Here’s a short video a cool thing going down in East Atlanta. The Bench Monster. I love this kind of stuff.

What can you celebrate in your city?
(HT: Koinonia)

I’ve recently started writing an exegetical paper on 2 Corinthians 5:1-10, and have become intrigued with David Garland’s interpretation of verse 1 in his NAC commentary. The verse is as follows:

“For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.”

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Here are the words for week 4:
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Here is this week’s list:
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τὸ γὰρ γράμμα ἀποκτέννει,
τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα ζῳοποιεῖ

For the letter kills,
but the spirit causes to live.
-2 Corinthians 3:6

The verse quoted above has been the rally-call of Christians against the dangers of legalism- but is this what Paul actually means? I wrote an earlier entry reflecting on Paul’s descriptions of the old and new covenants, and why it is that he says the “ministry of death” is “glorious” (v. 7), where I stated that the Old Covenant is glorious because it brings conviction of sin. I think that verse 6, far from being an abstraction against legalism, simply states this same idea. In this post, I will try and show that meaning from this text.
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Katagraphais has now been featured two months in a row for the Biblioblogs Carnival. Last month, thanks to a nice word from James, John Hobbins of Ancient Hebrew Poetry featured my translation of Philemon. This month, Michael W. Halcomb of pisteuomen has featured my translation of 2 Corinthians 1:15-24. I must say, I am really surprised that I made it the first time, let alone twice. Of course, when Michael features 150 bloggers, I think I had a better chance of making it than not haha. The only problem with all of this is that means more people might read this blog, which means I need to actually put effort into this thing now.

Thanks guys.