If you’re into premillennial headline eschatology, this one might be for you. Former blogger Mitch Guthrie recently passed along a recent GodTube.com video (~30 minutes) of a rather enthusiastic presentation by Steve Hadley of Harvest Family Fellowship Reno Nevada regarding the extremely rare alignment of solar and lunar eclipses (”blood moons”) with the major Jewish [...]
Gary Zimmerli at A Friend of Christ has written a very thoughtful “review” of his interactions with the new NLT Study Bible. Gary’s conversational writing is a joy to read and he’s outdone himself with the task at hand.
I was very curious to hear Gary’s thoughts on both the study Bible and the NLT text [...]
Some verses for all of us to keep in mind when discussing the differences among Bible translations (or any other divisive topic):
“But if you are harbouring bitter jealousy and the spirit of rivalry in your hearts, stop making false claims in defiance of the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes from above; it [...]
Crossway has published an excerpt from Ezekiel from the upcoming ESV Study Bible, including notes from the opening section that I previously looked at for the NLT Study Bible.
Be sure to check out the PDF link to read the introductory material from the ESV - as with all of these new study Bibles, there is [...]
Recently I’ve been moving away from reading theological blogs. It’s not that I find theological nuances uninteresting, but too often the discussions are just words to me and I don’t see evidence of them bearing fruit in my daily walk. So rather than continue in that personal wilderness, I’ve been trying to take a more [...]
Jeff at Scripture Zealot has a good post up today on using the word “propitiation” as a shibboleth of sorts in selecting a Bible translation. He likes what he reads in the NLT for Romans 3:25 –
For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us.
– but [...]
Coming up on two weeks ago, a package from Tyndale arrived just as we were finishing up packing for a weekend away with friends in northern Minnesota. Needless to say, my planned reading was left on the shelf (sorry Greg Boyd!) and the new NLT Study Bible (NLTSB) went with me. I had planned to [...]
What do Helen Spurrell, Annie Cressman, Helen Barrett Montgomery, Jane Aitken and Julia Evelina Smith have in common with Frances Siewert? Yes, they’re all women. But more importantly, they all translated or produced portions of or all of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek sources. Suzanne McCarthy has been blogging a fascinating series on women [...]
We all know that Jesus claimed to be the Bread of Life and that all who eat will be filled. One of the ways that we spiritually eat is by reading the Bible, which is available to the English-speaking part of the world in a confounding number of translations. But have you ever stopped to [...]
I had a few minutes to stop by our local Christian bookstore and noticed that they’d completely rearranged the Bible section. Frankly, I was very much taken aback by the new layout (in a good way):
No surprise, the biggest layout was taken by the NIV, with 4 display units along the back wall, which is [...]
