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- 01/04/11
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It’s our annual Week of Prayer at Grace Fellowship Church, which means that for two hours a day (one hour in the morning and one in the evening) we spend time in corporate prayer, praying through the lists of all those who attend, through the lists of other local churches, and for countless other things. What a great time this always is.
Rest and the Pastor’s Soul - Thabiti (Thabiti is now like Sting and Bono and Madonna—a guy who is known by just one name) offers some wise counsel for pastors on when and how to take times of rest.
Another New NIV? - Marvin Olasky looks at the new NIV. “The NIV was then the most trusted Bible in America, with slightly over a 50 percent market share. Many evangelicals felt betrayed when a small committee secretly made changes that appealed to feminists. WORLD called the new translation the Stealth Bible, and that designation stuck.”
Reclaiming Adoption - Here’s a review of Cruciform Press’ latest book, Reclaiming Adoption. “Perhaps the greatest personal endorsement I can give is to say that Cruver's book has convinced me and my wife (and even my three children) to seriously pray, asking our Father if He would provide the means and method by which our family might live out of our adoption as Abba's children by adding another child to our family or giving us the opportunity to care for orphans. I'm excited to see what He does with this.”
End of Days in May - To echo my pal Greg Lucas, Harold Camping says Jesus will return in May. My theology tells me he’s wrong; my heart hopes he’s accidentally right. This article talks about his latest prognostication (and those who just never give up on him).
An MTV Abortion - Denny Burk: “Last week I saw a news story about the MTV program "16 and Pregnant," which was set to air an episode featuring a young mother who chose to have an abortion. The mother's name is Markai Durham, and she already had one child when she became pregnant a second time. She and the father decided that they didn't have the resources to raise a second child, and that is why they chose to end the life growing inside her.”
The Daily Habit of Simplifying - This is a short article with some really practical advice on de-cluttering your home.
7 Billion - National Geographic offers up lots of interesting facts in this short video about the world’s population which is projected to soon hit 7 billion.
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Comments (11)
This controversy over the new NIV and TNIV is overblown. D.A. Carson and Doug Moo are very comfortable with this as are countless other conservative type theologians and translators. This seems to be a power struggle and political maneuver to give Mr. Olasky and others who do not seem to be translators or ever have been translators, for a profession, some creditability in the translation world. I do not see this same type of vitriol used on other paraphrases and translation that actually do what these concerned group says the Niv is doing. But please tell me if I am wrong. It seems to come down to this though. Read your Bible and do what it says. And if you own a paraphrase recognize it as such and don’t pass it off as a translation.
Oh, for goodness sakes! Can we stop demonizing the NIV already? The ESV is not somehow more sacred than other English translations, and nobody on the NIV translation committee is out to get Christians or trick them into becoming worldly.
Comments like “Many evangelicals felt betrayed when a small committee secretly made changes that appealed to feminists” are inaccurate, unfair, and embarrassing to me as an evangelical Christian.
“(Thabiti is now like Sting and Bono and Madonna—a guy who is known by just one name)” Don’t you mean “a person who is known…”? Madonna isn’t a guy.
Here’s a link to Olasky’s article that is not behind World Mag’s paywall: http://townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2010/12/30/another_new_niv/p…
Just so long as he never goes by “The Pastor Formerly Known As Thabiti”.
I don’t often comment—-in fact I’m not sure that I ever have. I just wanted to say thank you for your work and especially the A La Carte posts. Thank you.
Has anyone else noticed that it’s always the elderly who are predicting the end of the world?
I want to see posts on the NIV by scholars like Carson, Moo, and others rather than stuff by Olasky.
Thabiti? Could the single name simply be an attempt to avoid mistakes with Anyabwile?
[Full disclosure: Did that as a cut and paste from Pure Church blog just to be safe…]
While the MTV story about abortion may be more prevalent, God is still doing miracles in this area.
I wrote about one, very personal:
http://lovedoesntletgo.blogspot.com/2011/01/miracle-of-christopher-danie…
I watched the MTV special on abortion and it was heartbreaking. If it is just a lump of cells then why are these people suffering so much? The ways in which people try and convince the mother that she’s doing the right thing only prove even more that she is not. This is sad to watch but an interesting look at what the world tells us is right and how we try and justify murder.
Stamping Out Harold Camping
Is Second Coming date-setter Harold Camping worthy of death? He already has a zero batting average after his September 1994 prediction fizzle and, according to the Bible, is a false prophet. Nevertheless that California shaman, who should be ashamed, claims he’s found out that Christ’s return will be on May 21, 2011 even though Matt. 24:36 says that no one knows the “day” or “hour” of it! A Google article (“Obama Fulfilling the Bible”) points out that “Deut. 18:20-22 in the Old Testament requires the death penalty for false prophets.” The same article reveals that “Christians are commanded to ask God to send severe judgment on persons who commit and support the worst forms of evil (see I Cor. 5 and note ‘taken away’).” Theologically radioactive Harold Camping and his ga-ga groupies (with their billboards featuring “May 21, 2011”) should worry about being “stamped out” if many persons decide to follow the I Cor. 5 command. The above article concludes: “False prophets in the OT were stoned to death. Today they are just stoned!”
[noted the above while webbing away!]