That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
Professor Thomas J. Nettles is one of my favorite historians. It was a joy to audit a course he taught on Baptist history, and I profit much from his writings. Last summer he published a biography of James Petigru Boyce, founder of Southern Seminary, where it is our privilege to teach. If you haven’t already …
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If you’re looking for encouragement to buy God’s Indwelling Presence, you can find some here. Thanks to Clint Armani and Jeff Humphries for alerting me to the discussion, and thanks to the commenters on the thread for their kind words! Buy it on Logos. Buy it on Amazon.
For your Saturday listening pleasure, a little perspective from Ross King:
I learned today that Southern Seminary has channels on Youtube and Vimeo. Check them out.
I’m eager to read or listen to Peter Lillback’s new book, George Washington’s Sacred Fire, but until someone gets it for me from my wishlist (not so subtle hint!), my next move is going to be to listen to this free lecture touted by Doug Wilson. Peter A. Lillback is the President of Westminster Theological …
The next issue of The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 14.1 (2010) is soon to be released. The issue is on eschatology, and you can see the Table of Contents here. SBJT has generously made available what looks to be the most important essay in this issue: Peter J. Gentry, “Daniel’s Seventy Weeks and the …
David Instone-Brewer at Tyndale House has a great roundup of Electronic helps for Bible Study, several of which are freely available online. Check it out.
Cornelis Bennema teaches at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies. His new book from Paternoster is entitled, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John. Here are some blurbs on Encountering Jesus: ‘This is a book I have been waiting for – a comprehensive, sophisticated analysis of the characters in the Gospel …
My friend Noel Rabinowitz has an interesting summary of recent political developments related to Israel and Jerusalem: Resetting the Middle East History Button.
Thanks to Gorgias Press and to the editors of The Sacred Text, the Michaels Bird and Pahl, for permission to post my essay from the volume here: “Still Sola Scriptura: An Evangelical View of Scripture,” pages 215–40 in The Sacred Text: Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures, …
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What a story!
Pastor Pants brought this to my attention in a comment on an earlier post.
This looks like a great conference put on by the Andrew Fuller Center at SBTS: Baptists and the Cross. Date: August 30-31, 2010. Speakers: Akin, Bebbington, Schreiner, Dowling, Fuller, Thompson, Wellum. Discounted rates. Here’s a brief podcast on it with the director of the Andrew Fuller Center, Michael Haykin. A brief testimony about Michael Haykin: …
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As book technology charges forward (check out this fascinating comparison of the Kindle and the iPad by Tim Challies), the folks at Crossway are setting the pace among evangelicals, not least through the ESV Digital Initiative. They’ve developed a fabulous ESV Online site (more about it here), and for a limited time everyone who signs …
My college baseball coach once said to me: everything you can do on the baseball field you can do because you’ve worked hard at the game, but when your dad hit the ball, he really put a charge into it. That’s why PawPaw is in his college Hall of Fame! Here’s his oldest grandson following …
This is a true story. That is, this is no foray into fiction. Little boys and girls were being killed inside. The victims of these murders are no less human because of their size; no less human because of their age; and no less human because of their environment. The little boys and girls were …
My brother in law brought to my attention that Logos now has God’s Indwelling Presence.
The past four weeks at Kenwood we were in Paul’s letter to Titus. Here are the sermons: April 18, 2010, Titus 1:1-4 Truth Produces Godliness April 25, 2010, Titus 1:5-16 Elders in Response to False Teachers May 2, 2010, Titus 2:1-15 Behavior that Commends the Gospel May 9, Titus 3:1-15 Behavior Based on the Gospel …
Read John Shore’s gripping testimony here (HT: Thabiti). Two things are prominent in his account: the conviction he felt for his sin, and the reality that “The story of Jesus is historically true.” This simultaneously pokes holes in two balloons: the one floated by the crowd that doesn’t want to talk about sin (see Osteen), …
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Newly released from Gorgias Press: Michael F. Bird and Michael W. Pahl, eds. The Sacred Text: Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures. Gorgias Précis Portfolios 7. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2010. Contents Introduction: From Manuscript to MP3 – Michael F. Bird The History of the Texts The Septuagint …