I got to see the battle-front, She stayed to fight at home. The enemy I saw at work, She didn’t get to roam. I smelt the smoke and saw the flames, She took care of our kids. The fray I joined with the s-word of God, Some more homeschool she did. I got to see …
Category Archives: Current Events
Being Dead, He Yet Speaketh
An encouraging word about the way that books minister long after their authors die, and doubly meaningful to me because of my gratitude for Denny Autrey: Letter to Grandfather Prompts Prof’s Visit to Africa.
Don’t Miss the New JBMW
Denny Burk gives a great roundup, and the only thing I would add to what I’m about to paste from his post is that Jeremy Pierre is one of my favorite writers: The following is from Denny’s post: ———- The most recent issue of The Journal for Biblical Manhood & Womanhoodis now available for download …
Watch Your Life and Doctrine
Need proof that liberal theology is not morally neutral? Check out this post. Here’s an excerpt from an evangelical describing his time at Princeton Theological Seminary: My Outsider status became clear to me — if not for the first time, at least in a new way — when I sat with friends on the seminary …
Derouchie’s Call to Covenant Love
Congratulations to Jason Derouchie on the good review of his book, A Call to Covenant Love: Text Grammar and Literary Structure in Deuteronomy 5–11 in the latest Themelios.
Carl Trueman Signs Off at Themelios
I share D. A. Carson’s admiration and appreciation of Carl Trueman, which Carson expresses at the end of his Themelios editorial published today: Long-time readers of Themelios will remember that the final years of the paper version of this journal were among its best. Carl Trueman was then Themelios’s capable editor. When the journal became …
Jonathan Edwards as a Missionary
Insightful article by Jonathan Gibson in the latest issue of Themelios, looking at how Edwards viewed his mission to the American Indians, how he adapted his preaching to the new context, and how he pursued “social justice”!
In Houston November 19–20
Lord willing, next weekend (November 19–20) will find us in Houston, TX at Providence Baptist Church. We were blessed to be members at Providence during our time in Houston, and though we didn’t grow up there getting to go back feels a little like going home. If you’re in the Houston area, it would be …
Wallace–Ehrman Debate DVD
This is nicely done trailer: From the CSNTM site: On October 1, 2011 Dr. Bart D. Ehrman and CSNTM’s Executive Director, Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, debated the reliability of the text of the New Testament at Southern Methodist University. This was the largest debate over the text of the New Testament in history. A professional …
Chesterton on the Battle of Armageddon
G. K. Chesterton writes in Orthodoxy: I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother’s knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The …
Panel Discussion from @SBTS Chapel Today: Is a Historical Adam Necessary?
Did the Biblical Authors Picture the Earth as a Flat Disk and the Sky as a Solid Dome?
Peter Enns assumes there was a dominant world-picture or cosmology in the ancient Near East, and Paul Seely published several articles advocating the idea that the earth is a flat disk and the sky a solid dome in Westminster Theological Journal. In a comment on an earlier post, Steve Hays has drawn attention to an …
Three Objections Enns Makes to Mohler: Apparant Age, Authority, and World-Picture
Al Mohler rejects the truth claims of a religion that Peter Enns is trying to syncretize with Christianity, and in two posts Enns makes three objections. First, objecting to the idea that the earth was created with apparent age, Enns writes: “Apparent age” is an arbitrary claim that makes the “facts fit the theory.” Look …
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Peter Enns on Paul, Adam, and Evolution
February 9, 2011 was a great day for the Hamiltons, as my sweet wife gave birth to our fourth child. Praise God. Meanwhile, over on the left coast Peter Enns was giving a lecture at Westmont College, and in the lecture he refers to Westmont as a left-wing California-style evangelical school. In preparation for a …
Abortion Clinic Workers Plead Guilty to Murder
Jay Norlinger has the details: In Impromptus today, I touch on an untouchable subject: abortion. Two abortion-clinic workers in Philadelphia have pleaded guilty to murder. Why? Well, because they did the job after the babies happened to slip out of the womb. That’s a very fine line, don’t you think? Too fine for moral reasoning.
NIV 2011 Removes Selah from the Biblical Text
Rod Decker has drawn attention to the fact that the NIV 2011 puts the term Selah in the footnotes rather than in the text of the Psalms, and he suggests that the word should never be verbalized by those who read Scripture aloud. I like Rod Decker, but I think his post may be self-contradictory …
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2011 Appalachia Conference on Theology and the Church
If you’re in West Virginia or surrounding areas, you won’t want to miss the 2011 Appalachia Conference on Theology and the Church hosted by Randolph Street Baptist Church Theme: “The Centrality of the Gospel” Speakers: Phil Johnson & Burk Parsons Date: November 4&5, 2011 Location: Charleston, WV Details.
B21 Panel on Preaching This Friday
Tony Merida is preaching at the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana’s Shepherds’ Conference this Friday and Saturday (October 21–22, 2011), and Friday night I’ll join Greg Gilbert, David Prince, and Merida for a Baptist 21 Panel on Preaching Christ from the Whole Bible. Would love to see you there. Details here and here.
Fall Sale at Canon Press
Canon Press is having their annual 5 day sale this week, October 17–21, 2011. Much of their stuff will go for 60% off or more. There’s a lot of good stuff for homeschooling, and those who teach and preach the Scriptures will be particularly interested in Peter Leithart’s commentary on 1–2 Samuel and the new …
Axl Rose: Adopted Son of a Pentecostal Preacher
David Zahl has a theological interpretation of Axl Rose and Guns N Roses in three parts. Here’s a snippet from the first: So Axl is sadly the product of the worst kind of religion: ultra-bootcamp Pelagianism compartmentalized to the point of cruelty (not to mention completely at odds with its founder). It wouldn’t be a …
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