Accordance for iOS
Those who use Accordance 9 Bible software may be interested to know that it’s now available for the iPhone and iPad. It’s a free app, and if you already have purchased modules, they can be used. Details here.
Mark’s Gospel performed by Max McLean
Looking for something worthwhile to watch on New Year’s Eve?
Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds points out that the video of Max McLean performing The Gospel According to Mark is available in its entirety on YouTube, thanks to the Fellowship for the Performing Arts Theater Company.
See at all here – you can see the entire Gospel performed in about 90 minutes. Well worth your time.
Two-Year Bible Reading Plan
One of the most-searched-for terms on our website is “Bible reading plans” – and here Stephen Witmer on The Gospel Coalition website has some helpful thoughts – as well as a quote from Robert Murray M’Cheyne.
Barry Newman on ‘Science & Genesis 1:1–2:3′
Barry Newman has now uploaded all his blog posts on “Science and Genesis 1:1 – 2:3″ as a single PDF file.
“One of the most significant areas that we believers need to address is the scepticism that arises because of what is perceived to be the consequences for belief of commitment to certain cosmological, biological evolutionary, anthropological, psychological and sociological theories. This blog series and ones hopefully to follow, will attempt to examine afresh the early chapters of Genesis to see what implications there are for such theories. Its main emphasis however will be on the text of Scripture itself rather than the theories themselves.”
– There’s plenty to provoke thought and further investigation.
Assurance and Perseverance
“I was recently asked to write a brief response to a question about assurance. The questioner had been troubled by the question (or rather by some responses to the question) ‘Can a believer lose their salvation?’
The question of assurance is a deeply troubling one for many. In every church where I have served there have been people who have struggled with this question…”
– Mark Thompson writes on “Assurance and Perseverance” at Theological Theology.
See also Mark’s (unrelated) previous post, Whatever happened to ad fontes?
“Many of the great advances of the Renaissance and Reformation eras were built upon the humanist program of education in the eloquence of antiquity. Intellectuals such as Desiderius Erasmus believed that society could be improved, and the abuses and errors of the past corrected, through serious and extensive engagement with classical literature.
In the field of theology, one of the most decisive changes was an insistence on first-hand engagement rather than a reliance on secondary summaries of great thoughts from the past. Instead of relying on the Vulgate, Greek and Hebrew studies flourished. Instead of working from collections of purple passages from the church fathers, reading extensively in their works was encouraged as a means of properly understanding the context and significance of things they taught…”
Christmas Day sermon 2010 — Bp Stuart Robinson
Read Bishop Stuart Robinson’s Christmas Day sermon — to be preached this morning at St. John’s Reid, in Canberra. (PDF file.)
Peter Jensen’s 2010 Christmas message
See Archbishop Peter Jensen’s 2010 Christmas message – 90 second video. Text here.
“Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, came to dwell among us, and save us from our failures.”
9Marks end of year video
Mark Dever and Matt Schmucker report on what 9Marks has been up in 2010.
Bishop Don Harvey’s Christmas message
Bishop Don Harvey, Bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada, shares his Christmas message for 2010:
“The good news of this great gift cannot be suppressed. We feel compelled to share it with a world of people who have wandered in so many sad directions, never successfully finding what they seek…
Each of us is entrusted with taking a part in seeing that ‘this Saviour who is Christ the Lord’ is made known to others as indeed He is made known to us.”