Sister Encarnación: Well, my favorite color is light tan. My favorite animal is puppies. I like serving the Lord. Hiking, play volleyball…
Nacho: You gotta be kidding me. Everything you just said, is MY favorite thing to do, every day!
From the movie Nacho Libre
I nodded off last night watching The Star of Bethlehem, a DVD proving [...]

As a Bible translator it almost hurts to type that. But it’s true. Bible translation is a means to an end, and it’s not so that everyone can have a Bible. We translate motivated by an evangelical conviction that everyone should be “free indeed” through Jesus. At the Bible college where I teach New Testament [...]

After over a decade of making a living on balloon twisting, I decided to design this website to help rookie balloon twisters who are trying to get into the field of balloon modeling and have no one to teach them the skills necessary to advance as a professional balloon twister.
Source: Balloon Twisting Fun

No matter how [...]

I’ve been chewing on a comment I heard in a sermon on Sunday. The preacher claimed that Jesus by perfectly fulfilling the Law was able to be the perfect sacrifice for our sins. His sinless life is clearly affirmed in the epistles. What is interesting is that the Gospels present quite a different [...]

God knows man. What is doubtful is what man knows God.
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by George Herbert
 

The Scheibe Illusion
 
The course of experience was something as follows : All images at first appeared to [...]

Does faith demand evidence that demands a verdict? The surprising answer from the Gospels is that face to face with a resurrected savior, the disciples still doubted. Those of Jesus’ hometown saw his miracles and scoffed at him. Religious leaders heard the Messiah’s amazing mastery of the the Law and the Prophets and still [...]

Continuing from my post Jesus is unbelievable, I want to look at how different translations have handled Paul’s citation of Habakkuk 2:4 in Romans 1:17.
Here are several translations in English plus two in Portuguese and one in Chichewa. What I want you to notice is whether or not the quote by Paul reflects the wording [...]

Responding to my Stump the Chump challenge, someone emailed me:
When Jesus says that we need to "believe in him" to have life (not a specific reference – but like all the references to belief, vice works), what do we need to believe?

This is a great question and one of those translation problems that has ramifications [...]