5 Favorite New Reads of 2010

Whereas last year I had a hard time naming 5 good books I read in 2009, I’m having trouble keeping it to 5 for 2010.  Actually, I forgot The Cross and Christian Ministry and The Prodigal God last year, so the list would have been pretty good.  I started making my list earlier this year [...]

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ZECNT Blog Tour: Osborne on Matthew, Part 3

Thank you to Zondervan for a review copy of Grant Osborne’s commentary on Matthew and an opportunity to be a part of the ZECNT Blog Tour.  See also Part 1 and Part 2 of this review. While my first post of this series looked mostly at the overview of the series and the introduction, and [...]

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ZECNT Blog Tour: Osborne on Matthew, Part 2

I posted Part 1 of this review the other day, and I’ll post the third one next week.  All of these are a part of Zondervan’s ZECNT Blog Tour, with a review copy given by Zondervan.  In this post, I want to look briefly at some of the features of the commentary itself.  Each pericope [...]

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ZECNT Blog Tour: Osborne on Matthew, Part 1

A few weeks back I snagged a review copy of Grant Osborne’s new (and monstrous) commentary on Matthew as part of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament Blog Tour.  When I first saw their post, I thought there would be no way I’d read the entire 1100+ pages by December 15, especially given the [...]

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Holidays and Holy Days: 4 Orderly Nonentities

I have two young boys, and every year my wife and I face the question, “What do we do with Santa Claus?”  Harmful?  Innocuous?  Demonic?  Idolatrous?  Innocent fun?  I would gather that most readers of this blog have had enough contact with contemporary Christian culture to know the threads of debate that surround the rotund [...]

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5.5 Random Things #4

5.5.  This post is dedicated to not throwing up.  Why do I take you for granted? 5. Great quote posted by Marcus from Blomberg and Kamell’s commentary on James, one that all students of the Bible would do well to read. 4. I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I didn’t read his post, but [...]

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