My sister sent me this email about a friend of ours I haven’t seen in a long long time. They started an organization called I Choose Hope after their daughter was killed. Here is an announcement I would encourage you to watch:
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Parents Won’t Want to Read This but Should
God help us. This is a sobering post by Mary Kozakiewicz on the Covenant Eyes blog, “My Daughter Was Caught by a Predator: A Word of Warning from One Parent to Another.” Reader discretion advised. This is a broken and dangerous world. I’m thankful for Proverbs 23:10–11, which teaches that the defender of the fatherless …
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Almost Heaven, West Virginia
We’ll be singing along with John Denver as we drive to West Virginia on Friday: I’ll be teaching Genesis through Esther at Randolph Street Baptist Church in Charleston, WV, on Friday and Saturday, preaching there Sunday morning. You can find more info on this page. Would love to see you there.
@DennyBurk Interview on Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches
My dear friend and fellow pastor Denny Burk blessed me with a blog interview on Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches. Here are the questions: What is the main point of Revelation? What is the genre? If much of the prophecy in Revelation symbolizes early Christian conflict with Rome, then why not …
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Another Reason To Be Premillennial
So I’m sitting in church on New Year’s Day and my friend C. T. Eldridge gets up to do the New Testament reading. The reading is Revelation 15, and these words jumped out at me: “Then I saw another sign in heaven . . . And I saw what appeared to be a sea of …
@CrosswayBooks Interview on Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches
Since the questions are somewhat controversial, and since my answers are not necessarily textbook, I’d be interested in your reaction to what I say in this interview on the Crossway blog. Here are the questions: Why should pastors preach on Revelation? What’s the best way to prepare to interpret apocalyptic literature in general and …
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The First Copy of Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches
Hearty thanks to Crossway for over-nighting a copy of my book, Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches! This one is dedicated to my sons (baby girl came along after it was completed), and the inscription goes like this: For Jake, Jed, and Luke May the High King on the white horse capture your imagination …
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Tom Nettles on Learning from Slaveholders
Trevin Wax’s post today on the Desiring God blog reminded me of this interview with Tom Nettles where he addresses the question. Here’s the exchange: How would you respond to someone who said he would never read your book for the simple fact that James P. Boyce was from the South and owned slaves? I …
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(fake) Cormac McCarthy Reviews the Apple Store
Thanks to Josh Philpot for the link to this thought provoking imitation of the prose-style of Cormac McCarthy: Union Square – San Francisco, CA Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM Two stars. Given the way my uncle died havin a drink directly after his funeral just didnt seem right so I …
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A Biblical Theology of Gender in Chicago
If you’re in the Chicago-land area I’d love to see you on February 25, 2012 at the Iron Sharpens Iron conference. Kenny Luck and Voddie Baucham are the keynote speakers, and I’ll be doing a seminar on “A Biblical Theology of Gender.” Details on this page. May God help us to man-up and be Christlike.
My Thoughts on Beale’s NT Biblical Theology
I’ve been asked several times now what I think of G. K. Beale’s massive New Testament Biblical Theology. I’ve mentioned repeatedly how much I’ve learned from Beale. It was a comment Tom Schreiner made in a seminar that first drove me to a Beale article that set me trying to understand how the NT authors …
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Dan Phillips Interviews Just Another Nobody
Here’s one of the exchanges: How was the reception? It is so encouraging to teach people who have experienced Psalm 19:9-10, “the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.” God’s people love …
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What Higher Priv’lege Could I Have?
What higher priv’lege could I have, Than loving you as Christ the church? A nobler charge I could not ask, So far beyond my just deserts. Is there a greater task than this: To nourish you as one with me? No tale in life more epic is, No song more challenging to sing. How could …
Human Kindness at United Airlines
From December 2–19 I had the opportunity to teach Genesis–Esther to people training for ministry in the Far East. While I was there I bought a wooden sword as a toy for my sons. It was longer than any of the suitcases the three of us had, so I was a little anxious about how …
She Wields Her Weapons Too
I got to see the battle-front, She stayed to fight at home. The enemy I saw at work, She didn’t get to roam. I smelt the smoke and saw the flames, She took care of our kids. The fray I joined with the s-word of God, Some more homeschool she did. I got to see …
Stands No Chance the Night
Into a land of darkness Where the light not legal is, We will go to sing the song Of how the soul may live. This is a land where evil men Forbid the truth be known, Though illegal, we will go, God’s glory must be shown. Doubt not the truth that in the end The …
The Authorial Agony of Charles Dickens
My friend Scott Corbin sent me this poignant excert from Clair Tomalin’s Charles Dickens: A Life, 113-114: “These were all distractions from the central business of the year, which was the story that had started as a few episodes and was being made into a novel, week by week, The Old Curiosity Shop. Against all …
Hope and Change and the Promises of God
What hath Whittaker Chambers to do with “Hope and Change”? What hath communism and secular liberalism to do with the promises of God in the Bible? What do racial equality and diversity, environmentalism, peace in our time, provision for all, the hope of socialism, the goals of liberalism, and the aims of all politicians have …
Jeremiah 8:4–9:26, Understand and Know the Lord
“Thus says the LORD: ‘Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, …
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Beautiful Words about the Baby in the Basket
Eric Schumacher has a good biblical-theological piece of fiction here: Centuries after Moses died, after Joshua brought the people into the land, after the rise of King David and King Solomon, after the divide of the kingdom into Israel and Judah—the people of Israel have been carried off into exile, where they are worked as …
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