Monthly Archives: February 2016

If you haven’t seen, you can get 60% off all OUP books here. So, for instance, Lampe’s A Patristic Greek Lexicon usually costs $625 but can now be purchased for $250. Too bad I still don’t have the money, even if it’s … Continue reading →

In today’s reading of On the Lord’s Prayer, I discovered this gem explaining why Christians should, according to Tertullian, pray before meals and before taking baths. It is also fitting that the faithful should neither take food nor enter the … Continue reading →

I recently picked up a Logos package that includes Alistair Stewart-Sykes’ translation of Tertullian, Cyrian & Origen’s expositions on the Lord’s Prayer. I decided to take it up as a devotional, pleasure read, and I came across Tertullian’s comment on … Continue reading →

One difficult passage within the pastoral epistles is the expectation that an overseer “manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s … Continue reading →

In my reading on Odd Magne Bakke’s excellent work Concord and Peace, I came across this great except: Futhermore, and this is probably the most important reason for Clement to use just this particular term as the principal term for the … Continue reading →

If you haven’t seen already, Logos has 8/10 of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentaries on sale for $9.99 each (the two excluded volumes are Mark Strauss’ commentary on Mark and Karen Jobes’ on the 1–3 John). This is the best sale I’ve ever seen … Continue reading →

This evening, UPS arrived at my door with a package. Inside—Benjamin J. M. Johnson’s Reading David and Goliath in Greek and Hebrew—was a very generous gift from one of mentors at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Apparently, he read my twitter feed, … Continue reading →