Archive for January 2012
This Week’s Book Giveaways
The January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone,” is finally here! The January issue argues for the exclusivity of the gospel, especially in light of the movement known as inclusivism. This issue will seek to answer questions like: Can those who have never heard the gospel of Christ be saved? Will everyone be saved…
Read MoreBaptists and War Conference Audio
This past fall the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies hosted their 5th annual conference and the theme this year was: Baptists and War. Here is the plug for the conference: War, like poverty, seems to be a constant feature of human life. And in recent days, “wars and rumors of wars” seem to be…
Read MoreLa Réforme: Celebrating the French Reformation on the Quincentennial of Pierre Viret (1511–71)
This past fall at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Michael A.G. Haykin and The Andrew Fuller Center hosted a conference by the title: La Réforme: Celebrating the French Reformation on the Quincentennial of Pierre Viret (1511–71). The conference was offered in partnership with Refo500. And as the title reveals, the conference focused on the sixteenth century…
Read MoreTop 7 Books I Read in 2011
By Michael A.G. Haykin – 1. Tied for number one are John Wigger, American Saint: Francis Asbury and the Methodists (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Alister Chapman, Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Both of these books are “thick” history at its best: rich in detail, and conversant…
Read MoreSin and Grace
By Fred G. Zaspel Augustine once reminisced on an earlier act of theft he had committed. While walking home one day he sneaked into a neighbor’s yard and stole a pear. Now looking back on the event he began to wonder why he did it. Why would he steal his neighbor’s pear? It was not…
Read MoreAnd the WINNER is…
Comment # 19, Kent Capps! Please contact Lucas Bradburn at lucasbradburn@credomag.com to receive your books. We look forward to posting the January issue this week.
Read MoreRenovation of the Church
Renovation of the Church: What Happens When a Seeker Church Discovers Spiritual Formation. Kent Carlson and Mike Lueken. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2011. Reviewed by Michael A.G. Haykin This important book is a further reminder of the importance of spirituality for the Christian scene of twenty-first century North America. It records the…
Read MoreBlast fromt the Past: Thomas Nettles on James P. Boyce
[Editor’s Note: This interview by James Hamilton, Associate Professor of Biblical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with Thomas Nettles is from 2010 and was originally posted at For His Renown.] Professor Thomas J. Nettles is one of my favorite historians. It was a joy to audit a course he taught on Baptist history,…
Read MoreCountry Club Christianity
By Fred G. Zaspel – I have never been part of a country club, but I have visited a few with friends who were members. And the experience has always been a good one. Country clubs exist because people are social beings. We like to mix with other people, make friends, and we like…
Read MoreLast Day for Book Giveaways!
Only one week left until the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone,” releases. This week we are giving away three books from Crossway. To find out which ones and to enter to win go here. Hurry, today is the last day. You have until 8pm EST.
Read MoreOnly Two Days Left for Giveaway!
Only one week left until the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone,” releases. This week we are giving away three books from Crossway. To find out which ones and to enter to win go here.
Read MoreHow Evolutionary Ethics Influenced Hitler and Why It Matters
By Richard Weikart – [Editor’s Note: This is the third article in a series of three. Read part 1 and part 2.] One point that I explain in my book, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany, aroused considerable controversy, and it flamed up even more after Ben Stein interviewed me…
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