Seeing the release of the first volume of Susan Wise Bauer’s History of the Ancient World prompted me to go back and read something she recently published in Books and Culture, which prompted me to leave the response below on her blog: Dear Susan, This comment is not related to the present post, sorry. Seeing …
Category Archives: Books
B&H’s New Online Catalog
B&H Academic has launched a new fully searchable online catalog. This is a nifty tool that allows you to browse the academic catalog online. It’s very intuitive, so no training is required. You can check it out here.
God’s Indwelling Presence: Chapter 3 Online
What does the Old Testament have to say about the dwelling of God? Does it indicate that God indwelt members of the old covenant remnant? What about those figures in the OT that we read about having the Spirit? What about passages like Jeremiah 31 (law on the hearts) and Ezekiel 36 (“I will put …
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Where Is B&H Going? A Word from the Director of Academic Publishing
Some time back I linked to an interview with Dr. Ray Clendenen at B&H Academic. You can now read a personal, compelling, insightful statement from Ray on what he hopes B&H Academic will provide and why he has those hopes. As some publishing houses seem eager to follow liberal protestantism in the flight from the …
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Powlison on Desire
Justin Taylor is posting important snippets of David Powlison’s book, Seeing with New Eyes. The first post introduces the lusts of the flesh, and the second explores how the New Testament describes what is wrong with us. You should read these two posts. This is important material for counseling ourselves and others in the fight …
The Faithful Preacher
The foreword from John Piper is here. You can browse the table of contents here. This book is a must read. Here’s a description, followed by some weighty commendations from the publisher’s website: The cliché is that those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. But …
Why Preach?
Here’s a great question that beatifully describes the Word given us to proclaim: What if you were led to believe, as profoundly as you believe yourself to exist, that God has spoken . . . that within the covers of the Bible there on your table, incarnate in the syllables of our own language, throbs …
Chosen for Life, by Sam Storms
One evening during my freshman year in college at the University of Arkansas, I asked my wise Sunday School teacher, “Do you believe in predestination?” He responded simply, “The word is in the Bible.” The word is in the Bible, but what does it mean and how does it work? If you or someone you …
5 Paths to the Love of your Life
I am so glad to be married. That was the sentence resounding in my head as I looked through 5 Paths to the Love of Your Life, edited by Alex Chediak. In God’s kindness and providence he gave me a wife even though I didn’t have the benefit of a book such as this. If …
Interview on God’s Indwelling Presence
You can download last night’s interview about God’s Indwelling Presence on the Converse with Scholars program from this page (or you can right click the words “The Holy Spirit in the Old and New Testaments” and hit “save as”). UPDATE: The links above seem to have died, but you can still get the interview here. …
Discuss God’s Indwelling Presence Thursday Night
Tomorrow night, Thursday, February 8, 2007, at 8pm CST, 9pm EST, I will be participating in the Converse With Scholars program put on by Reclaiming the Mind Ministries. I’m honored to be a part of this. Here’s their schedule for this spring: Upcoming CWS Guest Schedule Feb. 8th, 2007 9pm Eastern – James Hamilton The …
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Book of the Month: Piper’s Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce
February is black history month, and that with the February 23rd release of Amazing Grace, a movie about the life of William Wilberforce, make John Piper’s recently released Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce a must read for this month. This is a brief 76 page book that tells a beautiful story of …
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A Well Bound Bible
As a person who marks up the Bible as I study it, I don’t want to switch to a new copy anytime soon. Once I have worked slowly through a text, my notations are invaluable for future readings and for answering questions in class. They’re also very helpful when teaching survey courses on the Bible, …
Volume 2 of NACSBT: Believer’s Baptism
Volume 2 of the NAC Studies in Bible and Theology series is now available. This book was edited by my mentor, Tom Schreiner, along with my good friend Shawn Wright. This is sure to be the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and useful discussion of all the swirling questions about who should be baptized, when, why, how, …
Q & A on N. T. Wright
Why all this fuss among evangelicals about N. T. Wright? He is a great communicator, which makes him fun to listen to and fun to read. And he helps people think in fresh ways about Jesus and Paul—ways that often seem like the key that fits the lock of both the Old Testament and …
Is the Bible Sufficient for Those Who Are Depressed?
What do you read when you want to help someone who is depressed? What do you suggest they read to help themselves out of their melancholy? John Piper has thought as carefully about these things as anyone in our day, and he gives us his conclusions in When the Darkness Will Not Life: Doing What …
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Interpreting the New Testament Text: Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis
The New Testament profs at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) have put together a volume in honor of the long-time chair of the department, Dr. Harold Hoehner. This volume will probably serve as a textbook for the third and fourth semester Greek classes at DTS. The first half of the book contains chapters on method, and …
What Will You Do When the Bulls Run?
Biblical illiteracy is rampaging through our culture like a bull through the streets of Pamplona. We won’t put a stop to it by fleeing, but by facing the beast and, though it trample us, standing our ground. Maybe that’s a little extreme, since reading the Bible won’t necessarily be physically dangerous for you, but it …
Great Christian Literature: P. D. James’s “The Children of Men”
Here is a book in which the birth of a male child signals hope for the whole world. The child is hunted by an evil ruler (remember Herod?), fathered by a man named Luke, Christened by a man named Theo (the Gospel of Luke is addressed to Theophilis), and born of a woman with a …
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Baptism
I got a note from an old friend today asking if I had written anything on baptism. That prompted me to search my blog for the things I’ve written on Baptism, and I thought maybe others would be interested in these links as well: Why Don’t Baptists Commune with Presbyterians? Baptism, Church Membership, and “Together …