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Your God Is Too SmallIn Your God Is Too Small, J. B. Phillips explains that the trouble facing many of us today is that we have not found a God big enough for our modern...Read More
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Memphis Commercial Appeal, November 5, 2011
...more than at first envisioned. It stands on the shoulders of earlier dynamic translations which I have enjoyed, J.B. Phillips' "The New Testament in Modern English" and "Good News for Modern Man." Micah Greenstein Temple Israel The translation of the Old...
Joplin Globe, August 7, 2011
...parables of Jesus. Years ago, when I published a commentary on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, I used J.B. Phillips’ translation of the New Testament, because it was almost shockingly fresh and straightforward compared to the poetic King James version....
Crosswalk, March 5, 2012
...immobilized for weeks at a time by depression. Soren Kierkegaard, influential nineteenth century writer, suffered chronic depression. And J.B. Phillips sank into a debilitating depression after the popular success of his paraphrase of the New Testament....
Ministry Today, February 19, 2012
...used a good Baptist phrase in his translation: "Extend to one another the hand of fellowship." And J.B. Phillips, a proper Anglican, gave it a British twist: "A handshake all around, please!" The Bible translators were tracking the culture, rather than...
Victoria Advocate, February 3, 2012
...Or, saying it's not yet your time, you must go back, followed by feelings of extreme disappointment. J.B. Phillips, the English Bible scholar had an out-of-body experience. After he rose above the room, he found himself traveling down a path strewn with...
One Place.com, January 29, 2012
...we see in Him which many would argue are attributes more readily found in women than in men. J.B. Phillips once wrote a book called “Your God is Too Small”. I truly think that our view of God is all too often all too small. Thinking through the...
The Fellowship Room, September 28, 2011
...loose, too much, in my mind, to be useful. A much better paraphrase is the 1962 edition of J.B. Phillips translation. It’s online. • The Willow Creek association will host several leadership summits around Brazil this year. The Itu Church of Christ...
Better Bibles Blog, June 27, 2011
...Jerome, Wycliffe, Erasmus, Luther, and Tyndale about the value of translating the Bible, or more contemporary figures like J.B. Phillips, Andrew Walls or Lamin Sanneh.I will first explain my qualifications to discuss topics like lingua francas and...
