That the glory of the Lord might cover the dry land as the waters cover the sea
Christian, do you know Jesus? Do you know your heritage? Do you know the major movements and men who fought the battle that was and is the most important ideological controversy in human history? Do you know how this controversy affects you? Stephen Nichols has our back. He’s doing his part to help us know …
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[You can also read Sinclair Ferguson’s foreword to this book on the Banner of Truth website.] James M. Garretson, Princeton and Preaching: Archibald Alexander and the Christian Ministry. Edinburgh/Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2005. xxiv+280pp. $28.00, hardcover. Published in SBJT 11.1 (2007), 93-93. Archibald Alexander (1772–1851) was the first professor at Princeton …
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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 …
John Behr writes in The Way to Nicea (17) of the challenge posed to the church by “Marcion, a rich ship owner from the Black Sea, who arrived in Rome in the middle of the second century and donated a large sum of money to the church there, for its charitable works, which was soon …
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 …
Stephen J. Nichols has done it again! Following a number of helpful books along these lines, Nichols has once again provided a masterful summary that would benefit every Christian. This book gives a bird’s eye view of the whole Reformation (don’t be misled by the subtitle, it is about much more than just brother Martin). …
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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 a great list of books to start chipping away at: Mohler’s Top Ten Christian Biographies.
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 …
John Piper’s account of the last moments of his father, and his response to those moments, is a must read. HT: JT
In these words of 2 Timothy 2:3 Paul exhorts Timothy to bear up under suffering for Christ the way that soldiers stand in battle. A beautiful picture of a soldier standing in battle is given today in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal essay by Daniel Henninger, “The Real American Idol.” Henninger describes the Medal …
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February is black history month, and that with the February 23rd release of Amazing Grace, a movie about the life of William Wilberforce, make John Piper’s recently released Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce a must read for this month. This is a brief 76 page book that tells a beautiful story of …
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ETS last week was a great experience. It was good to fellowship with old friends, spend more time with some new ones, and enjoy some stimulating presentations. I presented a paper called “The Church Militant and Her Warfare: We Are Not Another Interest Group.” The gist is that the church is God’s tool for transforming …
My dear friend Denny Burk blessed me with a new header image for my blog, and I’m publicly thanking him and praising God for his friendship! Hallelujah! The image above was taken when I was 18 years old playing shortstop for Jacksonville Arkansas’s American Legion team sponsored by Gwatney Chevrolet. Thanks Denny!
Let me first say that I did not have all the books listed below read by the time I finished seminary (either time, that is, some I didn’t read until after I was out of school altogether). Let me also say that I have not read every word of all of the books listed below. …
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According to this quote, Martin Luther sounds like a good Baptist!
Go read it here, and be sure to see the question in the comments section about Watts’s later Trinitarian language. Haykin says someone needs to study it.
Read how and why his mind changed here.
A friend of mine sent me the link to this fascinating account of how Mars Hill Bible Church, led by their pastor, Rob Bell, voted to overturn the section of their original constitution that limited the office of elder to men. According to the article, two of their eight elders are women. You can read …