That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
Trevin Wax’s post today on the Desiring God blog reminded me of this interview with Tom Nettles where he addresses the question. Here’s the exchange: How would you respond to someone who said he would never read your book for the simple fact that James P. Boyce was from the South and owned slaves? I …
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I’ve been asked several times now what I think of G. K. Beale’s massive New Testament Biblical Theology. I’ve mentioned repeatedly how much I’ve learned from Beale. It was a comment Tom Schreiner made in a seminar that first drove me to a Beale article that set me trying to understand how the NT authors …
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Into a land of darkness Where the light not legal is, We will go to sing the song Of how the soul may live. This is a land where evil men Forbid the truth be known, Though illegal, we will go, God’s glory must be shown. Doubt not the truth that in the end The …
What hath Whittaker Chambers to do with “Hope and Change”? What hath communism and secular liberalism to do with the promises of God in the Bible? What do racial equality and diversity, environmentalism, peace in our time, provision for all, the hope of socialism, the goals of liberalism, and the aims of all politicians have …
“Thus says the LORD: ‘Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, …
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Saturday night, November 19, I had the privilege of doing an introduction and overview of biblical theology at Providence Baptist Church in Pasadena, TX (Houston area). It was an honor to be at the church pastored by Tommy Dahn, who with Bruce Stoney ordained me to gospel ministry back in January of 2004. You can …
Denny Burk gives a great roundup, and the only thing I would add to what I’m about to paste from his post is that Jeremy Pierre is one of my favorite writers: The following is from Denny’s post: ———- The most recent issue of The Journal for Biblical Manhood & Womanhoodis now available for download …
As I’ve noted before, Andrew Steinmann has been remarkably prolific in recent years: 2008 – a 600 page commentary on Daniel 2009 – a 700 page commentary on Proverbs 2010 – a 600 page commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah And now this year, 2011, he has brought out a 400 page book on biblical chronology. …
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Here’s some encouragement – it’ll only take 3 hours a day for about 7 years: In his amazing book, The Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell develops a challenge for us all. To become an absolute master at any skill, you must be willing to invest 10,000 hours. I call this the “10,000 rule”. Here’s the bad …
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Need proof that liberal theology is not morally neutral? Check out this post. Here’s an excerpt from an evangelical describing his time at Princeton Theological Seminary: My Outsider status became clear to me — if not for the first time, at least in a new way — when I sat with friends on the seminary …
In 2 Corinthians 6:1–13, Paul gives evidence of his authenticity, and it has nothing to do with connecting with the Corinthians in cultural terms. In fact, Paul’s authenticity derives from the way that he is going against cultural norms. He proclaims a message that offends cultural sensibilities as it points away from worldly advantages to …
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Congratulations to Jason Derouchie on the good review of his book, A Call to Covenant Love: Text Grammar and Literary Structure in Deuteronomy 5–11 in the latest Themelios.
This is nicely done trailer: From the CSNTM site: On October 1, 2011 Dr. Bart D. Ehrman and CSNTM’s Executive Director, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, debated the reliability of the text of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University. This was the largest debate over the text of the New Testament in history. A professional …
As I indicated in a previous post, it seems that Jeremiah 1:18–19 and Jeremiah 6:27–30 are bracketing Jeremiah 2–6 as a unit in which there is a progression from Israel’s sin to Israel’s rejection for their refusal to repent. This would place Jeremiah 7 at a strategic juncture introducing the next section of the book …
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Adolph Schlatter said of Friedrich Nietzsche: The chief impression that I internalized from his lectures arose from his offensive haughtiness. He treated his listeners like despicable peons. He convinced me of the principle that to throw out love is to despoil the business of teaching—only genuine love can really educate.[1] Nietzsche believed in the superman, …
In an earlier post I suggested some ways to determine how Jeremiah has structured his message: repeated words and phrases, changes in content or theme, and changes in point of view (for instance, from first person to second or third) are all indicators of turning points in Jeremiah’s presentation. In Jeremiah 5 it seems to …
Peter Enns assumes there was a dominant world-picture or cosmology in the ancient Near East, and Paul Seely published several articles advocating the idea that the earth is a flat disk and the sky a solid dome in Westminster Theological Journal. In a comment on an earlier post, Steve Hays has drawn attention to an …
Al Mohler rejects the truth claims of a religion that Peter Enns is trying to syncretize with Christianity, and in two posts Enns makes three objections. First, objecting to the idea that the earth was created with apparent age, Enns writes: “Apparent age” is an arbitrary claim that makes the “facts fit the theory.” Look …
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February 9, 2011 was a great day for the Hamiltons, as my sweet wife gave birth to our fourth child. Praise God. Meanwhile, over on the left coast Peter Enns was giving a lecture at Westmont College, and in the lecture he refers to Westmont as a left-wing California-style evangelical school. In preparation for a …