The Coffee Sweet Symphony – I found this highly amusing and entertaining. This guy is singularly focused on one thing, and it is like a symphony on the taste buds. Enjoy! Inside Amazon Warehouse – As large as Amazon is, it’s often mind-boggling and pretty amazing how they manage to fulfill all those orders with few…
Memorize Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:16-17
In last week’s passage, Paul reminds Timothy of his upbringing, and how he had been taught the Scriptures since childhood. In that passage, he states again the relationship between the Scriptures and salvation. From there, he state just how critical the words of God are for ministry, giving Timothy a brief explanation of their origin….
Book Review – Titus For You by Tim Chester
The Pastoral Epistles, which include 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus, are by far some of the most practical letters in the New Testament when it come to ministry. In these short epistles, Paul writes to two young men who are leading churches: Timothy, in Ephesus, and Titus, in Crete. These letters are full of…
Book Review – 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Translation
I’ve long had a fascination with the early chapters of Genesis, and the early earth history that they contain. Almost everything I’ve ever read centered around these chapters is centered upon the text themselves. However, early Judaism has several traditions concerning those early centuries that are not found in the book of Genesis. Although these…
Book Review – 1 Enoch: The Hermeneia Commentary, Volume 1
I recently received a translation of 1 Enoch, along with the first volume of a new commentary from Fortress Press. I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with the level of scholarship evident in these volumes. I’ve never had the opportunity to use anything from Fortress Press before this, and I found this commentary to…
Understanding The Purpose Of Man
Philosophers have wrestled for centuries with the question, “What is man?” It’s not a new question. And it’s a topic that has been on my mind a lot recently, with a new role in life as a lead minister, the size of my family growing, and the fact that I’ve reached the mid-point of my…