Showing posts with label Errata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Errata. Show all posts

Monday, July 5, 2010

Fighting Against Unbelief - Version 0.5 & Errata

Here's the link to the E-Resource I've created to help us fight unbelief.

Your input is valued. I want to emphasize my deep indebtedness to both Dan Fuller and John Piper on this resource. I plan on developing it further in the future, but the work may seem very similar to theirs at this point in time. Credit and honor is due to them for their pioneering work.

Also - yesterday in the message I think I mentioned that Saul was removed from his throne because he refused to wait for Samuel to come and make the sacrifice at Gilgal. I think my words were accurate, but I realized in my Bible reading this morning that I might have combined two accounts - one in 1 Samuel 13:8-14 and one in 1 Chronicles 10:13-14. Sorry for any confusion.

May God guide and encourage as you chip away at Unbelief,
Keith

Monday, July 20, 2009

A Warning to All Teachers - Fact Check! [Errata]

I made another mistake... I'm sure it won't be my last!

As I was preparing my message on John 9, I specifically intended to avoid mentioning the hymn line "was blind but now I see." Of course, I was in the thick of the message and the gravity of the idea drew me right in...

So, I quoted the hymn 'Amazing Grace', told the story of the famous hymn writer Isaac Watts, who wrote 700 hymns, and just celebrated his 335 birthday. I told about how he'd been the captain of a slave ship... and so on... but there's only one problem: John Newton wrote that hymn.

So here's the lesson: Check your facts, avoid convenient illustrations (especially if you intend to avoid them in the first place), and if you are going to read 'tweets', make sure you really read them (I figured out where I went awry!), so you won't say Isaac Watts turned 700 and attribute the wrong hymns to him.

Thanks for those who encourage me to study by pointing out my obvious errors. You help me in ways you cannot imagine!