Jan 13, 2023

Cleaning Hacks for Used Books

There is helpful advice here for all you bibliophiles out there. Although I don't buy as many used books these days, there are still helpful titles out there that are out of print and not digitally available. So I will be following some of these suggestions.

Jan 12, 2023

Preaching: The Year’s Best Bibles and Reference

Preaching has provided a pretty nice discussion here of 2021's best Bibles and Bible reference materials. I know it is a year behind but still worth looking at.

Jan 11, 2023

Psalm 101

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 101 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps101.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_101.pdf

James Hamilton Sermon, “The King’s Values” : https://kenwoodbaptistchurch.com/sermons/the-kings-values

Psalm 101 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/114

Daniel Akin sermon resources: https://www.danielakin.com/12-marks-of-a-wise-and-trustworthy-leader-psalm-101

Jan 10, 2023

John and Matthew

This is an interesting post on whether John is aware of or uses Matthew.

Jan 9, 2023

Psalm 100

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 100 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps100.pdf

“Global Gladness” sermon by S. Lewis Johnson: http://sljinstitute.net/miscellaneous-topics/global-gladness

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_100.pdf

John Piper, Education for Exaltation: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/education-for-exultation

Psalm 100 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/113

Daniel Akin sermon resources: https://www.danielakin.com/the-lord-is-god-and-he-is-good-through-the-psalms-series

Jan 8, 2023

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts, Matthew (Eerdmans)
Akiva Cohen

Reed Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena (De Gruyter)
Mareike Verena Blischke

Jože Krašovec, God’s Righteousness and Justice in the Old Testament (Eerdmans)
David G. Firth

Steven L. McKenzie, 1 Kings 16–2 Kings 16 (Kohlhammer)
Cameron B. R. Howard

Jocelyn McWhirter and Sylvie T. Raquel, eds., Teaching the Bible with Undergraduates (SBL Press)
Sandie Gravett

D. Francois Tolmie, Pointing Out Persuasion in Philemon: Fifty Readings of Paul’s Rhetoric From the Fourth to the Eighteenth Century (Mohr Siebeck)
Harry O. Maier

Charlie Trimm, The Destruction of the Canaanites: God, Genocide, and Biblical Interpretation (Eerdmans)
Rory J. Balfour

Barbara Villani, ed., Kyrill von Alexandrien, De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate, Buch 1: Einführung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen (De Gruyter)
Konrad F. Zawadzki