Think Wink.

Okay so the introductory material is going to take a lot longer than I anticipated. Here’s the reason why: there is a lot of good stuff in there to just pass up. I really love Habakkuk, my favorite minor prophet. I love the dialogue format of the book and I love some of the themes developed there. I love Habakkuk 3, especially Habakkuk 3:17-19. That chapter, and its concluding verses, are just amazing poetry to me. i love it. Anyways back to the series at hand. We just covered the opening complaint or prayer. Now we turn to God’s response and something we as Christians can take away, as we work towards our target of Habakkuk 2:4. Read more

Redemptive-Historical Preaching and Charles Dennison

Habakkuk 2:4 Part 5–Righteous by Faith

“In his image” and Aramaisms

This post series on Habakkuk 2:4 began with listening to Charles Dennison’s sermons on Habakkuk. Then after going back and reading James Montgomery Boice’s commentary on the prophet, I wanted address issues found in his commentary. Specifically, I wanted to see how the NT used Hab. 2:4 in the three places it appears, namely Romans 1:16-17; Galatians 3:11-14; Hebrews 10:32-39. But having heard about one-third of Dennison’s sermons, I felt there is way too much to the verse and to the book of Habakkuk to just only spend one post on Habakkuk 2:4; one on Romans 1:16-17; one on Galatians 3:11-14; and one on Hebrews 10:32-39. That just seemed to not focus enough on Habakkuk and how to understand Habakkuk 2:4. So I’m expanding it out and focusing quite a bit more on the OT text first before heading to the NT. This is going to expand to may be six posts, or as litle as five. I’m just not sure. So bear with me and I hope the Lord blesses you with these thoughts. Read more

Redemptive-Historical Preaching and Charles Dennison

Habakkuk 2:4 Part 5–Righteous by Faith

Habakkuk 2:4 Part 6–The Galatians Controversy

I took the title of this post from the movie The Ghost and the Darkness, the movie starring Val Kilmore and Michael Douglas about the true story in Africa and the man-eating Tsavo lions that wreaked havoc upon a rail line being built through Tsavo. I remember the line from one of the final scenes where Val is firing his rifle in anticipation of one final conflict with the two lions. As he fires his rifle into the air repeatedly his African friend asks him what is he doing. To which Val replies, “I’m sorting it out!”

I really enjoyed that movie but I’m not sure if the movie has anything to do with what I’m going to think out loud upon, namely the issue of Free Will. Over at Theology for the Masses, Honzo wrote the following post entitled I just don’t get Calvinists. There he wrestles with the compatablist view of free will that Calvinism holds to. This that I’m writing post is not meant to be some deep theological answer or philosophical response to his post. Rather I’m just thinking out loud. Read more

Ezra’s Infinitives

Suzanne McCarthy at the Better Bibles Blog has posted some very awesome Greek resources for those who are interested in pursuing their practice of the Greek and Hebrew languages. These resources include two interlinears and a very good lexicon. I heartily recommend you check them out. I know I will!

H/T: BBB: Additional Translation Resources

The Blogosphere

I Really Like This One

With All His Warts

James Grant posted several sermon series by Charles Dennison at the Between Two Worlds blog. Dennison is one who preaches from a redemptive-historical or “biblical theological” approach. This is a Christ-centered approach follows the Bible along its narrative and shows how it points to Christ while speaking to its own context. Dennison has a series on Habakkuk and Isaiah. While showing how the message fits in the narrative of the Bible and how it applies to the audience of Habakkuk and Isaiah (respectively), these sermons also show how the texts point to Christ. Christ is central without sacrificing the context of the Habakkuk and Isaiah. I’ve started listening to Habakkuk and I’m really liking it. Here are the links to the series Grant linked to, just be warned that the sermons are in Real Audio format:

H/T: Between Two Worlds: Redemptive-Historical Sermons by Charles G. Dennison

The Law in Galatians 3 from a Redemptive-Historical Perspective

Galatians 3:0-14 and Michael F. Bird

Justice Mercy and Homework

The kind folks at IGN.com have put together a list of 10 things that need to be done when Warner Bros. reboot the Superman franchise sometime in the near future. Let me be frank first and say that I m one of the three people who actually liked Superman Returns. It was a classic Superman movie that really followed in the footsteps of the 1970’s original film. But in my opinion, that was its fatal flaw, and the little boy who is Superman’s son and Superman apparently is a naughty boy–he must really stand up for the “American way”! However I love the scene where Superman and Lois are hovering above the earth midway through the movie and the conversation they have. That and the mega-nods to the Messianic nature of Superman and how much he embodies Christ. I find the following list to be a good list and Warner Bros. should heed this advice.

1. A Worthy Set of Villains
2. An Actor Who Can Embody Superman and Clark Kent
3. A Willingness to Diverge From Past Projects
4. A Healthy Respect For What Came Before
5. Maturity Without Being “Dark”
6. No More Super Kid!
7. No Rehashing the Origin
8. A More Believable, Complex Luthor
9. More Showcases of Superman’s Power
10. Keep John Williams, Please

I agree with 1, 5,6,7, 9, 10 the most, most notably 6 and 10. John Williams wrote the perfect tune in the Superman March and he needs to come back to the project for another film. Just take a listen:

Possible Story-Arc For New Supes Movie?

If I were a superhero…

Green Lantern Movie Ideas

This is so funny that I literally could not make a sound. I still can’t stop laughing!

Just watching the squirrel strain to get it out.

Transformers: The Movie

That’s a Good Question

No Doctrine But Love?

Here is a demo to the Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe video game due out in November. I am just so pumped about it and can’t wait to take Superman and tear it up. Enjoy some of the cool features that this game boasts of having.

That answers the question of how the DC heroes can operate in a game called “Mortal Kombat” without actually killing anyone.

Here is a second trailor to the game to showcase it off some. Enjoy.

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I just finished reading Captain America #41. I cannot say enough about this title. Ed Brubaker has truly put together an epic run that is an instant classic. I read the issue and am deeply drawn into the story of following Bucky trying to fill the shoes of his former friend and mentor, Red Skull trying to take over America, Sharon dealing with her captivity. Even in this issue, Brubaker has managed to add more to the story in such a way that it isn’t over the top but rather pulls the reader deeper into his grasp, slowly reading each panel to see if there was something missed so that the reader can try to anticipate Brubaker. If this is the penultimate chapter, I can’t wait to read Captain America #42 and the finale of The Death of Captain America, now in its third act: The Man Who Bought America. And I cannot forget the amazing artwork of Steve Epting. I really don’t want to even think about the inevitable day when someone else will be drawing my favorite comic book hero. No one really puts on paper Captain America like Epting–not Alex Ross (who designed the New Cap suit) and the fill in artists who actually do a great job at keeping continuity in the artwork. Epting just knows his craft really well. This issue is worth the $3.00 and change to own. Or you can wait until November and pay $20 for a hardbound edition that has issues #37-42 as well as some other goodies. I’ll probably buy it too even though I have all of the monthly issues already. I’m going to get Vol. 1 and 3 in November–I wish I got Vol.1 when I was in Chicago in June of this year. Oh well.

It Ends Here!

The New Captain America

Captain America vs. Captain America???

Here is a post by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. on a recently made public discovery of a stone that speaks of a suffering Messiah that predates Jesus. He asks the question,

But there is no doubt that one of the key debates in the days ahead will be the concept of a Suffering Messiah. Was this a real part of the TENAK (=Old Testament), or is this concept of a Suffering Anointed One and his Resurrection a Christian imposition or is it a reinterpretation of the TENAK?

He takes his answer from Isaiah 50:4-11 and says

If the “Dead Sea Scroll in Stone” exhibits any message similar to what the prophet Isaiah laid out in the Third Servant Song, we are in for some very interesting Jewish-Evangelical dialogues! Perhaps the Church can pick up where it broke off from the Synagogue in the second to fourth Christian centuries! This would be one giant step forward for all who take Scripture and history seriously.

Here is the entire post: Koinonia: “A Dead Sea Scroll in Stone” by Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

Martin Luther and the Dead Sea Scrolls

BW3 and the Gabriel Stone

Tolkien and Predestination