I recently posted that our family had put our home up for sale, so I’ll praise God by sharing an update:
Eight days after putting our home on the market, someone put an offer on our home, and we soon agreed to terms. As of today the home is officially under contract (with a closing scheduled in May to fit our timetable).
We are so grateful to God. Grace.
A good friend gave me a waterproof New Testament before I rafted through the Grand Canyon in summer 2011, and several of my friends have been loving these Bibles for reading in the shower and bathtub. (I won’t name them!)
I remember freaking out when one of my friends demonstrated that it really is waterproof: he walked over the sink, turned the water on full blast, and stuck his Bible under the faucet! No harm done. Amazing.
Here’s how the publishers describe these Bibles: [Read more…] about A Waterproof Bible Worth Owning
Jenni and I finished listening to this audiobook last week:
Eric Blehm. Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team Six Operator Adam Brown. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook, 2012.
It’s a gripping story.
It led me to
Cf. the book trailer.
(Thanks, Chuck Hervas, for the recommendation.)
We just put our home up for sale. (We’re planning to move to Minneapolis this summer.)
Please feel free to spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in buying a beautiful, sunlight-filled home in the Greenville-Spartanburg area in South Carolina.
Update on 3/7/2013: Our home is under contract!
I’ve been doing a lot copy-editing over the last seven years. This made me laugh:
By nature editors hate error, but by vocation they are called to deal with it daily. And painfully enough, it is sometimes their own.
Daniel G. Reid, “Commentaries and Commentators from a Publisher’s Perspective,” On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries: Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday 
(ed. Stanley E. Porter and Eckhard J. Schnabel; Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 8; Leiden: Brill, 2013), 464.
Bethlehem College & Seminary (BCS) just announced that I’ll be joining their faculty in August 2013 as Assistant Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology.
Jenni and I are grateful to God and excited to join the BCS family. We’re planning to move to Minneapolis this summer.
If you don’t know much about BCS, these links are a good place to start:
We’re excited to serve at BCS for at least five reasons:
The doctrine BCS affirms and celebrates is what we affirm and celebrate. [Read more…] about We’re Moving to Minneapolis: 5 Reasons We’re Excited to Serve at Bethlehem College and Seminary
These 20 posts from 2012 received the most views this year (my favorite is #20):
Related: These ten posts from 2011 received the most views in 2011:
The opening of Doug Moo’s chapter in Grant Osborne’s Festschrift made me smile:
I consider it a great privilege to be able to contribute an essay to this volume honoring a good friend and, for many years, colleague, Grant Osborne. We served together at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for over twenty years, years that cemented our relationship not only professionally but personally. We lived in the same neighborhood as the Osbornes for many years, and our families grew up together. Seared in my memory especially are times spent with Grant and other Trinity colleagues in an automobile, as we car-pooled together back and forth to Trinity. Students sometimes wondered at the deep theological discussions we profs must have been having during those rides; but I am afraid that our topics of conversation more often focused on the Chicago Bears or Bulls than on millennialism or supra-lapsarianism!
-Douglas J. Moo, “Translation in New Testament Commentaries,” On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries: Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (ed. Stanley E. Porter and Eckhard J. Schnabel; Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 8; Leiden: Brill, 2013), 57.