Well, not really. But, I am wanting your opinion on what books from Old and New Testament you’d like to see me blog through (something I’m trying to do this year). I’ve narrowed it down to a few for you to choose from. Feel free to bemoan the books left out in the comments if you wish.
UPDATE:
And the winners are: Isaiah and Hebrews. Thanks for voting.
You left out Ezekiel.
I agree–do Ezekiel. He’s the beginning of canonical Apocalyptic.
Ezekiel! Also he was in Pulp Fiction (sort of) and has a skateboard clothing line.
Seriously though, I came here for the NT, I think you should do Luke-Acts as a corrective to Driscoll preaching on Luke. ;)
I’m excited to see Isaiah in the lead. Yay!
F*** Driscoll. How’s a corrective on this blog going to put a dent in his corrupting influence on his flock? Just sayin’.
It makes me feel better though.
There’s more than one way to provide a corrective. If you consider that Driscoll has never preached from the Psalms once in a decade that might be reason to tackle the Psalms. Of course that might have everything to do with my vote on the OT poll and nothing much to do with Driscoll. ;-)
Please, anything but the Psalms.
Both my picks won! Now I have reason to check my blogger “dashboard” for updates from you even more often than I do….that seems healthy, ha!
On a serious note, do you have any idea how you are going to approach studying these two books?
Out of curiosity, dan, why anything but the psalms? I’ve been reading John Donne sermons on them in the last year or so and those have been good so I’ll admit to a bias reading one of my favorite poet/preachers.
I asked a certain pastor about resources for studying Isaiah and never got any reply so ironically blogging on Isaiah may be corrective in itself.
Hey WTH,
Personal preference, I guess. Apart from a very few important exceptions, reading the Psalms is almost as dull for me as reading the OT lists of whom begat whom. I’ve tried to get into them on a number of occasions and have even tried to read highly rated books on the Psalms by authors I respect (like Brueggemann’s The Message of the Psalms) but nothing has been able to whet my interest.
I guess it might be the genre. I’ve read a lot of different poets and, after all that, have only been able to find one I consistently enjoyed (Rilke… and I enjoyed his writing a lot). All the others have the odd rare gem but most of the time do nothing for me.