That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
Houston is a surprisingly diverse city. As you drive through neighborhoods in this town, for a series of blocks you might see huge homes that have been built on lots that were once occupied by much smaller domiciles. These houses are beautiful, enormous, stylish, and the lawns are manicured and clean. On the very next …
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Following up his larger book on the Holy Spirit, Graham Cole has given us a handy book on Engaging with the Holy Spirit: Real Questions, Practical Answers. In this short book (just over 100 pages) he looks at six questions: 1. What Is Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? 2. How May We Resist the Holy …
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Anyone facing first semester Greek in the fall, or perhaps this summer, or maybe planning to teach it to their children will want to check out Kenneth Berding’s Sing and Learn New Testament Greek from Zondervan. There are eleven songs on one cd that are accompanied by a 28 page guide. I remember realizing that …
Here’s another helpful interview with Thomas R. Schreiner on his New Testament Theology.
Bookmark it, put it in your RSS Feed, add it to your reader, or put it with your other buttons in Mozilla. Whatever you do with the addresses of the blogs you visit often or keep up with, add this one to the list. Nathan Finn writes: Between the Times (http://betweenthetimes.com) is a blog that …
I know some people who are really depressed about the state of affairs in the SBC. I am not in the ranks of those people, and one of the big reasons is because I am hopeful that the SBC will indeed find consensus around the theological program that David Dockery lays out in his new …
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Lee Irons has some good advice on Reading through the Greek New Testament year by year. He has even worked up a one year calendar for doing it. If anyone knows of similar resources for the Old Testament in Hebrew (and/or Greek), I would be grateful to know of them. He is also putting together …
My copy of Thomas R. Schreiner’s New Testament Theology arrived last night, and I have been feasting on it with great delight! I cannot recommend this book highly enough. My advice is to quit reading this right now, go to Amazon.com, and order your copy at their 34% discounted price. Then come back and read …
I am preaching through Daniel right now at Baptist Church of the Redeemer, and that enterprise drew my attention to Rodney Stortz, who wrote the Preaching the Word volume on Daniel. I was inspired by the account of Stortz’s life, and I am not alone. He died well, and being dead, he still speaks. I …
Denny Burk writes: Last Fall, I wrote about the “Building Bridges” conference that was held in Ridgecrest, North Carolina. Featured speakers included Calvinistic Baptists and non-Calvinistic Baptists. The presentations from that conference are being published as a collection of essays, and the book is available for pre-order from Amazon.com. Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue. Ed. …
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Richard H. Bell, The Irrevocable Call of God: An Inquiry into Paul’s Theology of Israel, WUNT. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. xxv + 550pp. ISBN: 3-16-148009-0. $175.00. Cloth. Published in Bulletin for Biblical Research, 18.1 (2008), 161-64. Having noted his shift in persuasion from the “new perspective” to a “more traditional ‘Lutheran’ approach” in his preface …
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In his fascinating lecture on “Reading the Psalms Messianically,” Gordon Wenham recommends The Letter of St. Athanasius to Marcellinus on the Interpretation of the Psalms. Having followed that recommendation, I am now passing it on, and I would also recommend having a listen (or multiple listens) to Wenham’s lecture. The most striking thing, for me, …
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David Toshio Tsumura, The First Book of Samuel, The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. 720pp. $50.00, Hardcover. Japan Bible Seminary’s David Toshio Tsumura has given us a fine new commentary on 1 Samuel. He lucidly overviews the history of the modern discussion of the text of 1 Samuel, which, …
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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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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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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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Just out from Crossway and just arrived in my mail, I’m eager to read this new book by D. A. Carson, Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor: The Life and Reflections of Tom Carson. A few years ago Carson had a short piece on his father in the SBJT Forum that was a powerful reminder that …
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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