I try to answer that question in a guest post over at the Sharefaith blog.
Author Archives: JMH
Jason D. Mirikitani, Mile Marker 825
In this picture you see me and my friend Jason Mirikitani running the White Rock Marathon in Dallas, TX back in 1997. He looks happy and strong, and I’m suffering to finish! That brother carried be through that day. He stayed by me when he could have gone on ahead, finished the race, and gotten …
Andy and Charles Naselli Review Three Books on Politics
I appreciate and resonate with the Naselli father and son’s review of these books by Grudem, Trueman, and Gerson and Wehner. Update: More info on Andy’s blog.
Review of Yarbrough’s 1-3 John
1–3 John. BECNT. By Robert W. Yarbrough. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008. xx +434pp. $39.99. Published in The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 14.3 (2010), 98–99. Robert W. Yarbrough and Robert H. Stein are the editors of the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, and they have now each contributed stellar volumes to the series. …
Championship!
The other night the Faculty-Staff Basketball team squared off against a team of SBTS students for all the marbles in the Intramural Basketball championship. We (the Faculty-Staff team) jumped out to an early lead, but soon lost that and by half-time we were down by 20 points. We clawed our way back into the game …
Loeb Classical Library Volumes Free Online
Rod Decker writes: Here’s a site I ran across today that looks very useful. It lists all the Loeb Classical volumes in Greek that are available online for free. It’s a surprisingly long list. Enjoy!
Publications of Emanuel Tov
Tommy Wasserman points to an important resource: Emanuel Tov has graciously made available a large number of his publications on his website here, including his two volumes on Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Judean Desert. Congratulations! Those interested in OT Text Criticism will want to access this material.
Video for God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment
(If you’re looking at this post on a reader, you may have to click through to see the video) Hearty thanks to William Wallace for his work on this. Shipping soon from Amazon.
Completion!
A FedEx Truck just left this copy of God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology on our front doorstep. Praise the Lord! May his favor be upon us, and may he confirm the work of our hands (Ps 90:17). Some time back I thought through the timeline on this project. It’s a joy …
In Houston This Weekend
Lord willing, I’ll be at Bethel Church Houston (formerly Bethel Independent Presbyterian Church) this Sunday, November 7, 2010. I’ll be preaching from Revelation 5 in their two morning services, and then at 5pm leading a Sunday Night Seminar on “God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology.” If you’re in the Houston area, it …
W Conference at SBTS
Conference Info: The W Conference: Simplifying Womanhood in a Complicated World November 19-20 at Southern Seminary Worship Leaders: Mary Kassian and Heather Payne Breakouts on multicultural relationships, girl-girl relationships, girl-boy relationships, balancing, time management, wise spending, spiritual fitness, God’s call, and the P31 wife. Learn to minister to young women! Bring young women! Learn to …
Andy Naselli on Organizing Your Library
I love Zotero. If you write essays, articles, papers, or books, you’ll want to know about this program. Andy Naselli taught me how to use it, and now he has written a piece that will help you, too. This is a must read. On his site he’s posted an overview of an article that is …
The Journal of Family Ministry (re) Launches at SBTS
Under the leadership of the prolific Timothy Paul Jones, the Gheens Center for Christian Family Ministry has re-launched The Journal of Family Ministry. The editorial introducing the new journal recounts in miniature the remarkable changes that have happened at SBTS since the late 1980s. If you’re thinking about ministering to youth and families, you’ll want …
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“The Mystery of Marriage” from For the Fame of God’s Name
Praise God for marriage! What gift can be compared to this one? Who but God could have come up with something so good? Crossway has kindly granted permission for me to post my essay from the Piper Festschrift: James M. Hamilton Jr., “The Mystery of Marriage,” pages 253-71 in For the Fame of God’s Name: …
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Crossway Publishes For the Fame of God’s Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper
I join the chorus of gratitude to God for the ministry of John Piper. I could tell many anecdotes about how Denny Burk and I used to quote snippets of his sermons to each other, about how powerfully the Lord used a Piper sermon when I didn’t know how to argue against open theism, about …
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Christianity Today’s Piece on Dr. Mohler: Not Liberal Enough
Carl F. H. Henry was instrumental in the start of Christianity Today, and now the magazine has published a cover story on a major proponent of that theological heritage. Molly Worthen’s “The Reformer” deals with R. Albert Mohler Jr., who perhaps more than anyone else today carries the Henry torch. It’s clear from the piece …
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On Re-Reading Homer’s Iliad
Homer’s noble high-born lords Think mainly of themselves, Lasting words and shining swords, Through flesh and soul they delve. Yet the highest truths we have He does not seem to know: For sinful guilt he gives no salve; No peace with God does show. Reading him, one must ask why There’s good in his wide …
Fred Zaspel on The Theology of Warfield
I’m really excited to see this new book from Fred Zaspel, The Theology of B. B. Warfield: A Systematic Summary. It gives me another nudge to read Warfield himself, which I’m eager to do. So many books . . . Justin Taylor interviewed Zaspell on the book here. And the Crossway blog has a link …
HCSB Study Bible
The English language is blessed to have a variety of good translations of the Bible, and I think it’s good that in these translations we have something of a spectrum that moves from readability on one end to literalness on the other. As I think about it, the most literal translation is still the New …
Imagination Captured!
I noted recently that my sons and I enjoyed the first two books of Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga. We’re praying that God will bless him as he writes book 3, and that he’ll hurry up and finish so we can read it! Anyway, the other day my 6 year old brought me this sketch of …