Archive for September 2013
Barrett’s Book Notes: Christian Answers to Hard Questions
For today’s book notes, I would like to highlight a new booklet series published by P&R titled, Christian Answers to Hard Questions. Each book in the series is short (around 30 pages) and designed to think through a hard issue in an instructive manner. The authors of each book are outstanding as well. The series…
Read MoreThomas Schreiner’s advice…read systematic theology
In this video, Thomas Schreiner shares wisdom from his own reading habits. He advises young students to read systematic theology.
Read MoreAlan Thompson reviews new commentary on Acts
Editor’s note: This review is from the recent issue of Credo Magazine: “Born Again: God’s Sovereign Grace in the Miracle of Regeneration.” Craig S. Keener. Acts: An Exegetical Commentary: Introduction and 1:1–2:47. Vol. 1. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012. Review by Alan J. Thompson One gains a new understanding of the word “comprehensive” in commentary…
Read More“Preparing the Way”–A Pastor’s Thoughts on the Gospel of Mark (Matthew Claridge)
In my intro piece I mentioned there being three central concerns to Mark’s Gospel which also happen to be my three central pastoral concerns in ministry: biblical theology, gospel-centrality, and discipleship ministry. In this post today, I will unpack the first of these as Mark develops it in his opening citation in Mk. 1:1-3. Biblical…
Read MoreCredo’s Cache
Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. To Tame the World: By N.D. Wilson – Wilson notes that: “Our stories and philosophies should help widen our eyes to the glorious personality of our Father. We are…
Read MoreD-Day and VE-Day (Fred Zaspel)
Students of World War 2 have often remarked that although VE-Day was not until May 8, 1945, in a very real sense the war in Europe was over on June 6, 1944 — D-Day. In “Operation Overlord” some 1,000 ships — the largest armada ever to set sail — carried some 200,000 soldiers across the…
Read MoreJesus on Every Page – An Interview with David Murray
Is Christ in the Old Testament? If so, where? And how does the Old Testament prepare the way for the advent of Christ in the New Testament? These questions and many others are ones that Christians struggle to answer, especially if they have never studied the Old Testament. Thankfully we have pastors and scholars like…
Read MoreWelcome Jessalyn Hutto
We are pleased to welcome an additional contributor to our blog, Jessalyn Hutto. Jessalyn writes on a daily basis at Desiring Virtue and has developed an influential voice especially on matters of marriage, womanhood, the family, and parenting. So if you are a wife and mother (or a husband and father!), we hope you will…
Read MorePrototype of an Ideal Husband
God’s Word begins with the creation of the heavens and the earth. The very word Genesis comes from the Greek word for beginning. This is where it all started. God speaks, and whatever he says is. It is not that it shortly will be, or the angels will rush out and accomplish it straightway, but…
Read MoreWomen need more than Proverbs 31 and Titus 2 (Jessalyn Hutto)
The Word of God is filled with commands and calls to holy living. The weight of such commands would be crushing if not for the glorious news of the gospel which frees us from being judged for our failings and instead accepted by our holy God on the basis of Christ’s perfect life. Rightly understood,…
Read MoreWhat is Moralistic-Therapeutic Deism?
From Ligonier Ministry: The goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself, and good people will go to heaven when they die. Some who profess this creed also profess to be Christian. Michael Horton explains how biblical Christianity has been replaced by this vacuous moralistic and therapeutic deism.
Read MorePuritan Theology – 50% off
Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, by Joel Beeke and Mark Jones, is 50% off at Westminster Bookstore. If you want to understand what the Puritans believed, this is a go-to volume. Here is a description of the book: A Puritan Theology offers a groundbreaking treatment of the Puritans’ teaching on most major Reformed doctrines, particularly…
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