My colleague at SWBTS in Fort Worth, Ishwaran Mudliar, hails from India. He did an MDiv at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and then an MA and PhD at Johns Hopkins University in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Philology. He was gracious enough to take the time to answer a number of questions that I posed …
Category Archives: Cultural Engagement
The Local Church: God’s Program for Evangelism and Discipleship
Dear Brother or Sister in Christ, Is there a relationship between your local church and discipleship? I’m not asking about the discipleship program at your local church, I’m asking if God might mean for the church to be the discipleship program. Is there a relationship between your local church and evangelism? Again, I’m not asking …
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Q & A on Family Integrated Churches
A reporter sent me a series of questions related to Family Integrated Churches. She gave me permission to post her questions and my answers, and when the article appears sometime next month I’ll link to that. Enjoy! 1. What is your position at SWBTS and Baptist Church of the Redeemer? James M. Hamilton Jr., Ph.D. …
New CBMW Website
The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood has a renovated website. Same great content; sleek new look. Check it out!
Denny Burk to Preach at Redeemer this Sunday!
The illustrious Denny Burk will, Lord willing, preach on “The Gospel as the Power of God for Perseverance” from 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 this Sunday at Baptist Church of the Redeemer. If you’re in the Houston area, we would love to have you join us for worship. Due to some complications with our normal meeting location, …
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Should We Expect to Cast Out Demons Like Jesus Did?
Justin Taylor posts his notes on what looks to be a very informative book on this topic by David Powlison. I highly recommend a careful reading of Taylor’s notes on Powlison’s book, which address the question posed in the title of this post. Here’s a teaser in the hopes that you’ll read the whole thing: …
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Why Pursue a More Liturgical Form of Worship?
Justin Taylor linked to two articles that have, each in their own way, vindicated my preference for a return to a more liturgical form of worship. As I wrote a couple years ago (how time flies!): Let us pursue a contemporary—stylish but not faddish, historical—orthodox but not dank, theological—deepening but not boring, and, most importantly, …
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Financing an Adoption
Justin Taylor has very helpful info here. May the Lord bless those who do as he has done.
New Dean’s Class Website
The web site for Dr. Russ Moore’s Sunday School class has received a major overhaul, and it is now up and running. They’ve included quite a few features that, if you have a moment, you might want to check out, from recommended resources to a video of Dr. Moore explaining the gospel to all the …
Christianity Today Article on Numbers in the SBC
I haven’t read this piece yet, but I’m eager to get to Christianity Today’s article on the numbers reported by the Southern Baptist Convention. God help us.
The Baptists, vol. 1 of 3, by Tom Nettles
Tom Nettles, The Baptists: Key People Involved in Forming A Baptist Identity (Beginnings in Britain), Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2005. 390pp. Hardcover, $29.99. Tom Nettles teaches at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the flagship seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Understanding history demands patience, humility, and love. If historical personalities are not treated by …
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Ringing the Bell for the Next Generation: Voddie Baucham’s Family Driven Faith
Many American churches are in many ways more American than they are Christian. This is reflected in the way that the “Christians” in these churches—and their kids—think about the world. For many, sitcoms, movies, and pop culture have a greater influence on what is considered relevant than does the Word of God. The standards by …
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Another David Wells Interview, and the Capstone of a Great Series
Praise God for Mark Dever and 9Marks ministries! Click this link right now and go download this interview that Dever has done with David Wells. Don’t keep reading, go get the interview. While you’re downloading, you should get the first one with David Wells from a couple years ago, too. You’re back from the other …
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Does the ETS have as much backbone as the Tyndale Fellowship?
The issue is not exactly as posed in the heading of this blog, but surely the members of the Evangelical Theological Society can stomach the doctrinal basis of the Tyndale Fellowship. Denny Burk and Ray Van Neste are trying to make the boundaries of the Evangelical Theological Society more clear, and they’re adapting the doctrinal …
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Atheistic Inconsistency
Tim Challies (DR for Discerning Reader) interviews Douglas Wilson (DW), and here’s a profound question and answer: DR: In Letter from a Christian Citizen you continually show where Harris is inconsistent with his own ideology. Is there any such thing as a completely consistent atheist? DW: That’s the fun thing. No, there is no such …
Why Care about the CBF?
Anyone wondering what the CBF (Cooperative Baptist Fellowship) is and why we should bother to know anything about it should check out this good word from David Roach.
Preaching the Cross
I recently interviewed Mark Dever on his new book, What Is a Healthy Church, and if you’re interested in another interview with Dever, who is always worth listening to, see the latest issue of “The Book Report” from Crossway, where they interview Dever on the book he edited with J. Ligon Duncan III, R. Albert …
From the Latest Issue of JBMW
You can now read–for free online–Russell D. Moore’s editorial and Jason Hall’s review of Kevin Giles’s Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity. The whole issue will be available online once the print version has been out three months. Enjoy!
John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace, by Jonathan Aitken
John Newton has received a good deal of attention this year, as the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in England has been celebrated with books and a movie about William Wilberforce. Newton was something of a spiritual support for Wilberforce, and he gave key testimony to parliament on the evils of …
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Is Blomberg Right? Does 1 Timothy 2:12 Merely Mean Women Can’t Be Elders?
The short answer is no, but that has to be substantiated. In his book From Pentecost to Patmos (363-65), Craig Blomberg writes regarding 1 Timothy 2 (italicized statements below are his): Verses 11-15 next call on the women of Ephesus not to supplant the male role of leadership in church. Verses 11-12 define this role …
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