I recently watched eighteen short videos on elementary Greek grammar:
H. Daniel Zacharias. The Singing Grammarian: Songs and Visual Presentations for Learning New Testament Greek Grammar. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2011.
The videos aren’t lectures. They’re catchy songs.
Here’s the first one:
“Institutions are by nature large and inflexible beasts with fiefdoms that must be protected and rules that must not be broken.”
—Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Super Freakonomics, p. 103.
Mark Dever, What Is a Healthy Church? 
(IX Marks; Wheaton: Crossway, 2007), p. 79:
Quick Tips: How to Find a Good Church
1. Pray.
2. Seek counsel from a godly pastor (or from elders).
3. Keep your priorities straight.
- The gospel must be truly affirmed, clearly preached, and faithfully lived out. A serious lack in any of these expressions of the gospel is very dangerous.
- The preaching must be faithful to Scripture, personally challenging, and central to the congregation’s life. You will only grow spiritually where Scripture is treated as the highest authority. [Read more…] about How to Find a Good Church
HT: Stick World via Abraham Piper
Related: How Not to Argue about Which Bible Translation Is Best
Update on 3/31/2017: In my latest attempt to explain how to interpret and apply the Bible, I include a chapter on Bible translation (pp. 50–81).
Tim Challies explains.
Related:
Robert Letham reviews Kevin Giles’s The Trinity and Subordinationism (Downers Grove: IVP, 2002) in this eight-page appendix:
Robert Letham. “Appendix 2: Kevin Giles on Subordinationism.” Pages 489–96 in The Holy Trinity: In Scripture, History, Theology, and Worship. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2004.
Letham explains,
Kevin Giles, vicar of St. Michael’s Church in North Carlton, Australia, has for thirty years contended for the ordination of women. . . .
He targets conservative evangelicals who maintain a hierarchical view of the sexes on the basis of a presumed hierarchy of being, function, or role in the Trinity. By subordinationism he means the idea that the Son is eternally set under the Father. . . . All forms of subordinationism [Giles argues] are ruled out, both by Scripture and church tradition. From this it follows that arguments for the subordination of women cannot be buttressed by appeal to the Trinity.
Letham disagrees with Giles for three major reasons: [Read more…] about Letham Reviews Giles on Subordinationism
I plan to leave today for an eight-day rafting trip through the Grand Canyon, so this blog will be quiet until July 18.
I’ve had several friends go on this same trip with Canyon Ministries in previous summers, and they all loved it. Some people who go on this trip are young-earth creationists, some aren’t, and some are undecided.
Here are some previous reflections on this rafting trip:
