@TIME There’s no such thing as giving your kids access to the internet. You’re giving the internet access to your kids. Innocence is precious. Protect it at all costs.
New resource live on my website: Historic Wesleyan Bible Commentaries.
John Wesley and early Methodists produced a rich body of biblical commentaries. This page introduces them and links to FREE online editions.
Here: https://t.co/LLF0dg7Sby
#WesleyanTheology#BiblicalStudies
Excited to receive my advance copy of Gospel Birth Narratives and Historiography: Reopening a Closed Case (@Baylor_Press)!
Thesis: ancient biographers—including Matthew & Luke—intended their birth narratives to be not legendary but historical.
#BiblicalStudies#NewTestament
@wendelltalks Popular evangelical author Philip Yancey had a brother named Marshall who delighted in noting his fav verse: 1 Chronicles 26:18 - “At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.”
A great caution:
"Would-be theologians...must be on their guard lest by beginning too soon to preach they rather chatter themselves into Christianity than live themselves into it and find themselves at home there." (Soren Kierkegaard, Journal, July 11, 1838)
Retrospectively hilarious.
October 16, 1701: Unhappy with growing liberalism at Harvard, Congregationalists found Collegiate School, later known as Yale.
A father camping with his family in Yosemite discovered a handwritten note on his windshield from a fellow camper who had stayed in the spot behind them.