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Our lenses are three. We need them all. If we hope to see Wide and far and small.
But, no! There are four. Insight leads to reflection. [...]

Congrats to Chaka who solved the riddle I posed yesterday.
Here’s the riddle:
Who is Sissy Gus? Or Susie Goose? Or is it Sudzy? Or maybe Sidzy? Gus may be a sissy but he’s no Susie. [...]

Aye, I was a notorious software pirate in high school. No software was safe on the school’s computers. But after bein’ banned for life from the computer lab and also undergoin’ a spiritual con’ersion t’ Christianity Me left behind my eye patch and peg leg and became annoyin’ly legalistic on the subject o’ software [...]

Image source: Aqui se habla Griega— muy poquitisimo (HT Mike)
Each year before school starts in the fall, I like to post a little help for the poor suckers that are going to start “learning” New Testament Greek at the thousands of Bible colleges, universities and seminaries scattered around the globe.
Things to understand:

Your prof memorized [...]

Here are some places to get started:
Tripping on the Trinity has a pseudo-choral rendition of 2 Corinthians 13:13.
Grasshopper Greek: Apocalyptic Rock has Revelation 4:11 set to a rock beat. Check out the comments about “worthy is the barber.”
Sing The Greek Alphabet Song is just what it says. Two different versions: one by all my kids [...]

Back in September 2007, I published a couple of impromptu recordings of my kids singing the Greek alphabet to the tune of Sarasponda. That post continues to get an amazing number of visits. Personally, I wouldn’t imagine that there is so much interest in learning the Greek alphabet. But as you can see from the [...]

This month I begin teaching a course on the Pauline epistles. My students are undergraduate Mozambicans with only the slightest amount of Bible knowledge and very shaky analytical skills. African cultures are, by and large, oral, so their approach to a written text tends to be very literal, very focused on the text at hand [...]

Is it possible for a regular Joe like me to learn how to read the Bible in the original Hebrew? I’ve got a job. I’m raising a family. I have a few hobbies. Life is pretty busy. So, should I attempt to learn Hebrew well enough to pick up the Bible and read it in [...]

Here’s a little help for the poor students in Professor Alison Laywine PHIL 354 Plato class who will fail unless they memorize the Greek alphabet. (HT: Scott Carson via Pseudo-Polymath)
My kids sing it: Sing The Greek Alphabet Song
Papua New Guinean Bible translators do too: Singing Greek Prayers for Greek Learning
John Hobbins says kids can do it: Language [...]

About five years ago when I was taking the infamous Greek seminary course, Hilary did a brilliant arrangement of the Greek alphabet to the tune of “Sarasponda.” Ever since then that song has been a part of our family repertoire. Recently I’ve been working on a hip hop version of that song but I thought [...]

Today I discovered that someone used the Three Lenses (No, four!) in their discipleship class. They have a nice summary of the four lenses: 
Equipping The Saints: How to Read: Session I Summary
I continue to ponder that fourth lens. How can we look at the Scriptures and allow it to reveal our true nature?
James said it best:
Obey God’s message! [...]

Most Greek study is silent and boring. Wouldn’t it be great if we had recordings of Greek that were cool enough to listen to on your mp3?
I’m not going to make any claims to coolness here but I’ve recorded a rock demo of Rev. 4:11 in Greek. Maybe it will inspire others to jazz up the [...]