Here is Jayber’s lyrical description of God’s glorious inheritance: the saints, “One day when I went up there to work [Jayber is the church janitor], sleepiness overcame me and I lay down on the floor behind the back pew to take a nap. Waking or sleeping (I couldn’t tell which), I saw all the people …
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Jayber Crow on Silence in Worship
Jayber on those beautiful moments of silence when the congregation stills itself before the living God: “I liked the naturally occurring silences—the one, for instance, just before the service began and the other, the briefest imaginable, just after the last amen. Occasionally a preacher would come who had a little bias toward silence, and then …
Congrats to Scott Lamb and Tim Ellsworth on Their Book on Pujols
Congratulations Scott Lamb and Tim Ellsworth on their new book on Albert Pujols, Pujols: More Than the Game. I am very confident in the success of this book for two reasons: first, I was in Wal Mart with my boys over the weekend, and we browsed through their book selection. Lamb and Ellsworth’s book Pujols …
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Jayber Crow on Prayers and Hymns
I love this passage on the hymns of the faith. This paragraph, particularly what Jayber says about “Abide with Me,” wrenched my heart when I read it, and its hold on my mind brought me back to this book to type up these thoughts of Jayber (whose conduct, honestly, I found to be a little …
From Every Tribe, and Tongue, and People, and Nation
Weep and burn indeed:
They’re Giving It Away
Exhausted your book budget? Promised not to buy anymore books for a while? Christianaudio.com has a deal for you: this month they’re giving away R. C. Sproul’s The Holiness of God for free. Why not redeem that time in the car on the commute? Or on the lawnmower, or whatever. The price is right. Enjoy. …
Here’s a Book My Wife and I Need
My sweet wife and I have had a number of conversations lately about shepherding our children as they begin to engage technology, and this includes what we model for them. We need discernment in this area, so I’m eager to see the book that Tim Challies has written on the issue, The Next Story. Here’s …
Jayber Crow on “Weathering” Sermons
Can God bring good out of bad preaching? Here’s Jayber: “In general, I weathered even the worst sermons pretty well. They had the great virtue of causing my mind to wander. Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons. Or I would look out the windows. …
Jayber Crow on Preachers
Are you a minister who wonders what people really think? I suspect that the words people say to me probably tend to be a lot nicer than the thoughts they keep in their heads. At Andrew Peterson’s recommendation, I read (listened to the audio book) Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow. Wendell Berry gives us Jayber’s honest …
No Heart, No Courage
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, 26. …
Need a Good Reason to Shop in a Bookstore Instead of Online?
Check out Dr. Mohler’s post here.
On Engaging Your World with Tom Crouse on February 16
At 2pm On February 16 at 2pm you can tune in at www.engagingyourworld.com for a live interview with Tom Crouse about God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment. UPDATE: Rescheduled for Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 2pm, Lord willing.
On Knowing the Truth Radio Today
Tune in live right now right here for an interview on God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment. Update: the audio from the interview is here.
Part 2 of the CBD Interview
Part 1 of Matthew Miller’s interview with me is here, and Part 2 is now online. The interview is mainly about God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology, but the questions in Part 2 ranged from Inerrancy to the New Perspective with the SBC reformation in between.
Glenda’s Story
From Elisabeth Ellliot’s foreword: “Abandonment, abortion, abuse, addiction, adultery, alcoholism, alienation, anorexia–words hardly understood a few generations ago but now on everyone’s tongue, words we can hardly escape if we pick up a newspaper or turn on television. It is generally taken for granted that these sins and sorrows can be dealt with only by …
Review of Accordance
Accordance 9. By Oak Tree Software. 2010. Price varies depending upon the package purchased. (877) 339-5855. http://www.accordancebible.com. Having heard so many Mac users rave about both Apple machines and Accordance Bible Software, I determined that the next time a PC in my possession died, I would switch to a Mac to see what all the …
Dempster Reviews God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment
Stephen Dempster is Professor of Religious Studies at Crandall University in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada and is the author of a book I learned a ton from and love to recommend: Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible (IVP, 2003). His prose is beautifully constructed and communicates profound insight, so I was delighted …
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Interview with Bryan Litfin on His First Novel, The Sword
Bryan Litfin is Professor of Theology at Moody Bible Insitute. His book Getting to Know the Church Fathers: An Evangelical Introduction, is what you would expect from a patristics scholar, but now he has also written a novel, The Sword, which is the first volume in “The Chiveis Trilogy.” The book is set in a …
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What Did Wells and Vanhoozer Do?
From the interview on the CBD Academic blog: Matthew: In your book, you state “this book, quixotic as it may seem, seeks to do for biblical theology what Kevin Vanhoozer has done for Hermeneutics and David Wells has done for evangelical theology” (38). Can you unpack this statement for us in direct relation to your …
Biblical Theology Interview on the CBD Academic Blog
Matthew Miller writes an academic blog for Christianbook.com, and he has put up a very encouraging post about God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment, which is followed by an interview on the book. “How many Christmas cards do you get with the word ‘judgment’?” “Interview” He raised great questions that I enjoyed answering.