Is The Sacred Bridge the best Bible atlas ever? To be fair, people consult atlases for different purposes. But for the one–academic or otherwise–who wants to dig deeply into the historical geography of the biblical world, what’s the best resource available? I believe the reviewer should evaluate a work according to its merits in relation … Continue reading The Best Bible Atlas Ever? Yes. A Review of The Sacred Bridge
Grandma and Grandpa, this post is mostly for you. (Others: feel free to keep reading if you want.) My seven-year-old son received a LEGO Store gift card from his grandparents. So we went on a Saturday morning to the LEGO Store to pick out a couple of sets. I’ve always been an indecisive shopper, and … Continue reading The Joys of a 7-Year-Old with a LEGO Store Gift Card
My now six-year-old has been asking again to learn more Hebrew. We started last spring (see here and especially here), but the Hebrew learning has been largely on hold. We have some materials from Sarah and David’s Read Hebrew, an interactive program to help children (and others) learn Hebrew. The other day, as you can see … Continue reading A 6-Year-Old (re)Learns Some Hebrew
Tonight my wife and I (with her taking the lead) were talking to our six-year-old son all about angels, trying to navigate his series of detailed questions: 6yo son: “What can God do that angels can’t do?” My wife: “Lots of stuff… [she elaborates]… God can do everything….” 6yo son: “So what does he need … Continue reading A Six-Year-Old’s Quick Take on Angels
I mentioned a few weeks ago that my five-year-old son is learning Hebrew, using the materials from Sarah and David. Part of his learning process was to re-shape his English bathtub letters into Hebrew ones, as noted and pictured here. Now (thanks, Diana!) he has real ones: And he’s pretty happy about them, too: More … Continue reading Real Hebrew Bathtub Letters This Time
My 5-year-old son (and his 2-year-old brother) smiled and laughed heartily as they flew a kite today on the beach. Not just any kite. A Jesus Kite. (Yes, real thing.)
You’ve heard of the royal We? It’s all too present in seminarian papers with just a single author: Careful consideration of the textual data leads us to conclude…. Or: We read with the majority of scholars in this case that…. And then there is simply, “We are not amused.” For some time now my wife … Continue reading How to Effectively Use the 2nd Person “We” (Parental Communication Tip #427)
I used to think it was just a scare tactic when professors of biblical languages said, “Use your Greek! Don’t let your Hebrew get rusty, or it will be gone forever!” They were, of course, right. For various reasons I had to have a bit of lag time between Hebrew I and Hebrew II, and … Continue reading Devotions on the Greek New Testament, reviewed
This book tells the story of the friendly beasts. The friendly beasts are a cow, donkey, dove, and lamb. I don’t see another animal. But there’s baby Jesus! And there’s a camel in there. The camel brought him a gift. The donkey carried Jesus’ mama. Jesus was a baby. (I knew that before I even … Continue reading My 5-year-old son reviews The Friendly Beasts
Okay, some lessons from three beachside runs, actually. Because I’ve had three wonderful ones in the last seven days, one at dusk/sunset, and the other two shortly after sunrise. As I ran along the beach a couple times this week, here were some things I thought about, in no particular order: The ocean is awesome. Duh. … Continue reading Some lessons from a beachside run
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