Monday, November 14, 2005

Quote of the day

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"As far as the Laws of Mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality...

What to take

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One of the problems on a trip is what to take to read. I always want to make sure I have enough to read, but don't want to overload the ...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

Another shipment gone

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Yesterday the ASOR shipment left and the followup shipment for ETS. But, we are still waiting for the books from Israel. Now they tell me ...
Friday, November 11, 2005

Rick Brannan's Biblioblogger Paper for the SBL

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Interesting paper here about Bibliobloggers. Thanks to Jim West for the link. It looks interesting, but how many bloggers will implement ...

Another good book

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I have been collecting what books I am planning on reading during my trip next week, not that I will get much reading time, once I look at t...
Thursday, November 10, 2005

Fall

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I love Fall. I love the crisp mornings, the sound of leaves crunching under your feet as you walk. I make a point of going out of my way to ...

Clean desk

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I am finally cleaning the stuff off my desk that has been accumulating since August. Wow, amazing what you find. I found the install disk f...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Computer update

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I got a new modem yesterday afternoon, Dave had called Dell tech support and told them in no uncertain terms it was the modem and to send us...

More thoughts on The Three Battlegrounds

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I was reading some more in Frangipane's The Three Battlegrounds last night. Chapter 6 has a a good line, "...the purpose of all as...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Eisenbrauns' conference order forms on the web

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We just posted our conference order forms on the web, check it out here . But, if you go directly there, you will miss the blurb on the ho...

ETS and AAR/SBL shipments

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Whew! The shipments for both shows have left (thanks for the help loading!). The only thing that didn't get here on time was the shipmen...

Book thoughts

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A few of us in our church (a house-church) are going through Francis Frangipane's The Three Battlegrounds . The header of chapter 5 is ...
Monday, November 07, 2005

Sermon on the Mount

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There is an excellent post by Scot McKnight over on Jesus Creed about the Sermon on the Mount. I think he is right on target. The Sermon o...

New digital camera

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I got a new digital camera for work last Friday. We are going to use it for conferences, but I need to learn how to use the thing. It has a ...

Another new book from Eisenbrauns

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The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem Judah under Babylonian Rule Eisenbrauns - EIS by Oded Lipschits Eisenbrauns, 2005 xiv + 474 pp....
Friday, November 04, 2005

Soup day

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We tried something different today at lunch. Everyone brought a can of non-tomato based soup. We threw it all together in a crockpot and le...

ETS/AAR/SBL/ASOR Alphabet soup

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We are entering the final stretch. Yesterday the books (except for a few stragglers) were all picked and priced for AAR/SBL. That is a job,...
Thursday, November 03, 2005

Worship?

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We were talking to our son last night on the phone, and he mentioned that the worship at a church he visited recently was wonderful. That g...
Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Books, part 2

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I started reading Let's Start with Jesus by Dennis Kinlaw. He was one of my theology professors at Asbury Seminary. I caught him immed...

Books I'm reading

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Last night I finished Calvary Road by Roy Hession. I hadn't read it in about 25 years. My favorite line is still the beginning of the ...