Westminster Theological Seminary is blowing the top off iTunesU – a section of the iTunes Store that offers free courses and downloads from institutions of higher education.  If you have not visited their page, you must simply have the  iTunes software installed and click this link.  Westminster has just published David Powlison’s phenomenal course Theology and [...]

Jared Oliphint and Jonathan Brack dropped by the studio to discuss books on apologetics.  We came up with a rudimentary list of books along with a reading order for those who may be interested in Van Tilian apologetics but don’t know where to start.  The full discussion will air on a future episode of the [...]

It is too easy to waste precious time.  Often we sit and click around the web, check our emails or watch too much television.  We are a distracted people. And since many of our readers are pastors and students, it is that much more important that we redeem the time.  I have been interested in [...]

My two favorite hymns happen to be hymns about Christ’s birth and therefore tend only to be sung during the Christmas season.  It’s quite unfortunate, especially since they are extremely beautiful compositions with wonderful lyrics, but this time of year is a special musical treat for me.  The first hymn I’d like to share is [...]

Wired recently posted a story on Daniel Reetz, a grad student who has hacked together a working book scanner for about $300 worth of parts.  I can’t imagine my wife allowing me to have this contraption in our small apartment, but the prospect of digitizing my library is incredibly attractive.  Reetz constructed his book scanner from [...]

For those who have an iPhone or iPod Touch, Nuance Communications has just released Dragon Dictate, a mobile dictation software that uses the same technology behind the popular Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  In my brief testing, I found it to be remarkably capable.  You can use it for note-taking, drafting emails or even for sending Facebook and Twitter [...]

Please tell me you didn’t type out your last bibliography by hand.  If you’re in the business of writing academic papers, handling your sources manually is the equivalent of using a manual typewriter.  Please spare yourself a few weeks and consider Zotero.  Zotero is an extension for Firefox that provides a wonderful database for all [...]

Public prayer is a difficult thing, especially for one who is leading worship.  It takes a lot of work to do it well.  And perhaps the biggest struggle for many is that it also takes a vibrant prayer life at home.  I just bought a copy of The Pastor in Prayer which is a collection [...]

For those interested in reformed biblical theology, these resources will be quite helpful. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery Have you ever read a passage in the prophets and said “I wonder what the significance of ______ is?”  The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery may very well help you with those kinds of questions.  The large tome has [...]