An encouraging word about the way that books minister long after their authors die, and doubly meaningful to me because of my gratitude for Denny Autrey: Letter to Grandfather Prompts Prof’s Visit to Africa.
Author Archives: JMH
An Introduction to Biblical Theology
Saturday night, November 19, I had the privilege of doing an introduction and overview of biblical theology at Providence Baptist Church in Pasadena, TX (Houston area). It was an honor to be at the church pastored by Tommy Dahn, who with Bruce Stoney ordained me to gospel ministry back in January of 2004. You can …
Don’t Miss the New JBMW
Denny Burk gives a great roundup, and the only thing I would add to what I’m about to paste from his post is that Jeremy Pierre is one of my favorite writers: The following is from Denny’s post: ———- The most recent issue of The Journal for Biblical Manhood & Womanhoodis now available for download …
From Abraham to Paul: A Biblical Chronology by Andrew E. Steinmann
As I’ve noted before, Andrew Steinmann has been remarkably prolific in recent years: 2008 – a 600 page commentary on Daniel 2009 – a 700 page commentary on Proverbs 2010 – a 600 page commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah And now this year, 2011, he has brought out a 400 page book on biblical chronology. …
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Do You Want To Master the Biblical Languages?
Here’s some encouragement – it’ll only take 3 hours a day for about 7 years: In his amazing book, The Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell develops a challenge for us all. To become an absolute master at any skill, you must be willing to invest 10,000 hours. I call this the “10,000 rule”. Here’s the bad …
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Watch Your Life and Doctrine
Need proof that liberal theology is not morally neutral? Check out this post. Here’s an excerpt from an evangelical describing his time at Princeton Theological Seminary: My Outsider status became clear to me — if not for the first time, at least in a new way — when I sat with friends on the seminary …
Authenticity Is More Than Clothes and Coffee
In 2 Corinthians 6:1–13, Paul gives evidence of his authenticity, and it has nothing to do with connecting with the Corinthians in cultural terms. In fact, Paul’s authenticity derives from the way that he is going against cultural norms. He proclaims a message that offends cultural sensibilities as it points away from worldly advantages to …
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The Two Exiles: From Eden and Land
Reviewing Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor’s Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible, Daniel C. Timmer writes: The Judean exile to Babylon was an event of the highest importance for nearly every biblical book that touches upon it. But the biblical witness is not monochromatic: Jeremiah and Chronicles see the exile as having a …
Derouchie’s Call to Covenant Love
Congratulations to Jason Derouchie on the good review of his book, A Call to Covenant Love: Text Grammar and Literary Structure in Deuteronomy 5–11 in the latest Themelios.
Carl Trueman Signs Off at Themelios
I share D. A. Carson’s admiration and appreciation of Carl Trueman, which Carson expresses at the end of his Themelios editorial published today: Long-time readers of Themelios will remember that the final years of the paper version of this journal were among its best. Carl Trueman was then Themelios’s capable editor. When the journal became …
Jonathan Edwards as a Missionary
Insightful article by Jonathan Gibson in the latest issue of Themelios, looking at how Edwards viewed his mission to the American Indians, how he adapted his preaching to the new context, and how he pursued “social justice”!
In Houston November 19–20
Lord willing, next weekend (November 19–20) will find us in Houston, TX at Providence Baptist Church. We were blessed to be members at Providence during our time in Houston, and though we didn’t grow up there getting to go back feels a little like going home. If you’re in the Houston area, it would be …
Wallace–Ehrman Debate DVD
This is nicely done trailer: From the CSNTM site: On October 1, 2011 Dr. Bart D. Ehrman and CSNTM’s Executive Director, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, debated the reliability of the text of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University. This was the largest debate over the text of the New Testament in history. A professional …
Jeremiah 7: Indictment of Unrepentant Israel (with some temple typology)
As I indicated in a previous post, it seems that Jeremiah 1:18–19 and Jeremiah 6:27–30 are bracketing Jeremiah 2–6 as a unit in which there is a progression from Israel’s sin to Israel’s rejection for their refusal to repent. This would place Jeremiah 7 at a strategic juncture introducing the next section of the book …
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Jeremiah 6: Refined in Vain and Rejected
Adolph Schlatter said of Friedrich Nietzsche: The chief impression that I internalized from his lectures arose from his offensive haughtiness. He treated his listeners like despicable peons. He convinced me of the principle that to throw out love is to despoil the business of teaching—only genuine love can really educate.[1] Nietzsche believed in the superman, …
Chesterton on the Battle of Armageddon
G. K. Chesterton writes in Orthodoxy: I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother’s knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The …
Panel Discussion from @SBTS Chapel Today: Is a Historical Adam Necessary?
Jeremiah 5: The Refusal to Repent
In an earlier post I suggested some ways to determine how Jeremiah has structured his message: repeated words and phrases, changes in content or theme, and changes in point of view (for instance, from first person to second or third) are all indicators of turning points in Jeremiah’s presentation. In Jeremiah 5 it seems to …
Did the Biblical Authors Picture the Earth as a Flat Disk and the Sky as a Solid Dome?
Peter Enns assumes there was a dominant world-picture or cosmology in the ancient Near East, and Paul Seely published several articles advocating the idea that the earth is a flat disk and the sky a solid dome in Westminster Theological Journal. In a comment on an earlier post, Steve Hays has drawn attention to an …
Three Objections Enns Makes to Mohler: Apparant Age, Authority, and World-Picture
Al Mohler rejects the truth claims of a religion that Peter Enns is trying to syncretize with Christianity, and in two posts Enns makes three objections. First, objecting to the idea that the earth was created with apparent age, Enns writes: “Apparent age” is an arbitrary claim that makes the “facts fit the theory.” Look …
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