Category Archives: Language and Vocabulary

COULD WE BAN THESE PLEASE?!

Five (so far) things I hear far too often:

On “great” preaching: He’s killing it!

On being friends with a “great” preacher: My boy is killing it!

On everything from doughnuts to the gospel: I have a passion for…

On pastors introducing their wives: Married to the most beautiful woman in the world.

On receiving some new books in the mail: These puppies just came in.

TRANSLATING ANCIENT LANGUAGES

Here is a group of evangelical scholars deciding on whether slave or servant is the best translation for the the ESV.  You will see JI Packer who endorsed both my wife’s book, and my first book.  Wayne Grudem leads the discussion.  Wayne was our faculty adviser, directed my thesis and kindly wrote a blurb for the book edition.