That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
I give my Hermeneutics students a handout on logical and rhetorical fallacies (similar to this list, or this one), and then I give them an assignment to give me two or three examples of each fallacy. Anyone who still needs some examples should check out Denny Burk’s expose of David Gushee’s fallacious response to the …
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Over at the Biblical Theology blog, I’ve just posted what I hope will be a series of posts discussing Jeffrey Niehaus’s recent book Ancient Near Eastern Themes and Biblical Theology. Check it out, and I hope you’ll join the discussion!
I’m glad to see some discussion of the multi-site-church movement. SBTS recently held a public conversation between Gregg Allison, Chad Brand, and Jimmy Scroggins on this issue. Here is the link for the audio on the conversation: Franchising the Church or Fulfilling the Great Commission: A Forum on Multiple-Campus Churches I think this is a …
My colleague at SBTS, Charles Halton, has come up with an intrepid and intriguing way to entice people, even non-scholars, to engage his scholarly work. He is producing a series of videos that discuss his writing projects. The first is up. Check it out:
This article: “What If the Muslims Won?” is a must read. I smell a great sermon illustration in that shield wall. HT: Challies
An insightful post on what education is and what schools do from Dr. Mohler: Schools are never just about education. For that matter, education is never just about education. The school as an institution is founded and supported as a means to some end. In ancient Israel, education was to produce a faithful member of …
John Owen wrote: “Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could; every covetous desire would be oppression, every thought of …
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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Anyone concerned with the state of evangelical believers in this culture should read Dr. Moore’s thoughts in “Southern Baptists, the Family, and the Rule of the Appetites.” On your way there, check out these two pictures of a statue of a lion conquering a snake. This statue resides in the Tuileries, the garden right outside …
Americans should sit up and take notice of what’s going on in Canada. Not long ago, Canada legalized gay “marriage,” and since that battle has moved south, others probably will as well. There is legislation being considered in Canada that would make spanking illegal, and Dr. Mohler reports on an instance where a 12 year …
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Hat tip to Said at Southern for alerting me to this new blog from SBTS: Inside SBTS. Dr. Mohler’s initial post, describing the new blog, is here.
Hallelujah! The account of this resolution and these amendments to it is cause for rejoicing. Praise God for his mercy to us. Tom Ascol’s report on what happened is full of drama, and I was heartily encouraged by Jake Porter’s account of what took place as well. Now for the hard work of putting the …
Dr. Akin writes: . . . we are confronted with important issues that cannot be ignored or papered over. And, they must not be caricatured or misrepresented. We must face them squarely, honestly and most of all biblically and theologically. Only then will we discover if we can truly walk together as a unified denomination. …
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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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Andy Naselli’s first Ph.D. dissertation was on Keswick Theology (he’s working on a second Ph.D. at Trinity), and he recently gave a presentation at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary that summarizes his dissertation. I found his summary and critique of the Keswick movement enormously helpful for sorting through the way that the Keswick view of sanctification …
I don’t usually post this sort of thing, but sometimes we all need some amusement. So, a friend of mine sent me his collection of boxing quotes, and I post them here with his permission. Bob Arum, replying to a reporters question. “Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth.” Alan Minter: “Sure …
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The third post in Dr. Finn’s “Unplugged” series is up, and it gives a fascinating look at the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. Every young Southern Baptist should read it for the encouragement (and for another opportunity to thank God for the way he has used Paige Patterson to lead Bible believing people to reclaim …
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I very much enjoyed Prof Nathan Finn’s address at the recent Building Bridges Conference, and I’m glad to see that he is now giving straight answers to questions younger leaders are asking. These questions are a helpful window into what students at Southeastern College are thinking about, and Dr. Finn gives respectful, informed, frank, and …
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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