Mark Horne

Luke 6.32: “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.”
Jesus knew that everyone was evil (except him) and that everyone sinned. Nevertheless, he used the term “sinner” for an identifiable class, just like the Pharisees. (Matthew, Mark, and Luke do [...]

Won’t be blogging much for the next week. Traveling to DuBois, PA and then the Nashville area.

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This is SO funny.

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I have written a commentary on Mark’s Gospel. I have studied it. So I am teaching through Mark in a weekly Bible study at the workplace of an elder in my church. A few weeks ago I read out loud:
And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him [...]

We know the passage well:
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus [...]

In Isaiah 48 we read:
Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver;
I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.
For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
for how should my name be profaned?
My glory I will not give to another.
In the context of a prophecy that God will deliver his people [...]

If Dr. Esther Meek keeps her promise, this is the first of five installments on epistemology. I have been greatly enjoying her book, Longing to Know. If you are wondering what it might have to offer, this series seems like a good way to get a taste.
While I haven’t finished the book, Wayne [...]

I wonder if there is any quantitative method for estimating how often or how much we falsify the past out of reverence for it.
One of my favorite media realities is the A&E version of Pride & Prejudice. I’ve always wondered how it compares to the book. I eventually read the book and it [...]

So naturally I spend the evening with one foot propped up and ice on a toe and keep popping Ibuprophen (sp?) for that issue as well as some sort of muscle twist/pull I got trying to stand in a canoe while maintaining my balance.
Worse, lots of witnesses now know first hand how loud I snore.

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Back from my second overnight camp out. This one was father-son; the earlier was for PRPC staff and seminary students who all just got done with finals.
It is horrifying amid all this real life to see how much I’ve let my writing be impacted by weird political matters. Quite boring. I’ll try [...]

Dr. Chapell has a helpful statement on the New Perspective here. I’m still working through it, but I certainly appreciate the tone and agree with the conclusion:
We need the Lord’s wisdom to know what needs to be defended, what needs to be denounced, and what needs to be ignored because it only appeals to [...]

From Lauren Winner, p. 27:
The epistle reading today is from the fifth chapter of Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians. Paul tells them that when Jesus returns, he will come like a thief in the night. “But you, beloved,” he writes,” are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; [...]

Ephesians is the Word of God. It was written by the Apostle Paul. I mention this because anyone looking at Ephesians will find themselves firmly on the firefight that is being waged in the Evangelical subculture over the so-called “New Perspective on Paul.” They will find themselves embroiled in it because Ephesians [...]

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had [...]

I knew this would happen. You can’t keep a good man down. No one should be surprised that RC took care of this like a Christian should.
And, if you care about such things, “you can’t keep a good man down” is my loose paraphrase of Proverbs 24.16.

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Two sermons at sermonaudio that I preached recently:
God’s Own Armor
Adoption: Vocation of Son and Spirit
Amazingly, since the time of preaching this sermon I finally have been healed of that cough you hear, which has hung with me since November.

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Doing busy work at my computere, I’ve god my DVD player showing me Gaffin’s and Wright’s first face-to-face Q&A. Wright is asked if he has not neglected Genesis 1-11 (and the seriousness of the Fall and sin and the historical origin of both) in his concentration on Israel. Wright simply says he thought [...]

Here’s a confession: I’m not really happy with homeschooling. I wish we had other options. Nevertheless, I am often truly glad that we do it.
My daughter works in the guidance office of her high school. She runs errands, takes calls, files paperwork, and does all she can to help guidance counselors as they [...]

My friend and St Louis area blogger, Rick, sent me some scary information. First, here is a column from congressman Ron Paul. Second, here is a website devoted to the issue.
We are not kept safe by being watched by a national bureaucracy. It is fine to talk about trading security for liberty, [...]

Theologia Rising

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