Marriage Retreat, May 2012, Huanipaca, Peru

Great summaries of what Scripture is...

Between this great article: http://christianthinktank.com/nextseat.html

and this chapter: "Scripture’s Self-Attestation and the Problem of Formulating a Doctrine of Scripture" by Wayne A. Grudem, in the book Scripture and Truth, edited by D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1992), 

there is a great defense of not only the Christian faith, but also of the absolute stunning reality that authoritative and accurate writings/words have arrived from the Creator himself.

Please pray as I translate these and use them here--in my missions class, as well as with a number of pastors!

Personal OPINION on certain recently-read books

REALLY good books:

Hermeneutics: An Introduction (Anthony Thiselton)

Truth Decay (Douglas Groothuis)

How Wide the Divide? (Craig Blomberg and Stephen Robinson)

The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor (John Piper and D.A. Carson)

Burned Over: The Religious Upheaval that Shaped America (Jack Kelly)

The Marathoners (Hal Higdon)

The UltraMarathon Man (Dean Karnazes)

Books that had some positives, but also some negatives:

Bridging the Divide (Robert Millet and Gregory Johnson)

Mormon Officials and Christian Scholars Compare Doctrines (John Ankerberg)

Not great books, but not bad:

The Mormon Defenders (James Patrick Holding)

Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Jan Shipps)

Not-so-good books:

Are Mormons Christians? (Stephen Robinson)

The Great Apostasy (James Talmage)

Yearly Trip to Arequipa

Great trip! On the way there (14 hours in the car), we came upon the start of the world-famous Dakar rally. We loved it! Upon arrival, we saw beautiful mountains as usual. We traversed many challenging roads, and even saw dolphins and seals on the way home! Teaching “Intro to Greek” in a week-intensive course was very rewarding…

¡Diez Años!

10 years ago yesterday we arrived in Peru!

Thanks Lord, for the privilege of serving here...