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What is Darius’ Decree?
Darius’ Decree is a custom web search for finding information about the Bible, theology, and Christian life. There are a group of sites that I have found very reliable for providing good, solid information. Darius’ Decree allows me (and you!) to search those sites easily. Want to find information [...]

Mark Dever was interviewed recently at the New Attitude conference, on daily Bible reading. He had this to say about persistence:
What’s one thing you’ve learned after years of reading the Bible about how to read the Bible well?
That’s it’s more important that I keep doing it than what I get out of it at any [...]

I blogged about the beginning of the series here, but Phil Johnson has now concluded his series of posts on Paul at Mars Hill ( the latter half of Acts 17).
The posts in the series are, in order:

Context and Contextualization (Not technically part of the series, but what led to the series to begin [...]

I was looking around for something today on Christian music, and I ran across an article by Steve Camp titled, A sad fad: “God is my Girlfriend” songs. I thought I’d share it with you, as well as file it away for my own future reference; particularly, this part which brings together a number of [...]

John Piper on Preaching As Concept Creation, Not Just Contextualization:
As we think seriously about contextualizing the message of the Bible, let’s remember that we must also labor to bring about, in the minds of our listeners, conceptual categories that may be missing from their mental framework. If we only use the thought structures they already [...]

It is amazing what leaving something out can do to the meaning of an idea.
A great example of this is a new blog, Garfield Minus Garfield. From the description on the site:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar [...]

I ran across a verse the other day that made me pause…
Matthew 8:12

12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (ESV)

What’s this? The sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness? How is that even [...]