Tony Reinke at Miscellanies (formerly Shepherd’s Scrapbook) has a great post about something that many of us love to do, evaluate books.  The majority of the post references Virginia Woolf’s How Should One Read A Book?.  If you regularly evaluate books, it’s a good reminder to do your diligence in thinking things through and taking [...]

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A two-part interview with Leen Ritmeyer just went up at Justin Taylor’s blog:  Between Two Worlds. Part 1 – Between Two Worlds: What Did Calvary Look Like? An Interview with Leen Ritmeyer (Part 1) Part 2 – Between Two Worlds: What Did Jesus’ Tomb Look Like? An Interview with Leen Ritmeyer (Part 2) You can [...]

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Many thanks to the kind folks at Zondervan for furnishing me with a review copy of A Reader’s Greek New Testament, 2nd Edition.  The notable changes to the 2nd edition are as follows: New Greek font – Easier to read Footnoted definitions of all Greek words occurring 30 times or less Mini-lexicon of all words [...]

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There have been a lot of posts over the last couple of days talking about the Codex Sinaiticus Project web page going live on July 24.  It’s very exciting to see a large-scale collaborative effort underway to digitize this important manuscript and make it accessible to a wider global audience.  The history behind Codex Sinaiticus [...]

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The only way in which it is possible to “feed on Christ” is through the Word of God.  Simply to study the Bible from an intellectual standpoint in order to know it, is not to feed on Him and, moreover, such study is not sufficient. In the Shadow of Grace:  The Life and Meditations of [...]

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In a sermon from his recently completed sermon series on doctrine, Mark Driscoll talks about some of the pitfalls in the popular book The Shack.

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John Piper preached a great sermon this past weekend on baptism as part of his current sermon series on baptism and church membership.  As somebody who grew up in the Lutheran church and was baptized first as an infant and later as an adult, this is a topic I’ve spent some time reflecting on.  Piper [...]

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I have a sneaking suspicion that Nick Norelli may be the most beloved man in Biblioblogging.  As evidenced by these posts here: Well I’ll Be Blessed (or Shock and Delight) They Have Arrived! The Trinity a la T & T Clark The books just keep on coming.  I’m willing to bet he knows the UPS [...]

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Many Christians today lack grounding in the riches of church history. We may find ourselves “rootless and drifting in a barren secular and ecclesiastical landscape.” The church fathers offer us context and tradition that will help establish the roots we need. They do so by taking us deeper into the rich resources of Scripture, helping [...]

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