Interesting article from the CNN Belief Blog on phrases that sound biblical but aren’t eg ‘This, too, shall pass’, have a biblical basis, but are altered eg ‘Pride goes before a fall’, and also extra biblical speculation which sometimes are based on biblical accounts eg ‘three wise men’ and other times are just sheer fantasy …
After some introductory material in a post at Desiring God, John Piper answers his own question. I’m happy to preach any text to any group because I try to exegete the text, not my audience. So I ask again: What tone should you aim at in preaching? My answer is: Pursue the tone of the …
The King James Bible is receiving renewed attention to mark the 400th anniversary of its publication. As anyone who has tried to read a facsimile of an early edition will attest there have been some revisions of the original since its publication. Michael Bird has a short post which summarises a published article on the …
John McClean, Presbyterian minister, Vice-Principal at the Presbyterian Theological Centre, Sydney, where he teaches Systematic Theology has had a post published on the ABC Religion and Ethics web portal entitled: ‘That Scripture may speak like itself’: The KJB and the Word of God. McClean begins: If the KJB project was an attempt to reduce the …
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