That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
David Instone-Brewer writes fabulous “Tyndale Tech” notes from Tyndale House, Cambridge. If you use Bible Software, perhaps you’ve wanted to sit down with someone who could “give you the skinny” on how to do things. David I-B has given you exactly what you need. Here’s the email I got this morning (get on the mailing …
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This post is for Denny Burk!
Brian Croft has given us yet another helpful resource in Help! He’s Struggling with Pornography. It’s like our culture is a field, and every few feet there is a hidden steel trap. Iron jaws ready to smash shut when triggered, ripping flesh and shattering bone, crippling the unfortunate, unwary pilgrim. How do we recover from …
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I enjoyed seeing the list of authors studied in the overview of the history of ideas at the College at Southwestern. Rather than filing it away in a word doc to come back to, I decided to post it here since it might interest others as well: First Year Early Western Civilization Aristotle Plato Sophocles …
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I try to answer that question in a guest post over at the Sharefaith blog.
I appreciate and resonate with the Naselli father and son’s review of these books by Grudem, Trueman, and Gerson and Wehner. Update: More info on Andy’s blog.
The other night the Faculty-Staff Basketball team squared off against a team of SBTS students for all the marbles in the Intramural Basketball championship. We (the Faculty-Staff team) jumped out to an early lead, but soon lost that and by half-time we were down by 20 points. We clawed our way back into the game …
Lord willing, I’ll be at Bethel Church Houston (formerly Bethel Independent Presbyterian Church) this Sunday, November 7, 2010. I’ll be preaching from Revelation 5 in their two morning services, and then at 5pm leading a Sunday Night Seminar on “God’s Glory in Salvation through Judgment: A Biblical Theology.” If you’re in the Houston area, it …
Conference Info: The W Conference: Simplifying Womanhood in a Complicated World November 19-20 at Southern Seminary Worship Leaders: Mary Kassian and Heather Payne Breakouts on multicultural relationships, girl-girl relationships, girl-boy relationships, balancing, time management, wise spending, spiritual fitness, God’s call, and the P31 wife. Learn to minister to young women! Bring young women! Learn to …
I join the chorus of gratitude to God for the ministry of John Piper. I could tell many anecdotes about how Denny Burk and I used to quote snippets of his sermons to each other, about how powerfully the Lord used a Piper sermon when I didn’t know how to argue against open theism, about …
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Carl F. H. Henry was instrumental in the start of Christianity Today, and now the magazine has published a cover story on a major proponent of that theological heritage. Molly Worthen’s “The Reformer” deals with R. Albert Mohler Jr., who perhaps more than anyone else today carries the Henry torch. It’s clear from the piece …
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The English language is blessed to have a variety of good translations of the Bible, and I think it’s good that in these translations we have something of a spectrum that moves from readability on one end to literalness on the other. As I think about it, the most literal translation is still the New …
I noted recently that my sons and I enjoyed the first two books of Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga. We’re praying that God will bless him as he writes book 3, and that he’ll hurry up and finish so we can read it! Anyway, the other day my 6 year old brought me this sketch of …
Peter Robinson on “Uncommon Knowledge” takes A fascinating look at secular feminism with Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield here. There are five segments total (segment 4 is linked above), and the first, on the reason Ivy League schools lean (perhaps “collapse” would be better than “lean”) left, was particularly interesting. Find all five here: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER …
Jonathan Leeman interviews David King on how their church removed 575 non-attenders from the roll. That church got a lot healthier as it got a lot smaller. David King: “The pastor really shouldn’t expect to whack a hornet’s nest and not get stung. Thankfully, the majority of the church shared my belief that the pain …
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Justin Taylor recently noted: Brad Green has a very informative essay in Touchstone Magazine about Starr, the future of Baylor, and the trajectory of Christian higher education. Here’s a snippet: Sloan voluntarily resigned in 2005, served as chancellor for a brief time, and then left Baylor to become president of Houston Baptist University in 2006. After he …
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Here’s a little Saturday something from my brother in law: We entered into a little cooking video contest with our apartment company. Check it out and vote for us using the little green thumbs-up below the video. Tell all your friends. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu6eJQYnWsE You may have to click through to see the video …
It is 11am, September 17, 2010. About this time thirteen years ago, September 17, 1997, I was sitting in the dining hall on the campus of Dallas Theological Seminary, having lunch with my good friend Denny Burk. Up walked a young lady who began to converse with Denny, and my life was changed forever for …
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It was my privilege to preach at the installation of Ryan Bishop as the Pastor of Graham Bible Church in Graham, TX this past Sunday. The apostle Peter, the rock, follows Christ by humbling himself to serve others, identifying himself as a fellow-elder as he exhorts elders to model Christ-like self-sacrificing shepherding (1 Pet 5:1-4). …