That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
Working on my review of Payne’s Man and Woman, One in Christ, it became clear that for Payne, and probably for many egalitarians, the issue of women in ministry is a moral issue that is closely linked to civil rights. To be clear, I think the Bible teaches complementary roles for men and women (here …
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Here’s a paragraph that I cut from my review of Payne, Man and Woman, One in Christ: Payne typically answers his critics with argumentum verbosium or “proof by verbosity.” Craig Blomberg wrote a 2,200 word review of the book under review here,[1] and Payne posted a 3,600 word comment in response. Tom Schreiner reviewed the …
From Randolph Street Church in Charleston, West Virginia: The Academy of Biblical and Theological Studies will be formally launched in May 2011 at Randolph Street Church in Charleston, WV. Visit www.randolphonline.org/academy for details and to register for the first class. Attached is a detailed description of the Academy and schedule. Our adjunct professors for 2011-2012 include Dr. …
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You may need to click through to see the video. HT: Greg Sykes
Thanks to those who have sent photos from the SBTS booth. Beautiful!
From MSNBC: PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten — An 85-year-old British sailor who dreamed of crossing the Atlantic on a raft as a young boy has completed the journey in 66 days with three friends. …. The raft, named “An-Tiki” after Thor Heyerdahl’s famous Kon-Tiki raft, was loaded with food including oranges, avocados, potatoes, cabbages and a pumpkin. …
Tim Challies can be counted on to shoot straight. His book reviews are valuable precisely because he’s not afraid to say that a book is terrible, and as he refuses to beat around the bush, he evaluates from a perspective of sound theology and biblical wisdom, loving discretion and insightful discernment. Tim’s first book, in …
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My friend Greg Sykes sent me this quote from Tim Keller in response to some of the comments on “Why I Believe the Bible“: “The only way to doubt Christianity rightly and fairly is to discern the alternate belief under each of your doubts and then to ask yourself what reason you have for believing it. …
Head on over to Kingdom People for this interview with Mitch Chase on his book The Gospel Is for Christians. Endorsements for the book: “Mitch Chase joins a growing group of leaders on mission to help the church rediscover the truth that the gospel isn’t just the power of God to save us; it’s the …
Somebody knows this? For certain? See this article, which begins like this: “Joseph Lelyveld has written a generally admiring book about Mohandas Gandhi, the man credited with leading India to independence from Britain in 1947. Yet ‘Great Soul’ also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he was a sexual weirdo, a …
This Sunday Kenwood Baptist Church will enjoy the ministry of the Word from Wes Pastor, who has nearly 20 years of church-planting and pastoral experience. In 1992 he launched Christ Memorial Church, now the largest Baptist church in Vermont, where he remains as senior minister. In 2000 he started the NETS Institute for Church Planting, …
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The good Greg Dietrich has all the details on a free class at Northland International University: “free to all new students who want to check out their Doctor of Ministry or Master of Ministry program.” Andy Naselli provides some bullet points that include an overview of the course schedule. It would be worth the trip …
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Through March 31, 2011, ChristianAudio.com is giving away John Piper’s Jesus: The Only Way to God. Get it here.
I had the privilege of introducing G. K. Beale at his first Gheens lecture here at SBTS today. It was an opportunity for me to heed 1 Thessalonians 5:12–13, and I want to take the opportunity to give thanks to God for Dr. Beale’s ministry by posting my words of introduction here as well: G. …
I’m sitting here grading a paper, and there are problems with the footnotes. All these problems can be easily resolved through the use of a fast, free (open-source) bibliographic management program called Zotero. Andy Naselli introduced me to Zotero, and it is phenomenal. Once you install the program, you can go to worldcat.org, look up …
I’m enjoying an opportunity to read a pre-publication version of G. K. Beale’s forthcoming A New Testament Biblical Theology and feeling a high degree of resonance with what Beale is arguing. If you’re in Louisville, let me encourage you to make every effort to go to make these lectures: Tuesday, March 15, 1:00 p.m. | …
Great deal here on Book 1 of The Wingfeather Saga, Andrew Peterson’s On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. Six bucks is hard to beat. HT: An Infant in a Cradle
Note from Jim Hamilton: I have gone back and forth on the propriety of allowing this guest post from Bill Z. Bull. There is no love lost between Lord Bull and myself, and I do not count him a friend. In the end, I decided to allow the afreet to put up his post because …
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Next week Greg Beale will be lecturing here at Southern Seminary. Here’s the schedule: TUESDAY March 15, 2011 1:00 p.m. | Lecture 1, Heritage Hall “Recent Developments in Old in the New Studies that Challenge the Organic Integrity of the Testaments”* 2:30 p.m.| Lecture 2, Heritage Hall “A Classic Purposed Example of the Misuse of …
Fascinating video: HT: Adam Richardson