: “It’s short, unimportant and uninteresting.” That will show him! (
Combined Feed and Summaries
I’ve given up the enterprise of reading this book through from cover to cover, so these notes are based on using it as reference while I’m reading 2 Corinthians itself.
The fact is that I found the book impossible to read straight through. As I mentioned previously in using it as a comparison to Matera’s commentary 
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Peter Kirk linked to my post on “an eye for an eye” in responding to David Ker’s post What to do with the vengeance in the Old Testament? Skip it!
As a result I’ve been able to follow a rather substantial number of posts discussing this issue. One of these comes from John Hobbins, who tells us that one can’t …
I previously reviewed e-Sword and found it a pleasant surprise in the free Bible software category. Note that my review was written in 2006, within a few days of my starting this blog, and a great deal has happened since then. Hopefully I will manage to write an updated review soon.
But there is more exciting news. I got an e-mail …
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An Eye for an Eye Church Sign
At first glance, this is a good sign for a Christian. After all, Jesus replaces “an eye for an eye” with “Do not resist the one who is evil” (Matthew 5:38-39).
But I think it illustrates the way we fail to understand certain phrases as they were intended.
“An eye for an …
As I’ve noted before, I’m now reading Calvin J. Roetzel, 2 Corinthians 
I have really enjoyed studying 2 Corinthians with this commentary. Since I’ve used a number of volumes from the New Testament Library before, the easiest evaluation of this commentary I can give is that it meets and in some cases exceeds the expectations I have of volumes in the New Testament Library series. If you have used and liked other volumes …
I’ve just completed reading Frank J. Matera’s II Corinthians: A Commentary
There are many cases in which critical theories about authorship strike me as rather well-taken. First …
Henry Neufeld and Geoffrey Lentz at Lectionary at Lunch, First UMC Pensacola, hold new copies of Learning and Living Scripture
I was reminded of this by two events during the last week. First, the arrival of copies of my new book with co-author Rev. Geoffrey Lentz. One of the things we emphasize in that book is hearing what the …
christian carnival ii
Welcome to the March 3, 2010 edition of the Christian Carnival, CCCXVII (317 for the Roman numeral challenged). I would like to remind everyone that the Christian Carnival is weekly, and that posts must be dated within the previous week. Where a new participant submitted an older post I have checked, and …
I’ll get the Christian Carnival posted this evening. It might be late afternoon, but I have a couple of meetings that will prevent posting it earlier. Thanks for your patience!
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I despised the latest Star Trek movie, but if they had used this ending I might have changed my mind.
(HT: Exploring Our Matrix)
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A short story with an interesting ending. Yes, it’s relevant both to science fiction and Christianity (or other forms of spirituality).
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Some of you may justifiably ask just what some guy moving on through middle age is doing writing a review of a book whose title starts For Girls Only! And that was indeed my reaction when I first saw the book in an e-mail from Tyndale House. Indeed, I had just about deleted the e-mail before I thought, “You know, this …
Thanks to Jeremy for all the hard work in producing the Biblioblog Top 50 this month. Even though I lost ground in my 30 day Alexa ranking, it was still good enough for #9.
By the way Joel, writing a script is also work. Few seconds? It is to laugh!
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… In the Tanakh, faith does not mean believing in spite of the evidence. It means trusting profoundly in a person, in this case the personal God who has reiterated His promise.
(from The Jewish Study Bible: featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation
, page 35.)
I think that’s an excellent statement of what faith is and is not, and …
I believe that as Christians, we need to think a great deal more about how we understand scripture. So I welcome this series by Josh Mann at for the Sake of Truth. I’m going to follow it, and possibly respond when it is complete.
The first part deals with the definition of hermeneutics and the second with defining existentialism. We’re eating …
Christian Carnival CCCXVI has been posted at Crossroads. It’s an interesting one, as always, with lots of good posts to review. I never find time to read all the ones I intend to read.
But “the king is dead, long live the king!” or let’s be a little less morbid, the carnival is posted, and it’s time to start thinking about …
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Clayboy asks whether “the Bible alone” is an oxymoron. Now I sympathize with the question, because I have been dealing in another forum (the issue arises in the last 100 messages or so) with someone who seems to think that a text can have meaning with no context at all, or more precisely that the obvious meaning of English words …
A few weeks ago I compared two commentaries on Leviticus. One of these was Samuel E. Balentine’s volume in the Interpretation commentary series. In that review I noted that I was only half-way through my read of Balentine, but thought I could still make some valid comments.
I have now finished my read, and I still stand by what I wrote …
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The Old Testament Lectionary passage for the first Sunday in Lent, cycle C is Deuteronomy 26:1-11. It’s kind of an odd text for this season. You might almost use it as a text for Fat Tuesday.
I’m going to comment more on the lectionary texts this week, if for no other reason than because I’ve been asked to teach the weekly …
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It’s been some time since I posted on the Mosaic Bible in connection with lectionary reading, but we’re entering an excellent season for using these tools together. (For what it’s worth, I use T he Text this Week for the lectionary passages.)
While the passages don’t match for the first week of Lent, the Mosaic Bible reading does include Psalm 51 …
… is the title of my latest, and forthcoming, book, with co-author Geoffrey Lentz. Geoffrey is associate pastor of First United Methodist Church in Pensacola, FL and has become a regular collaborator on the Participatory Study Series, whence comes the name of this blog. He also has an Energion Publications author page.
Learning and Living Scripture is the basic guide …
Clayboy has an excellent post on preachers who say “What the Greek really means…” or words to that effect. I was drawn to this one because of my own experience.
My wife tells me that when we first got married she quickly got used to watching me during sermons. I need to tell you that my wife is extraordinarily observant …
… you think that completely throwing all sense of reality to the wind makes an action scene “best.” Yeah, I know. Action scenes aren’t generally all that realistic, but this one is special. Fun to watch too!
HT: Zeray Gazette
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I think Mark at Pseudo-Polymath is absolutely correct in his excellent post Of Scripture and Tradition.
When I first decided that inerrancy didn’t work, it was because I found errors as they would be defined by the people that first taught me to regard the Bible as inerrant. At the same time I remained convinced of Biblical inspiration. Over time this …
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I received a link to the following video in a tweet from @TheActiveWord. It seems so closely related to my last post that I’d include it here:
There are several things I agree with here. First, I do believe that the Bible has the sovereignty of God and the responsibility (of which some sort of free will seems to be …
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There’s one use of the phrase “just your interpretation” that implies that no interpretation is better than any other. This is often used by people who have no idea how a particular text should be interpreted, but nonetheless feel like rejecting your interpretation in particular. Either they think all interpretations are equal–a common idea these days–or they are just tool lazy …
Jeremy at Free Old Testament Audio has created an Biblioblogger Amazon.com aStore and is creating lists of books by various bibliobloggers, including yours truly. I encourage you to head over and check it out and consider buying through his links if you plan on buying any of those books. Jeremy has been doing some nice things to the top 50 list. …
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I previously answered this question for myself here, but there’s a good and gracious answer today from Brian Fulthorp.
I would repeatedly emphasize that there are many advantages to knowing Biblical languages. There are some areas and methods of study that really are closed to you if you don’t know the languages. Having said that, we have such wonderful tools for …
Eddie Arthur has a fascinating post on language development and mission, particularly relating this question to the language development work of Wycliffe Bible Translators.
I was particularly struck by this paragraph:
An alternative way to view mission is to start with the character and activity of God as revealed across the whole of the Scriptural narrative. The whole story of Scripture …
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*“I don’t understand how you can believe in a loving God in the face of what we’re seeing on the news right now,” said Bob Norman, bringing the small talk to a halt. In that informal way they had, the God-Talk Club was now in session!
“It is difficult, isn’t it?” said Jerry to the group as a whole. Bob …
While none of the Mosaic Bible texts [Holy Bible: Mosaic NLT (Meditations) 
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