Category: Updates

The Grace Commentary continues to get bigger and better every week. A year ago, I showed you a picture of our progress that looked like the graph below on the left. On the right is an updated version of that graph: These graphs capture the considerable progress that has been made on the Grace Commentary.…… Continue reading An Updated Picture of our Progress (and a New Car!)

Exactly one year ago I started writing Ephesians for publication. I thought you might like a picture of what’s happened since: As you can see, I work on multiple New Testament books at once. This year I have been working on five books: Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. Each book goes through several stages…… Continue reading A year in the life of the Grace Commentary

I have said that the Grace Commentary is the world’s first grace-based commentary, but is it true? In my 40+ years of reading Bible commentaries and study Bibles, I have found: countless commentaries that preach law many commentaries that mix grace with law no grace-based commentaries Which is why we need one. With 10,000+ entries,…… Continue reading How Many Grace-Based Commentaries Are There?

Two bits of news that may interest you: First, I have made an explainer video. You might not think the Grace Commentary needs one, but apparently it does and here it is (turn the sound on): https://vimeo.com/936060103?share=copy Feel free to share the video or play it at church/your small group/your ultra-legalistic pastors’ fraternal (if you…… Continue reading Two New Things

Every year on our kids’ birthdays, we back them up against the door frame and measure their heights. This week we are celebrating the third anniversary of the Grace Commentary. It’s time to get out the tape measure. After three years of progress, the Grace Commentary looks something like this: 10,000+ entries covering 3,500+ New…… Continue reading Three Years Old and Growing Fast

My wife Camilla deserves a medal. She has just completed the single biggest upload of new material ever – 1000 new Grace Commentary entries! Writing Bible commentary (my job) is laborious, but uploading new material to the website (Camilla’s job) is something else altogether. It’s not just the uploading. There’s the formatting, the creation of…… Continue reading 1000 New Entries!

Is the Grace Commentary nearly complete? Halfway done or mostly done? Or is there still a long way to go? Just for fun, I asked Grace Commentary readers to estimate how complete the Grace Commentary is. The responses from readers were astonishing. Answers ranged from 2 percent complete to 100 percent. That’s quite a range.…… Continue reading How Complete is the Grace Commentary?

Here is a snapshot of the progress we’ve made on the Grace Commentary in the past two and a half years… Depending on how you look at it, this graph is either pleasing (look how much we’ve done) or disappointing (look how much remains to be done). I have both feelings, but mostly I am…… Continue reading A Picture of Our Progress

Writing a Bible commentary is like building a big house out of bricks. Lego bricks. These days I’m spending about 40 hours a week working on the commentary, and I consider myself blessed to have that sort of time. Pastors don’t have that kind of time. Nor do school teachers or truck drivers. But thanks…… Continue reading 600 New Entries

Hi friends, Writing a Bible commentary is like building a car. It’s not something you do in a day. When I began working on the Grace Commentary two and a bit years ago, I had two options. I could write the whole thing and then publish it, or I could write bits and pieces and…… Continue reading Quality vs Quantity