That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
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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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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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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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 …
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 …
I remember hearing John Hannah say at DTS: There are two things that you need to learn at seminary. First, the Bible is God’s word. Second, the Bible is the tool God uses to conform his people to the image of the Lord Jesus. To see God’s word at work in the hearts and lives …
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I’ve noted before that I think Eric Schumacher is one of the best poets at work on the craft in this generation. He writes to help the people of God praise the name of God, celebrating God’s saving mercy in Christ by the power of the Spirit. Eric writes of the new album from Reformed …
David Brakke has published a signifcant essay with a fresh translation of Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter: “A New Fragment of Athanasius’s 39th Festal Letter: Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon.” Harvard Theological Review 103 (2010): 47-66. He points to some of the implications of a “new fragment of the Coptic text” of Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter: …
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It was my privilege to preach at the installation of Ryan Bishop as the Pastor of Graham Bible Church in Graham, TX this past Sunday. The apostle Peter, the rock, follows Christ by humbling himself to serve others, identifying himself as a fellow-elder as he exhorts elders to model Christ-like self-sacrificing shepherding (1 Pet 5:1-4). …
From Southern Seminary: Dr. Hunter Baker will deliver the Fall 2010 Gheens Lectures, “The System Has a Soul: Lectures on Christianity and Secularism,” in Heritage Hall on September 14-15. Dr. Baker is Senior Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Political Science at Union University. He has written for …
It has been my privilege to preach through the book of Ezra at Kenwood, and here are the sermons in one post: June 27, 2010, Ezra 1-2, God Keeps His Promises July 4, 2010, Ezra 3, Disappointing Fulfillment July 18, 2010, Ezra 4, In the World You Will Have Trouble August 1, 2010, Ezra 5-6, The Second …
Here are some highlights from Gerhard Hasel’s essay, “The Book of Daniel Confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Journal of the Adventist Theological Society 1/2 (1990): 37-49. “At this juncture we need to make the point that according to current historical-critical opinion with its ‘Maccabean hypothesis,’ the book of Daniel originated in its present form …
Download a PDF of the manuscript behind BHS for free here. I searched the database for “Leningrad Codex” and the results of the search are on this page. It’s great to have these manuscripts, of course, but they’re worthless if unread. May we live in the book. HT: Charles Halton
Many of us enjoyed Part 1 of Andrew Peterson’s thoughts on money, and Part 2 is just as good. Here’s a great quote. The Kingdom, God’s will done on earth, stabs into the wide blackness like a bright sword in the hands of missionaries, doctors, pastors, and Christians who die for love every day. And …
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Modern Irish hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty (“In Christ Alone,” and many more) now have a blog. May the Lord continue to bless them.
Andrew E. Steinmann has recently published three commentaries that perhaps are not receiving the attention they deserve. Before I came across the volume on Daniel, I may have been dimly aware of the Concordia Commentary series, but Steinmann’s fine work deserves a much wider readership than the Lutheran circles that appear to be the series’ …
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I’m not talking about Abel (Heb 11:4, KJV) but about A. T. Robertson, who now tweets on Twitter. Lots of good quotes from a great scholar who loved the Lord and his Word. HT: Chris Cowan
Rod Decker has posted a review of what looks like a helpful dissertation. Craig A. Smith, “Criteria for identifying Chiasm of Design in New Testament Literature: Objective means of distinguishing chiasm of design from accidental and false chiasm,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Bristol, 2009. The review summarizes the argument and contribution of the dissertation, which …
Rod Decker has posted some excellent resources: Martin Luther, The Importance of the Biblical Languages John Piper, “Brothers, Bitzer Was a Banker!” The Standard, June 1983, 18-19. The full text of this excellent article is used by permission. A. T. Robertson, The Minister and His Greek New Testament (1923; text below taken from a 1977 reprint by Baker; no …
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Joseph R. Dodson. The ‘Powers’ of Personification: Rhetorical Purpose in the Book of Wisdom and the Letter to the Romans. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche. New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 263pp. 9783110209761. $155.00 (cloth). Published in Bulletin for Biblical Research 20.2 (2010), 288-89. This book is …
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