That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
The Bible is clear, but that doesn’t mean that it is easy to rightly interpret it. Interpreting the Bible rightly is one of the hardest things in the world to do. And if interpretation is difficult, proclamation is even harder. We move beyond the meaning of the points made in the text to questions like: …
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I’ll be speaking on the most biblical form of ecclesiology at Redeemer Community Church in Katy, TX tomorrow night, Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 7pm. If you’re in the area, I would love to see you. I’ll be arguing that the most biblical form of ecclesiology is the one practiced historically by Baptist churches: elder-led …
The perfectly sanctified people who are totally unselfish and have their whole lives running smoothly and efficiently for the love of God and neighbor don’t need this book. The rest of us do need this book because we are selfish with our time and resources, organizationally challenged, and so concerned about what people will think …
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Stanley E. Porter, ed., The Messiah in the Old and New Testaments. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. ix + 268pp. $29.00, paper. These essays were presented at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 2004. The collection is preceded by an introduction written by Stanley Porter and concluded with a response, in which each paper …
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Some enterprising folks who believe that “faith comes by hearing” (Rom 10:17) have partnered with the Lockman Foundation to make the NASB available on mp3. The mp3 files can be kept on the computer, transferred to an mp3 player, or burned onto CD’s. The whole Bible will fit on three mp3 CD’s and takes up …
My friend Mike Bird posted some questions in response to what is happening at Westminster Seminary with Peter Enns as a result of Enns’s book, Inspiration and Incarnation. My responses to those questions in the comments section on Bird’s blog became such that I thought it might be useful to post them here. For the …
We are all aware of the growing phenomenon of biblical illiteracy, and I sometimes hear people who minister in churches complain that the mammoth proportions of the problem make it difficult to teach and preach because it is necessary to keep things at such a basic level. One of my classmates from DTS days, Mitch …
Andy Cheung interviews Tom Schreiner on his New Testament Theology, due out soon, here.
The Call to Joy and Pain looks like a great book from Ajith Fernando. It has just been honored among the 2008 Christianity Today Book Award recipients under the category of “The Church/Pastoral Leadership.” Congratulations to Dr. Fernando and Crossway! The title captures the Pauline experience of being “sorrowful and yet always rejoicing.” I’m eager …
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I met Justin Hardin a few summers ago when I visited Tyndale House, Cambridge. Justin was there doing his Ph.D., and I feel blessed to call him a friend. His dissertation explored the question of whether Paul is engaging the Imperial Cult in Galatians, and he now teaches at Oklahoma Baptist University, but in September …
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It was my joy and privilege to present a lecture yesterday at Southern Seminary on the topic in the title of this post. For those interested in the presentation, I will update this post with the audio if/when it appears on the SBTS website. For anyone interested in the bibliography and the sections I had …
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I just noticed that my essay, “Old Covenant Believers and the Indwelling Spirit: A Survey of the Spectrum of the Opinion,” is one of the “sample articles” made available at present from the Trinity Journal website. I don’t currently have permission to post that essay here, but for the present you can download it from …
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I am humbled and honored by the opportunity to deliver a Julius Brown Gay Lecture at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you’re in Louisville and find the topic interesting, it would be a joy to see you there (particularly if we know each other from my time in Louisville!). Otherwise, please pray for me …
How can evangelicals best influence the United States of America? I submit that there is a better answer than the one that would be given by either Chris Matthews or Rush Limbaugh. The greatest influence evangelical Christians can have upon American society and politics will not come by lobbying Washington, getting out the vote, or …
Baker has posted the first 46 pages of Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner’s forthcoming New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ. Enjoy the appetizer, and make plans to spend your early summer reading this one cover to cover. Amazon projects that it will be out May 1. HT: Mike Bird
It’s great to see this volume on Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churches appear. Dr. Mohler writes: “The loss of a biblical vision of the local church–indeed the collapse of biblical ecclesiology in many congregations–is the greatest threat to Baptists. Restoring Integrity in Baptist Churces is a book urgently needed and well timed. The writers of …
Paul M. Hoskins, Jesus as the Fulfillment of the Temple in the Gospel of John, Paternoster Biblical Monographs. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2006. xiv + 265pp. $35.00. Paper. This volume is a revision of a dissertation done by Paul Hoskins, who now teaches at Southwestern Seminary, at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School under the supervision of D. …
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The latest 9Marks eJournal is out, PDF here. Jonathan Leeman and I teamed up and wrote A Biblical Theology of Corporate Prayer.
Scott J. Hafemann and Paul R. House, eds., Central Themes in Biblical Theology: Mapping Unity in Diversity, Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007. 330pp. $29.99, paper. Two leading evangelical biblical theologians, Scott Hafemann and Paul House, have edited a collection of essays that include their own contributions as well as key treatments from five other scholars, all …
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Guy Waters, The End of Deuteronomy in the Epistles of Paul, WUNT 2/221. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006. 302pp. ISBN: 3-16-148891-1. $99.50. Paper. This volume is the published version of a dissertation written under the supervision of Richard B. Hays at Duke University. Guy Waters, who now teaches at RTS in Jackson, MS, is also the …
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