I really enjoyed Bryan Litfin’s novel, The Sword, and Eric Schumacher brought to my attention that right now it’s free on Kindle. Enjoy!
Author Archives: JMH
What Is Fiction About?
John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, 14: “The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”
Uzzah and Michal, David and Jesus: 2 Samuel 6
It was my privilege to preach at SBTS chapel this morning. You can watch here or below or download here. May the Lord bless his word.
Wes Pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church This Sunday
This Sunday Kenwood Baptist Church will enjoy the ministry of the Word from Wes Pastor, who has nearly 20 years of church-planting and pastoral experience. In 1992 he launched Christ Memorial Church, now the largest Baptist church in Vermont, where he remains as senior minister. In 2000 he started the NETS Institute for Church Planting, …
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Great Books Make Great Readers and Writers
“It rarely happens, if it happens at all, that a writer can achieve effects much larger than the effects achieved in books he has read and admired. Human beings, like chimpanzees, can do very little without models.” John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers (11).
OT Prayers Appealing to God’s Concern for His Own Glory
As I mentioned before, there are 77 tables in God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, and I have permission from Crossway to make five of them available here for free. Each will be available for about 48 hours. The one linked in this post (cataloging prayers in the Old Testament that appeal to …
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Free Class with Bruce Ware and Andy Naselli
The good Greg Dietrich has all the details on a free class at Northland International University: “free to all new students who want to check out their Doctor of Ministry or Master of Ministry program.” Andy Naselli provides some bullet points that include an overview of the course schedule. It would be worth the trip …
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To the Jew First and Also the Gentile
On Sunday, March 20, 2011, it was my privilege to preach Mark 7:1–37, “To the Jew First and Also the Gentile,” at Kenwood Baptist Church. At the exodus from Egypt Moses led Israel through the Red Sea into the wilderness where they immediately needed water and food. The Lord provided bread from heaven and water …
God Is Known Among His People (Psalm 76)
My brother in law sent me the lyrics to this hymn last night. He said it sings God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment. I have to agree. Hear the tune here, and a version with a chorus added is here. God is known among His people, Every mouth His praises fill; From of old He …
Piper’s “Jesus: The Only Way to God” Free from ChristianAudio.com
Through March 31, 2011, ChristianAudio.com is giving away John Piper’s Jesus: The Only Way to God. Get it here.
9Marks Regional Workshop in Wheeling, WV
If you’re in the area, or if you’re looking to get away for some refreshing time in the word with some co-laborers in the Gospel, it would be a joy to see you April 8–9, 2011 at the 9Marks Regional Workship in Wheeling, West Virginia, at First Baptist Church of Wheeling. Details on the Location, …
The Trick Is to Find Them
“However bad university professors may be in general, every great professor is a man or woman devoted to truth, and every university has at least one or two of them around.” –John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers, 11.
Recommended Book: The Flames of Rome by Paul Maier
On the strength of recommendations from Justin Taylor and Andy Naselli, I bought and read Paul Maier’s novel The Flames of Rome, and now I’m adding my voice to the chorus of recommendations for this book. Maier begins in the reign of Claudius and takes his reader to the end of the reign of Nero …
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John Gardner on The Art of Fiction
At my friend Brian’s recommendation, I read John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers. The book is about writing fiction, but what Gardner says can be applied to the writing of anything from a blog post to a scholarly article to a non-fiction book or even to a sermon. William …
Yahweh’s Intent to Make Himself Known: Limited Time Offer
The kind folks at Crossway have agreed to allow me to give you, dear reader of this blog, a set of gifts, each of which will be available for a limited time. There are 77 tables in God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, and I have permission to make five of them available …
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The Difference Between Jesus and Herod
On Sunday, March 13, it was my privilege to preach Mark 6:1–56, “The Difference Between Jesus and Herod,” at Kenwood Baptist Church. It was daylight savings time spring forward Sunday (a pox on the time change). The combination of the time change and my sister’s family being in town made for an exciting morning on …
Domesticated
Anthony O’Hear (in The Great Books, 2) notes: “. . . the Plato studied by philosophers of today is a Plato who is almost a colleague or contemporary of ours, with our mentality. The fact that all his thought is framed in a mystical myth of the transmigration of souls between this world and another …
Beale the Balsam Tree
I had the privilege of introducing G. K. Beale at his first Gheens lecture here at SBTS today. It was an opportunity for me to heed 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13, and I want to take the opportunity to give thanks to God for Dr. Beale’s ministry by posting my words of introduction here as well: G. …
Zotero for your MDiv, DMin, or PhD
I’m sitting here grading a paper, and there are problems with the footnotes. All these problems can be easily resolved through the use of a fast, free (open-source) bibliographic management program called Zotero. Andy Naselli introduced me to Zotero, and it is phenomenal. Once you install the program, you can go to worldcat.org, look up …
Ten Thousand, by John Mark McMillan
Josh Philpot introduced me to this song by John Mark McMillan, “Ten Thousand,” from his album, The Medicine. Matt Damico sang this at the close of the sermon linked in the previous post. He knocked it out of the park. This is what Josh wrote to Matt when he introduced him to the song: “It’s …