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Gleanings about focus, distractions, and Paul’s thought about incorporation in the Messiah.

Continued review of Michael Hyatt’s “Free to Focus.” We discuss the three elements of “acting” on what you’ve identified as most important to pursue.

Gleanings about resources for moving from biblical studies to theology and expanded JSTOR access for members of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Gleanings about Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) and fires at the Temple Mount and Notre Dame.

Gleanings about textual criticism.

Gleanings about social media and religion, as well as newly digitized Greek New Testament manuscripts.

Gleanings about English vocabulary and Logos 8.4.

After you stop to discern what’s important, you need to cut out what sidetracks you from focusing on that. Here are three strategies for doing just that.

Gleanings about Jewish Studies and beating distractions to write productively.

Gleanings about persistence and the intermediate state.

Gleanings about focus and the Kurzgefasste Liste.

Gleanings about Logos Bible Software and the Kurzgefasste Liste.

Gleanings from the 2019 Stone-Campbell Journal Conference. Topics include New Testament studies, archaeology, Acts, 1 Corinthians, and Christian education.

This post continues reviewing Michael Hyatt’s book “Free to Focus.” Here we concentrate on Hyatt’s advice about “stopping” to to discern what’s important.

Gleanings about the Nathan-Melech bulla and goal setting.

Gleanings about the theology of Benedict XVI and taking next steps.

Gleanings about moving forward when the next steps look difficult.

Gleanings about persistence, regularity, and a new Greek grammar.

Gleanings about essentialism and Charles Quarles's Matthean theology.

Do you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of tasks? Do you keep your nose to the grindstone and complete to-dos like a machine only to look up and find you’re failing to make the progress you want in the areas or projects that matter most? If so, then you need to read Michael Hyatt’s latest book, Free to Focus ( affiliate disclosure). The volume doesn’t release until tomorrow, 9 April. But the author and Baker Publishing kindly included me in the group that received advance copies. ...

I’ve been posting a couple times a day to different social media channels with helpful links and commentary I’ve found. This is changing (at least for now).

With Zotero, it can be tricky to get proper citations when author names have “Jr.,” “III,” etc. Here’s how to ensure you get their names output correctly.

I’m celebrating Christmas. If you are also, I hope you’ll enjoy those who matter most to you and reflect on the elements of lasting value in the season.

Michele Cushatt, Michael Hyatt, and Greg McKeown discuss “essentialism,” which is about saying “yes” to what matters most.

It can be difficult to select a website host among myriad of available options. I’ve recently moved to DreamHost. Here are a few reasons why.

D. A. Carson, Peter O’Brien, and Mark Seifrid In contrast to Sanders’ emphasis on the essential consistency of Palestinian Judaism’s pattern of religion, the essays in Second Temple Judaism ( affiliate disclosure) emphasize the nomistic diversity, or variegation, that ancient Judaism exhibited. ...

Gabriel Vasquez was a Jesuit theologian from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Vasquez’s commentary on Thomas Aquinas has been made available online.

The Logos Academic Blog has reposted there my essay from January’s issue of Didaktikos on presence in online education. Received wisdom says that presence is harder to achieve online. Physically, this is hardly disputable … but there also seems to be quite a bit more to the question than is often brought out. ...

Google Books has full-text PDFs available for both volumes of Frédéric Godet’s “Première épitre aux Corinthiens.”

Google Books as a combined full-text PDF of K. W. Krüger’s Griechische sprachlehre für Schulen (1861). The two tomes make for a combined PDF of just over 1100 pages.