This video clip of comedian Brian Regan never ceases to make me laugh:
This one is pretty funny, too. I often think about it when I’m boarding a plane:
humor
Correcting Bible Translations Can Seem Like This at Times
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).
A Good Excuse for Not Wearing Neckties
Public-health officials trying to reduce hospital-acquired infections have adopted this one:
forbidding doctors to wear neckties because, as the U.K. Department of Health has noted, they
- “are rarely laundered,”
- “perform no beneficial function in patient care,” and
- “have been shown to be colonized pathogens.”
—Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Super Freakonomics, p. 298 (bullet-points added).
Parents Obey Children?
After Kara learned Ephesians 6:1 (“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right”), our twenty-two-month-old started teasing us last night that parents should obey children!
Mostly Dead vs. All Dead
This video clip from The Princess Bride is my favorite light-hearted illustration of the Arminian view of human depravity (an issue integrally related to prevenient grace):
http://vimeo.com/28442042
This is the notable part of the exchange:
“Well it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. . . . Now mostly dead is slightly alive. All dead—well, with all dead, there’s only usually one thing that you can do.”
“What’s that?”
“Go through his clothes and look for loose change.”
Another good illustration of the effectual call and regeneration:
Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
The dead man came out . . . . (John 11:43–44)
Recommended resources:
- William W. Combs, “Does the Bible Teach Prevenient Grace?” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 10 (2005): 3–18.
- John Piper, “Total Depravity,” in “TULIP” (a nine-part seminar available in audio and video), 2008.
- Thomas R. Schreiner, “Does Scripture Teach Prevenient Grace in the Wesleyan Sense?” in Still Sovereign: Contemporary Perspectives on Election, Foreknowledge, and Grace (ed. Thomas R. Schreiner and Bruce A. Ware; Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000), 229–46.
The Youngest Young Fundamentalists
a guest post by Jenni Naselli
1. John Piper and Bethlehem Baptist Church have Children Desiring God.
2. The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International national conference this week has “When I grow up, I want to be a fundamentalist.”
Meatatarian Prooftext
Proverbs 15:17
- NET: Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened ox where there is hatred. - NASB: Better is a dish of vegetables where love is
Than a fattened ox served with hatred. - ESV: Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
than a fattened ox and hatred with it. - NIV: Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened calf with hatred. - TNIV: Better a small serving of vegetables with love
than a fattened calf with hatred. - NLT: A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better
than steak with someone you hate.
Do you speak KJV?
Quote of the day:
I was raised on the KJV, so I’m bilingual.
–Walter Kaiser this afternoon in a Panel Discussion of Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament at ETS