Friday, August 2, 2013 at 9:13PM 
Recently updated theological terms:
Thursday, August 1, 2013 at 7:46PM and a little Thankful Thursday, too.
Sitting…on the couch in the living room.
Eating…a piece of rhubarb crunch.
Listening…to my son play the guitar upstairs.
Anticipating…August at Out of the Ordinary. (If it’s before Friday morning when you read this, the link won’t work.)
Thankful…for the beautiful summer. August is the cool-down month here, and fall could come anytime, so I’m savoring the warm days and thanking God for them.
Also thankful…for all the work my sons have, despite the building slow-down. Too much work is better than not enough when you run your own company to support a young family.
Waiting…for the kitchen project to resume. (The full-pay jobs for strangers take precedence over the cut-rate job for mother—and outdoor jobs over indoor.) The new deadline for finishing my kitchen is Christmas. I’ve no cupboards for storing anything, but I do have a sink, dishwasher, stove, and fridge, so I’m surviving. Just don’t expect any gourmet meals to be prepared at my house.
Enjoying… time with children. Wagon rides to the park, picnics in the front yard, and blow-up baby pool swims in the back yard. Outdoor activities with kids make summer what it should be, right?
Noting…all the thunderstorms we’ve had. This is not thunderstorm territory, so it’s unusual. I’m not complaining; I’ve missed good old Minnesota-type summer storms.
Picking…lettuce, broccoli, kale, swiss chard, green onions and peas from the garden. And cherry tomatoes from the potted tomato plants on the deck.
Planning…two painting projects: the first floor bathroom and the entryway. Greeny grey and white in the bathroom, no color chosen for the entry. Have you noticed that the planning and prep for painting takes longer than the painting?
Reading…40 Questions About the End Times by Eckhard Schnabel. Still. It’s embarrassing how long it’s taken for me to get only 60 pages in. I’ve learned something, though: I’m not very interested in things end times.
Also reading…A Grief Sanctified by J. I. Packer. This is more my kind of book: Puritans, Packer, and pain.
Wishing…you a sunny August!
Leaving…for an evening walkabout with the dog.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 8:41PM 
Canon
The last of Michael Kruger’s Ten Basic Facts about the New Testament Canon That Every Christian Should Memorize is this: Early Christians Believed that Canonical Books Were Self-Authenticating. (You’ll find the other nine facts in this series here.)
But seriously, instead of playing around with blog posts, you should just read all of Kruger’s book Canon Revisited.
Inerrancy
What does the term inerrancy mean? John Frame answers:
We should always remember that Scripture is, for the most part, ordinary language rather than technical language. Certainly, it is not of the modern scientific genre. In Scripture, God intends to speak to everybody. To do that most efficiently, he (through the human writers) engages in all the shortcuts that we commonly use among ourselves to facilitate conversation: imprecisions, metaphors, hyperbole, parables, etc. Not all of these convey literal truth, or truth with a precision expected in specialized contexts; but they all convey truth, and in the Bible there is no reason to charge them with error.
(Quoted by Justin Taylor.)
Authority
What does Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 7:12 when he writes, “To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her”? Isn’t all of scripture from the Lord? It depends, writes Dane Ortland, on what you mean by “from the Lord.”
Most broadly, the whole Bible is certainly from “from the Lord” if by “the Lord” we mean the triune God—the 66 books of the Bible are God’s self-testimony to a fallen world of his identity and his mighty deeds in our space-and-time history for the sake of sinners. Every word is a word from God.
But not all of Scripture is “from the Lord” if by “the Lord” we mean the Lord Jesus in his earthly teaching—and it is Jesus that Paul has in mind when he speaks of “the Lord” in 1 Corinthians 7.
(The Gospel Coalition Blog)