Archive for February, 2009:

The need for forgiveness

By Ed Trefzger
Published on February 26, 2009 ( View Comments )

I learned a valuable lesson in forgiveness this week that I really should have known before. A dear brother called Monday night to ask for me to forgive him for a surly attitude he had shown a day earlier. I hadn’t really noticed — nor was I offended — and I told him that he [...]

Win An ESV Study Bible, In Calfskin No Less

By Ed Trefzger
Published on February 26, 2009 ( View Comments )

Over at his blog A Boomer In The Pew, David Porter is giving away a brand new calfskin version of the ESV Study Bible! While there are several good Bible translations, the ESV — English Standard Version — is my all-around favorite because of its faithfulness to the source texts combined with beautiful English prose. [...]

Collaborative Blog: Christ, Our Covenant

By Ed Trefzger
Published on February 24, 2009 ( View Comments )

I’m honored to have been asked to contribute to a new collaborative blog: Christ, Our Covenant. The first posts will capture papers presented at a think tank held in June 2008. I’m scheduled to present on the topic of the Sermon on the Mount this July and this site as well as that will serve [...]

Words mean things, but not always the same things

By Ed Trefzger
Published on February 23, 2009 ( View Comments )

Once again I’m pointing to a post by Bill Mounce, and it’s an important point. I was thinking about this today when Malachi 1:2-3 (and Romans 9:13 quote of it) came up in a discussion, particularly the word translated from the Hebrew and Greek as “hated.” Dr. Mounce writes: A word does not have ‘a’ [...]

Shameless cross-promotion

By Ed Trefzger
Published on February 18, 2009 ( View Comments )

I’ve got some new posts at my other blog, missional+reformed, with thoughts about why it’s not so great to self-consciously appear hip and cool, plus a first mention of some street witnessing last Friday night.

Let there be no filthiness, nor crude blogging

By Ed Trefzger
Published on February 16, 2009 ( View Comments )

In his weekly “Mondays with Mounce” blog, Bill Mounce asks, “Does Ephesians 4:29 apply to blogs?” It’s an excellent question.  I’ve tried to wean myself from reading the comments sections of many blogs because they quickly devolve into shrieky straw-man arguments and caricatures of the other side.  We can expect that in right-vs.-left political blogs, [...]

My outpost on the internet

By Ed Trefzger
Published on February 14, 2009 ( View Comments )

I’ve been intending to start blogging for a couple of years now, and never got around to it. Now I’m starting two blogs at once. This blog, which I’m titling “Of Whom I Am The Foremost,” takes its name from the ESV translation of 1 Timothy 1:15: “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full [...]