Archive for April 2012
Watch Together for the Gospel!
The Underestimated God: God’s ruthless, compassionate grace in the pursuit of his own glory and his ministers’ joy. Speaker: Ligon Duncan Year: 2012 Session: Main Session Divine Sovereignty: The Fuel of Death-Defying Missions Speaker: David Platt Year: 2012 Session: Main Session Spirit-Powered, Gospel-Driven, Faith-Fueled Effort. Speaker: Kevin DeYoung Year: 2012 Session: Main Session False Conversions:…
Read MoreA Big Announcement for MLJ Trust
In case you are not aware, Justin Taylor has announced that the MLJ trust is making all (yes all) their sermon audio available for free download. You can find them at http://www.mlj-usa.com/audiolibrary. The Trust does require users to sign up to enjoy this service.
Read MoreWarfield and the Dutch
By Paul Helm– One of the matters stressed in the writings of Paul Helseth and David P. Smith on Princeton theology, and especially (in Smith’s case) on Warfield, is the Princetonians conviction that sin affects not only the affections and the will, but the understanding as well. (Paul Kjoss Helseth, “Right Reason” and the Princeton…
Read MoreGod With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God
[This review is from the March issue of Credo Magazine, “Make Disciples of All Nations.”] K. Scott Oliphint. God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. 302pp. Review by Ryan Lister To help understand the issue K. Scott Oliphint seeks to address in his new book, God With Us:…
Read MoreLost was I
By Fred Zaspel– Sing to the tune of “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” Lost was I and helpless, damnation deserved, Yet in my proud mind, thought ‘twould never be served. No cares for my God, no concerns for my pride, My sin I would keep — knew no reason to hide! But God, rich in…
Read MoreHow to Keep the Seminary Christian, Part 2
By Timothy Raymond – In my initial post in this series, I commented on how seminary is frequently portrayed as some sort of intellectual lion’s den, dangerous to a vital, robust Christian faith. This strikes me as sad and quite ironic, since seminary is still the route by which most men are trained for local…
Read MoreBill Housley and Papua New Guinea
On Monday we highlighted Bill Housley’s article, “As Though He Needed Anything,” from the last issue of Credo Magazine,“Make Disciples of All Nations.” Bill and Kelley Housley are missionaries to the Inapang people in Papua New Guinea and they have presented the storyline of Scripture and the gospel to this unreached people for the very…
Read More“Heaven Can’t Wait” — TIME Magazine Considers Wright’s Heaven-on-Earth
BY IVAN MESA — Pulitzer prize-winning author Jon Meacham writes in this coming week’s edition (April 16, 2012) of TIME magazine with the cover essay, “Heaven Can’t Wait: Why rethinking the hereafter could make the world a better place.” (His cover story on the Rob Bell brouhaha also appeared last year around Easter time: “What If…
Read MoreThe Christian Mind
A couple of weeks ago Ligonier Ministries held their 2012 National Conference on the theme, “The Christian Mind.” We would like to share some of the audios and videos with you today. Below you will find messages by R. C. Sproul, Robert Godfrey, Albert Mohler, Sinclair Ferguson, Michael Horton, Steven Lawson, Stephen Meyer, and others.
Read MoreRedeeming Sociology: A God-Centered Approach
Poythress, Vern Sheridan. Redeeming Sociology: A God-Centered Approach. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. 352pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Nate Wood Being a seminary graduate and married to a woman who studies both social work and sociology inevitably arouses a desire to be able to critique and explain theologically why secular sociological methods and worldviews fail. However, as…
Read MoreHow much should the OT influence our interpretation of the NT?
How much should the OT influence our interpretation of the NT? In “From a Scale of 1 to 10” in the most recent issue of Credo Magazine, “Make Disciples of All Nations,” four scholars answered this question. Here is what they had to say: Craig Blomberg, Professor of New Testament, Denver Seminary 6 — Because…
Read MoreNew Books You Should Know About
By Matthew Barrett– James Robinson Graves: Staking the Boundaries of Baptist Identity (Studies in Baptist Life and Thought). By James A. Patterson. Nashville: B&H, 2012. If you are a Baptist then you may be interested in Patterson’s biography of James Robinson Graves, the founder of Landmarkism, a view that affirms church succession or the “unbroken…
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