crossway. An traditional interlinear New Testament is essentially the Greek text with corresponding English words below. The reverse interlinear, displays an English translation as theprimary text and then weaves the correspondng Greek words between the English lines. So the word order [...]

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Attractive Preaching

October 24, 2006

Many, if not most, of my readers are in seminary or ministry so I thought I would share a few quotes on preaching – again. This morning I was reading, “Preaching for the Poor,” an amazing sermon by Charles Spurgeon. Later in the week I want to get to his thoughts on preaching the Gospel [...]

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Preaching Law and Grace

October 21, 2006

This morning as I sat in my old brown chair, listening to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue I read Spurgeon on Psalm 2:12. After all of my sermon prep is done I like to read a sermon by someone else for further reflection, and tomorrow I am preaching the second Psalm. In his introductory remarks [...]

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Distractions in Worship

October 19, 2006

This morning I read a sermon by Thomas Watson, “How May We Cure Distractions in Holy Duties?” You gotta love God’s providence. Just last Sunday I confessed to the church that I had come to worship very distracted. I certainly left in a better frame than I came, but I have been thinking about this [...]

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95 on 1

October 18, 2006

Jeff is a friend from church who is currently teaching our Sunday morning class on the Protestant Reformation. He is also the guy schooling me in the game of chess. Since we’re talking about it, I beat him in our last three games. *ahem* Anyway, he had mentioned passing out copies of the Luther’s 95 [...]

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Nota Bene

October 18, 2006

Dr. Van Neste points out the John Newton Project. As I posted a year ago, Newton is worth everyone’s time and this should make it easy for all to have access. I am pumped about this, but hope they’ll have a better looking/functioning site by the time his works are all up.

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Missional Code Press

October 11, 2006

Check out this BP article on Breaking the Missional Code; somehow I wound up being quoted.

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