At times like these when so much public attention is suddenly given to race and racism, it is easy for some European Americans to give in to White guilt. My teenagers sometimes come home from school loaded down by White…
Understanding and Countering Racism with Help from Being White by Harris and Schaupp (part 1)
Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World (InterVarsity Press) is a book full of insights for White Christians who want to understand and counter racism in our country and in our world. The authors are White Christians who…
Book Recommendation: Of Games and God: A Christian Exploration of Video Games by Kevin Schut
Everyone can see how prevalent video games have become in the lives of young people, and even in the lives of those who are not so young. Kevin Schut, a professor at Trinity Western University wrote this book to help…
Parenting Adolescents by Kevin Huggins (part 3): Building Relationships with Teens that Can Endure the Tests of Conflict
Should I Become More or Less Involved with My Teen? In chapter 7, Huggins addresses the subject of how to respond to conflicts with our teens. Like many of you, I do not always want to admit that conflict is…
Parenting Adolescents by Kevin Huggins (part 2): Encouraging Teens to Be Free Agents
Teens as Free Agents with Choices to Make One of the challenges that I received from reading Parenting Adolescents was in chapter 10, “Responding to the Purposes in an Adolescent’s Heart.” In this chapter, he says that one of the…
Book Recommendation: Parenting Adolescents by Kevin Huggins (part 1)
Kevin Huggins, a biblical counselor and minister, wrote this book in 1989 to help parents of teenagers. I found this book, because another book about parenting teenagers recommended it. I read most of the book over the course of a…
Apocalypse of St. John by H. B. Swete, part 2
The Apocalypse of St. John: The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes, and Indices. Henry Barclay Swete. London: Macmillan, 1911. 338 pp. plus 220 pp. of introduction. H. B. Swete was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1890-1916. His predecessor…
Apocalypse of St. John by H. B. Swete, part 1
The Apocalypse of St. John: The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes, and Indices. Henry Barclay Swete. London: Macmillan, 1911. 338 pp. plus 220 pp. of introduction. H. B. Swete was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1890-1916. His predecessor…
The Covenant Formula in Revelation 21:7 and Genesis 17:7-8
In a recent post, I wrote about the covenant formula in Revelation 21:3. As I indicated in that post, I became interested in the covenant formula due to my work in Revelation 21. This interest led me to read and…
The Book of Revelation by G. K. Beale
The Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Greek Text. G. K. Beale. New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. 1245 pp. plus 64 pp. of introduction. Introduction to the Unique Strengths and Usefulness of Beale’s Commentary Beale’s…