Is it right for Christians to oppose authorities? Should Luther have acknowledged the authority of Charles V in Worms in 1521 instead of saying “Here I stand; I can do no other”? Should William Tyndale have saved his life by submitting to the authorities 500 years ago and not have translated the NT into English […]
Category: Religion Eng.
No, Antioch is not a model of church planting
It is common today to consider church planting as the duty of the Church and the best evangelism method. Yet there is near unanimous consensus among Bible commentators that there is little or no explicit mandate or encouragement to evangelize and plant churches in the New Testament and in the Early Church texts.1 Where they […]
Greek with XeTeX
One of my interests is ancient Greek (see my NT Greek course). When I started using it used to be somewhat complicated to switch from whichever language one is using to Greek. It is now quite easy if you use XeTeX. This is the way I do it. The following instructions are for the Mac. […]
Public Speaking is not Public Reading
Though I have several opportunities to go to professional conferences every year, I don’t actually often attend them. One reason is that I have to pay for them. When you factor in travel, hotels, expenses, etc., it gets quite expensive. Another reason is that I sometimes wonder whether they are really worth the time and […]