In For Another Winter Storm

Quick update.

I’m alive. Although several cars were buried under snow in the ditches of I-90, and at least one truck and trailer was completely overturned, I safely arrived back from the Black Hills to my study in Southern SD. Today’s church services, including the annual Valentine’s Banquet and youth kick-off event, were post-poned until next week. Much appreciation for all prayers for the work of this ministry as well as Memorial Baptist Church in Parkston, SD.

What a fabulous and concise post by Evolution News and Views. How can some people be so dogmatic about Darwinism?

What a revealing and much needed-exposure video by AOMin. If there was ever a vivid example of real apologetics and poser-apologetics, this is it. Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention, or at least who attend Baptist churches in the dirty South, really need to distance themselves from Caner (President of Liberty Theological Seminary), and get closer to Albert Mohler Jr. and Tom Ascol.

This past January I finished reading through the Bible (NASB 1995) taking notes on theological anthropology and gender/sexuality. Now that I have (with some assistance of the RA Chief Editor) narrowed down my master’s thesis, I’ll be taking up another year-long thematic reading of the Bible to develop a biblical theology of thought and cognition, which will then be compared with contemporary neuroscience. I also finished up the first volume of Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics (superb read; although I don’t recommend it if you don’t have at least an introductory knowledge of church history and Latin/Greek/Hebrew) a few weeks ago. So volume two will be sitting on my shelf for the next year. Mmm, tasty.

In the meantime, I continue to finish the final portion of my presentation-essay on Calvin, Bavinck, and 21st Century views of inerrancy. It will contain a brief look at some of the most challenging (or at least creative) works regarding inerrancy, which include:

Peter Enns’ Incarnation and Inspiration (critiqued by Frame, Carson, and Beale)
A.T. B. McGowan’s The Divine Authenticity of Scripture (critiqued by James W. Scott)
Robert Price’s Inerrant the Wind