Posts Tagged ‘Bible Study’
Bible study and other news | Eclectica
In this edition, The Eclectic Web takes you to a couple of interesting links about modern Bible study, as well as other items of interest. In the Beginning Was the Word – Now the Word Is on an App “More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment.” An article about the…
Read MoreWindows: Cutting Straight with the Word of Truth
2 Timothy 2:14–26 Fred Moritz Think with me for a moment about Paul, who made tents to help support himself in his church planting ministry (Acts 18:1–3). We can imagine him as he receives an order for a tent. He lays out the rough camel-hair cloth, with which tents were then made, and places a…
Read Moreme, the Holy Spirit, and my Bible
Don Johnson The great William Tyndale gave us most of our English Bible. He is credited with a quote about desiring to make the Bible such that the common plowboy could understand it. The quote (as many such) may be a bit off. Wikipedia reports it this way: “John Foxe describes an argument with a…
Read MoreLet a Commentary Be Your Guide (3)
Mark Minnick This article follows on an article “That Glorious Company: The Commentators!” published in three parts, here, here and here. This article is likewise published in three parts. This is part three, part one is here, part two is here. Dr. Minnick began this article by telling the story of George Whitfield’s discovery of…
Read MoreLet a Commentary Be Your Guide (2)
Mark Minnick This article follows on an article “That Glorious Company: The Commentators!” published in three parts, here, here and here. This article is likewise published in three parts. This is part two, part one is here. Dr. Minnick began this article by telling the story of George Whitfield’s discovery of commentaries and the training…
Read MoreLet a Commentary Be Your Guide (1)
Mark Minnick This article follows on an article “That Glorious Company: The Commentators!” published in three parts, here, here and here. This article is likewise published in three parts. This is the first part. Gabriel Harris’s streetfront shop was a popular, heavily trafficked Gloucester bookstore in 1735. But in the summer of that same year…
Read MoreThat Glorious Company: The Commentators! (3)
Mark Minnick Part Three of Three: In which Dr. Minnick shares his wisdom on selecting commentaries. [Part One • Part Two] Part One begins by discussing The Basis for Evaluating Commentaries. Part Two discusses The Characteristics of Good Commentaries. Part Three follows: Answering Our Questions Literal Exegesis. Literal exegesis takes the “meaning of language in…
Read MoreThat Glorious Company: The Commentators! (2)
Mark Minnick Part Two of Three: In which Dr. Minnick shares his wisdom on selecting commentaries. [Part One here] Part One begins by discussing The Basis for Evaluating Commentaries. Part Two follows: The Characteristics Of Good Commentaries The cardinal characteristic of a good commentary is that it answers questions. That’s because disciplined expositors begin their…
Read MoreThat Glorious Company: The Commentators! (1)
Mark Minnick Part One of Three: In which Dr. Minnick shares his wisdom on selecting commentaries. There are few writings worth reading twice. But one I’ve enjoyed several times more than twice is the first chapter of C. H. Spurgeon’s Commenting and Commentaries, entitled “A Chat About Commentaries.” Spurgeon loved books. His autobiography contains an…
Read MoreProverbs 31 • How ‘my son’ turned out after all
Don Johnson I recently had the opportunity to teach a college class called Exposition of Proverbs. Proverbs is a much loved book, but I discovered that it is not a book without controversy. This was a surprise to me. The controversies of Proverbs center around the composition, author, and date of the book. Having read…
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