Monthly Archives: April 2005

The leaders in Jerusalem killed Jesus with the support of the mob. You would think that the Apostles would be rather upset about this, and sometimes they show they were. But they also do something quite different: And now, brothers, … Continue reading →

OK, here’s a question for all the Bible scholars out there: First, look at this text preferably using the option of stripping out chapter and verse. How would you describe the relationship between 1.19-23, 2.1-7, and 2.11-22? We could say … Continue reading →

Here is Titus 1.1 in the ASV (precursor to the NASB): Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness. … Continue reading →

You say truly, young sir, that God’s Church is now an anvil, but remember for your consolation that it is an anvil which has worn out many hammers.”

I notice that the Pastor of Trinity PCA in Rye, NY has published a paper on baptism.

So the other day I walk into Shop & Save and see an elderly frail gentleman pulling a grocery cart and simultaneously pushing a wheelchair with an elderly women wearing an oxygen tube under her nose–his wife, I assume. They … Continue reading →

It has been an exhausting weekend with two days spent travelling and lecturing and then another road trip yesterday with the family to do pulpit supply. I loved my time speaking, listening, and leading worship, but it adds up to … Continue reading →

Here are two quotations. One is from the Bible and the other is uninspired Jewish literature that was widely read in Second Temple Judaism. Can you tell which is which? Wine is unrighteous, the king is unrighteous, women are unrighteous, … Continue reading →

In Nineteen-EIGHTY-seven, or thereabouts, my hair was longer than Mark’s (in 77 I was barely ten, so I couldn’t compete then). I’m not posting pictures. Bad enough I have to explain to my children why Daddy’s left ear has a … Continue reading →

One of the frustrating things about some writings within the so-called “New Perspective on Paul” is the mistake that justification by general good works can simply be equated with Pelagianism. The claim is made that Paul’s contemporaries were not Pelagians … Continue reading →