We hosted our first ever Halloween … thing tonight. That is, we (I) bought some (not enough) candy (some of which was unwrapped candy corn) to give to the little kiddies that would surely come by. And come by they did – we probably saw 15 or 20 kids tonight. Some of [...]
In Greek class today, we found a tremendous online resource for studying the original language of the New Testament:
http://www.zhubert.com
This is INSANELY good – exactly what I would expect from a perfect NT Greek website. It’ll parse words on the fly, cross-reference them, give definitions, create fancy graphs … see, for example, John 3:16 and [...]
Today was the day of the second meeting of a bunch of local ministers, including Pastor Tom and me. The group was the same size as last time – just six people showed up, even though apparently more had e-mailed the host church’s pastor saying they would come. We talked about things that [...]
So it looks like I’ll be teaching at Taylor again, but only for a few days this time. Dr. DeLong has been given a grant to do some research this coming January, and the other day Dr. Benbow e-mailed to see if I’d be interested in covering his MAT120 (Investigations in Mathematics) course this [...]
In a short section on the phrase “kingdom of God,” my Intro to the NT textbook discusses how that phrase is a bit outdated. We just don’t see too many kingdoms these days. So the authors go on to discuss how many modern people have changed the language to “reign of God.” [...]
