Posted in Bible, Seminary, Sermons on October 27, 2007 | No Comments »
In Robert Chisholm’s wonderful book on exegesis, I’ve come to the chapter bringing all the tools together and giving examples. I can’t recreate it all here, but I did appreciate the exposition after seeing all of the rigorous language work that went into it. For those that wonder about the process that preachers go through, [...]
Posted in Mac, PC, Seminary, Software, Writing on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Students banging out their final papers this semester with Microsoft Word 2007 will be interested in this tutorial on creating and managing references, courtesy of Microsoft. The references tab on Word 2007’s new ribbon offers a slick way to enter your sources and choose a style to display them, from APA to Chicago to MLA.
As [...]
Posted in Blogs, Quotes, Seminary on October 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael Patton has reflect on his person opinions and their contrast to DTS, and I find it to be thoughtfully and succinctly written. I find much agreement with his writing, and did not previously know the distinctives of DTS. The only point upon which Patton disagrees is upon the rejection of limited atonement. This is [...]
Posted in Files, Resources, Seminary, Sermons, Software, Theology on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterday Logos started taking orders for the John Piper Collection which contains 24 of his books. With an MSRP of $360, it will most likely sell for $170 when it comes out and is available for preorder at $150. Production will begin when enough preorders have been made. Note, this is different [...]
Posted in Audio, Bible, Seminary, Thoughts on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
If you don’t fear the Lord, there isn’t anything you won’t say, no place you won’t go, and not a thing you won’t touch - so explained Les Lofquist, executive director of the IFCA, at the TMS Chapel this morning as he exhorted the seminary students to have a real fear of God.
Fear? I [...]
Posted in Files, Media, Seminary, Sermons, Theology on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Dr. Timothy George is the Dean of Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. He is delivering the Page Lectures this week at Southeastern Seminary, entitled “The Five Revolutions of the Reformation Era.” Click here for the podcast, or here for the referring page. Thanks Denny!
Posted in Articles, Family, Seminary, Thoughts on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Over at the Resurgence blog, and linked through by Said at Southern, here is some helpful advice:
1. Breathe. In and out, slowly. Once you get the rhythm, slowly let your body take it over for you. This helps tremendously when you need to stay alive.
Ok, here we go:
Posted in Articles, Baptist, Bible, Church, Seminary, Thoughts on September 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
For many seminary students it is difficult not to hear the murmuring caused by a certain anonymous open-letter to the trustees of the SBTS and SWBTS, the largest and most influential of the Southern Baptist seminaries. Perhaps you have not read all that has been said, and it may be to our benefit not [...]
Posted in Links, Seminary, Tools on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
The Resurgence Greek Project not only offers the text of the Septuagint (LXX) but has programmed parsing and simple translation information on mouse-over. Check it out! Though it may not be the best manuscript, this is by far the best web-based original language tool that I’ve found.
Other resources off the top of my [...]
Posted in Books, Sale, Seminary on September 13, 2007 | No Comments »
If you’re like me, you have more books than you can realistically read. Yet, you keep buying more thinking that they will be useful one day. After all, people pour their lives into the writing, and we only pore over it for an hour or three to glean their reflection. With that [...]
