That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
This looks like a great conference put on by the Andrew Fuller Center at SBTS: Baptists and the Cross. Date: August 30-31, 2010. Speakers: Akin, Bebbington, Schreiner, Dowling, Fuller, Thompson, Wellum. Discounted rates. Here’s a brief podcast on it with the director of the Andrew Fuller Center, Michael Haykin. A brief testimony about Michael Haykin: …
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As book technology charges forward (check out this fascinating comparison of the Kindle and the iPad by Tim Challies), the folks at Crossway are setting the pace among evangelicals, not least through the ESV Digital Initiative. They’ve developed a fabulous ESV Online site (more about it here), and for a limited time everyone who signs …
My college baseball coach once said to me: everything you can do on the baseball field you can do because you’ve worked hard at the game, but when your dad hit the ball, he really put a charge into it. That’s why PawPaw is in his college Hall of Fame! Here’s his oldest grandson following …
This is a true story. That is, this is no foray into fiction. Little boys and girls were being killed inside. The victims of these murders are no less human because of their size; no less human because of their age; and no less human because of their environment. The little boys and girls were …
Anyone interested in the history of biblical interpretation in the twentieth century should read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism to understand the political movements and forces that formed the wider context in which biblical scholars have done their work. This book will also serve as a kind of apologetic antidote to the selectively told story (if …
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This is an invitation to those of you kind enough to have this blog on a reader of some sort to click through to the blog page and check out the new look. We’ll leave the light on for you, please do stop by and see the re-model.
That’s what my sweet wife said to me yesterday morning: “So are you ready to go to jail?” I haven’t done anything illegal, but the meaning of the word “illegal” seems to be shifting. The question was prompted by my sending her Dr. Mohler’s post on the preacher arrested in Britain for saying that homosexuality …
Note: Tomorrow (Thursday, March 10, 2010), Lord willing, it will be my privilege to participate in a panel discussion at SBTS chapel moderated by Dr. Mohler with my esteemed colleagues, Drs. Ware, Wellum, and Wills. We will be discussing Brian McLaren’s book, A New Kind of Christianity. I am posting this parable in the hopes …
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My friend Jonathan Leeman is the director of communications for 9Marks and edits their eJournal. It has been a blessing to know him for lo these many years now, and I’m excited about the appearance of his first book, The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and …
I appreciate this from Tim Keller: 1. First, we sent our services out into different locations so that people could worship closer to where they lived. People can become more deeply involved in the community and can more easily bring friends if they attend services in their neighborhood. This was an ‘anti-mega-church’ move, since huge …
Tim Keller will be speaking in Louisville Monday night, November 16. The details can be found here. HT: Ross Shannon
I hadn’t seen this video on the prosperity gospel before I preached Revelation 13:11-18, but it is relevant. Here are my last two sermons on Revelation: Revelation 13:1-10 keeps us from being deceived by Satan so that we can persevere to the end in the true faith. and Revelation 13:11-18 gives us wisdom to distinguish …
The folks at CBMW sat down with Denny Burk and me to talk about the Time cover story. You can see the first installment here, or watch the whole conversation here.
Sorry to keep piling on here, but I’m studying to preach Revelation 12 this Sunday and keep seeing things worth noting. The claim has been made that the sense in which Satan is bound during the millennium is that he cannot deceive the nations. If that’s the case, I submit that Revelation 12 and 13 …
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Sam’s arguments seem to go like this: since this text (or this word) means x, this other text (or word) can’t mean y. I’m not finding x and y to be mutually exclusive. Justin has presented another of Sam’s arguments, which Sam concludes as follows: In summary, when we look at all other relevant occurrences …
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Justin Taylor writes: when Christ returns, the NT is clear that a number of things will end at that time (sin, corruption, death) and a number of things will begin at that time (our physical resurrection, final judgment, new heavens and new earth). In other words, when Christ returns, it’s “curtains” on sin and death. But in …
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It was my privilege and honor to participate in “An Evening of Eschatology” at Bethlehem Baptist Church, hosted by the Bethlehem College and Seminary, with John Piper, Sam Storms, and Doug Wilson. The Audio and Video of the event are available, with an introduction from John Piper, here. May the Lord be glorified and his …
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The audio from the Pros Apologian lecture I gave yesterday is here: “The Orthodoxy of the Text of the New Testament: Reasserting the Obvious.” Here’s an abstract of my presentation: The first chapter of Bart Ehrman’s book The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture suggests that our understanding of early Christianity needs to be radically revised, but …
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If you’re in the Louisville area, I’ll be giving a presentation (Lord willing) tomorrow, September 2, 2009 at 10am at SBTS in Heritage Hall on “The Orthodoxy of the Text of the New Testament: Reasserting the Obvious.” It would be great to see you.
This morning at SBTS Dr. Mohler gave a riveting presentation on the Future of the Southern Baptist Convention. The focus of the presentation was on how we got to be where we are now, and then Dr. Mohler gave a brief prescription for what needs to happen. Dr. Mohler didn’t use the phrase “typological interpretation” …
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