Archive for April 2016
Credo’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. Is it Biblical For Churches to Require a Tithe?: Jonathan Leeman – Leeman says, “With regular tithing included in so many church membership covenants, should pastors/elders hold members accountable to…
Read MoreBarrett’s Book Notes: Natural Law, Mather, Kuyper, Romans, and Zechariah
David VanDrunen. Divine Covenants and Moral Order: A Biblical Theology of Natural Law (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014. David VanDrunen has done some excellent work on natural law, this book being his latest release on the subject. What sets this book apart is VanDrunen’s angle: providing a biblical theology…
Read MoreT4G messages now available
The video from T4G is now available. Here are the main sessions:
Read MoreSunday’s Sermon: Citizens of a Free City (Thomas Schreiner)
Credo Magazine contributors Thomas Schreiner, Matthew Barrett, and Fred Zaspel not only teach in the classroom but preach from the pulpit. So each Monday morning we will be highlighting one sermon they have preached in order to provide you with encouragement throughout your week and with an opportunity to study God’s Word.
Read MoreDoctrine of God books on sale
Westminster Bookstore is having a sale on three doctrine of God books that are must reads for every student, pastor, churchgoer, and theologian. John Frame. The Doctrine of God. In The Doctrine of God John M. Frame resolves to remain faithful to sola Scriptura. “I seek here above all,” he writes, “to present what Scripture says…
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. Evolution and a Universe as Young as Humanity: Tim Challies – Challies says, “If we admit and endorse an ancient universe, we see a vastly purposeless universe that for…
Read MoreA Pastor’s Reading Plan
So you’re a pastor. You might be interested to know that the Schleitheim Confession, an early Anabaptist creed, specified that the first duty of the pastoral office “shall be to read.” The Anabaptists were right. Nearly everything a pastor does in shepherding the flock—preaching, instructing, encouraging, admonishing, counseling—depends upon his growth through reading. That remains…
Read MoreBarrett’s Book Notes: Faith Speaking Understanding and Progressive Covenantalism
Kevin J. Vanhoozer. Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine (WJK, 2014) I am always excited to read Vanhoozer. His thinking is theologically creative. This comes through in his Faith Speaking Understanding, which is no mere abridgement of his The Drama of Doctrine, but is actually the practical outworking of the latter. He writes,…
Read MoreReflections on Fallen Pastors (Timothy Raymond)
Well, it’s happened again. Another prominent, megachurch-leading, conference-speaking, book-authoring, Young-Restless-Reformed pastor has sinned in some grievous way and disqualified himself, at least temporarily, from pastoral ministry. I won’t recount the unfortunate details here, but if you’re the sort who regularly reads something like Christianity Today, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. If memory serves…
Read MoreSunday’s Sermon: The King of God’s Owen Choosing (Matthew Barrett)
Credo Magazine contributors Thomas Schreiner, Matthew Barrett, and Fred Zaspel not only teach in the classroom but preach from the pulpit. So each Monday morning we will be highlighting sermons they have preached in order to provide you with encouragement throughout your week and with an opportunity to study God’s Word.
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. How to Kill Sinful Anger: Jon Bloom – Bloom says, “Killing sinful anger that feels justifiable is hard. It’s an insidious lie disguised in a robe of justice. And…
Read MoreIf you can’t beat them, paraphrase them
President of The King’s College (New York), Gregory Thornbury, delivered the Norton Lectures at Southern Seminary back in 2013. The title of these messages is: “If you can’t beat them, paraphrase them: Contemporary philosophy imitates Christian theology.” Here are his three messages, especially directed to those in seminary:
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