That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
Last night I spoke on Thomas Cranmer at the John Bunyan Theology and Church History Conference hosted by Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Kingwood, Texas. Virtually everything I said was informed by Diarmaid MacCulloch’s biography of Cranmer, with a little help from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. In God’s providence, yesterday was Cranmer’s 518th birthday. He …
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Part 1 is here, part 2 is here. In your opinion, is it going to take another “Great Awakening” for religious liberty to be preserved? MBY: It wasn’t the “Great Awakening” that gave us religious liberty in the first place, so I am not sure what the question entails. Moreover, if by “Great Awakening,” it …
Part 1 is here. Are there practical things that contemporary local churches here in the USA can do to maintain the balance of being in the world but not of it? In other words, how do we balance appropriate and necessary involvement in the public square with being about our Father’s business? Should we be …
Thomas White, Jason Duesing, and Malcolm Yarnell have edited a spirited collection of essays that originated as papers presented at the Baptist Distinctives Conference in September of 2005. White, Duesing, and Yarnell serve us in this volume by allowing all of us not able to attend the conference the opportunity to read not only their …
In response to Crossway’s release of What Is a Healthy Church? by Mark Dever, I submitted a few questions to Dr. Dever, which he was gracious enough to answer. The brief text-interview is below: 1) We hear a lot today about contextualization of the Gospel. What is your view of the role of contextualization and …
This past week I attended the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention for the first time. Various reactions to the meeting can be read in the blogosphere. The two main impressions I came away with were these: (1) all of us who are recent graduates of SBC seminaries have no right to complain about …
Andrée Seu has written a column in this week’s World magazine on why she is now wearing a head-covering to church. I second every attitudinal instinct she expresses in her piece, and I pray her tribe will increase! That said, though I agree with her submission to Scripture and embrace the clear roles it gives …
I’ve just started reading the second volume of Dr. Nettles’s trilogy on the Baptists, and here’s an important word: “When the church has wielded the greatest amount of worldly power it has had the greatest tendency to corruption and impurity. When it has sought to pursue its mission apart from any worldly power, and has …
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Stop whatever you are doing and go read this post on these three men: Ugur Yuksel Tilman Geske with his wife and three children Necati Aydin I have often heard John Piper say that the Muslim world will not be won without martyrs. May the Lord be pleased to use the testimony of these men …
Doug McHone will be live blogging The Northbrook Conference on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood with Randy Stinson beginning tonight. Watch Eric Schumacher’s blog, or check back here, for the audio.
One great writer analyzes another, and light is shed on both. N. T. Wright reviews C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. Enjoy! HT: JT
Every issue of the reactivated Criswell Theological Review has been both timely and engaging. They’ve done it again with the latest issue on war and peace. Daryl Charles’s essay on Just War Theory is a helpful primer on both the biblical texts and the early fathers. Richard Land’s applications of these principles to the situations …
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Here’s an excerpt from Dr. Mohler’s post, “Does Motherhood Mean Anything?” Iran scored a huge publicity coup in the capture and release of 15 British sailors and Royal Marines in recent days. Iran has played this game before, and is likely to play it again. The tactic puts the nation directly into the headlines around …
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 …
What if you could hear from the likes of David Wells, D. A. Carson, Philip Ryken, and Ligon Duncan on engaging an increasingly pluralistic and relativistic culture with the exclusive truth claims of Christianity? Here’s your opportunity! Praise God for Crossway’s commitment to the reproach of the cross. The table of contents is here, and …
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.
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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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 …
Alex Chediak has done a great service for anyone seeking guidance on how to handle singleness, dating, and marriage for the glory of God. If you’re a parent thinking about how to guide your kids through the dating years or a single person navigating those waters, the one voice of this book speaks with sanity, …