This is just a plug for anyone interested in typology to go read Dale C. Allison Jr.’s fascinating essay, “The Embodiment of God’s Will: Jesus in Matthew,” in the volume Seeking the Identity of Jesus. This is an essay that will repay careful study, and I expect to cite it a number of times.
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Review of John Nolland’s Commentary on Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary on the Greek Text by John Nolland. The New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. Xcviii + 1481 pp. $80.00. It is always interesting to read an editor’s preface to a commentary series. In editorial hands the series becomes unlike anything else—or almost anything else—and at the …
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Revelation 2:18-29, King Jesus Versus Jezebel
This morning’s sermon audio is up here: Revelation 2:18–29, King Jesus Versus Jezebel The first few words didn’t make it onto the recording, and what was missed was my introducing the quotation that opens the sermon as coming from Joseph J. Ellis’s book, Founding Brothers. May the Lord bless his word.
Review of Encounters with Biblical Theology by John J. Collins
Encounters with Biblical Theology. By John J. Collins. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005, 243 pp., $22.00. John J. Collins of Yale (not to be confused with C. John Collins of Covenant Seminary) is a believer. He believes in historical criticism (22). He believes in Troeltsch (12). He believes in archeology (5). He believes that the Israelite conquest …
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Revelation 2:12-17, Repent of Nicolaitan Teaching
Sermon audio from yesterday morning (link fixed) here: Revelation 2:12–17, Repent of Nicolaitan Teaching
Revelation 2:8-11, Faithful unto Death
Only Jesus has the necessary authority to call people to be faithful unto death. Commanding people to be faithful unto death announces that it is better to be faithful to Jesus than it is to go on living. Only Jesus can make that announcement. Only Jesus can adequately reward that kind of sacrifice. The death …
In Siloam Springs, AR on Wednesday, April 29
Tomorrow night I’ll be speaking at the Activate Conference at Harvard Avenue Baptist Church on “Missional Living in the Home and Beyond.” If you’re in the northwest part of the natural state, it would be great to see you there!
Seven Reasons You Should Read Tom Schreiner’s New Testament Theology
1) More than any other reason, you should read this book because it will help you understand the Bible, which will help you know God as he is revealed in Jesus by the power of the Spirit. 2) Schreiner’s massive knowledge of texts in context will inspire you to know your Bible better. 3) The …
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Was Joseph a Type of Christ?
I think so, and I try to prove it in this essay: “Was Joseph a Type of the Messiah? Tracing the Typological Identification between Joseph, David, and Jesus,” The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 12.4 (2008), 52-77. The gist of my article is this: From the reuse of key words and phrases (linguistic connections) and …
Good New Stuff on the Bible
I’m glad to see the appearance of Ancient Word, Changing Worlds: The Doctrine of Scripture in a Modern Age by Stephen Nichols and Eric Brandt. Anyone who wants to understand the disputes in North America over Inspiration, Inerrancy, and Interpretation in the last 125 years should praise God for this handy book! The latest issue …
Revelation 2:1-7, First Love
Sermon audio from this morning here: Revelation 2:1–7, First Love And if you go to this page or this page you can RSS the sermon audio updates. May the Lord add his blessing to the preaching of his word.
Samson Crushed the Philistines, and They Wanted Entertainment
My colleague, Charles Halton, has a fascinating study of a pun in Judges 16:25-27 in the most recent issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature. The play on words involves two verbs that sound virtually the same except that one begins with “s” (sin) and the other begins with “sh” (shin). The verb in the …
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“Arise, O Star” at Songs of Southern Friday Night
Last summer I posted the lyrics to “Arise, O Star,” which is my attempt to put the Messiah in the Old Testament to music. This spring there was an invitation here at SBTS for folks to submit songs they had written, so I turned this one in along with another (an attempt to put the …
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The Seed of the Woman and the Blessing of Abraham
I have just been alerted that my Tyndale Bulletin essay, “The Seed of the Woman and the Blessing of Abraham,” is now online: “The Seed of the Woman and the Blessing of Abraham,” Tyndale Bulletin 58.2 (2007), 253-73. Here’s the abstract: Might the blessing of Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3 be a direct answer to the …
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Revelation 1:9-20, Jesus Christ Risen and Glorious
It was my privilege to celebrate the resurrection at Kenwood Baptist Church today from Revelation 1:9-20, John’s Vision of the Risen Christ. The audio is up here: Revelation 1:9–20, Jesus Christ Risen and Glorious. In a bulletin insert there were three charts that might be helpful in studying this passage: I think I failed to …
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In Houston This Weekend, March 27-29, 2009
If you’re in Houston, it would be a joy to see you this weekend at Baptist Church of the Redeemer. Here’s the schedule: Friday, March 27, 2009: 7:00–9:00pm Session I: Revelation 7:1-17, The Sealing of the Servants of God Session II: Revelation 8:1-13, Trumpeting the End of the World Saturday, March 28, 2009: 9:00am–12:00pm Session …
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Greg Wills on “Southern Seminary, Southern Baptists, and the Two Religions”
Dr. Greg Wills gave his Faculty Address here at SBTS last week, and it was a fascinating analysis of the “realist” policy pursued by liberals who knew they had to hide what they really thought from the people in the churches who funded their livelihoods. So, those liberals happily took money given to train pastors, …
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Review of Schwesig, Der Rolle Der Tag-JHWHS-Dichtungen im Dodekapropheton
Paul-Gerhard Schwesig, Die Rolle der Tag-JHWHs-Dichtungen im Dodekapropheton, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 366. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. IX + 347pp. ISBN-13: 978-3-11-019017-5; ISBN-10: 3-11-019017-6; ISSN 0934-2575. $132.30. Cloth. Published in Bulletin for Biblical Research, 19.1 (2009), 104–105. This slightly edited dissertation was accepted by the faculty of the Martin Luther …
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Dumisani Theological Institute
Dumisani Theological Institute in South Africa is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. I only know of this school because of my friend Alistair Wilson, who teaches there. Alistair also serves as the New Testament book review editor for Themelios, so if you’re sympathetic with the aims of The Gospel Coalition, you have a friend …
Tyndale Bulletin Essay on the Center of Biblical Theology Now Online
I have just been notified that my essay on the center of biblical theology published in Tyndale Bulletin in 2006 is now online: The Glory of God in Salvation through Judgment: The Centre of Biblical Theology? (that’s not a typo, and that’s not me deploying British spelling; the editors changed my American spellings to the …
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