Archive for December 2016
Sinclair Ferguson: Why the God-Man?
Prepare him room: Glory to God in the highest
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Credo Magazine will be posting selections from Scripture. Amidst your busy daily schedule and all the rush that comes with the holiday season, we hope this will be an opportunity for you to read and meditate upon God’s Word and rejoice in the coming of…
Read MorePrepare him room: A horn of salvation
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Credo Magazine will be posting selections from Scripture. Amidst your busy daily schedule and all the rush that comes with the holiday season, we hope this will be an opportunity for you to read and meditate upon God’s Word and rejoice in the coming of…
Read MoreFeature articles in new issue: Kolb, Castaldo, Holcomb, Ortlund, and more
The new issue of Credo Magazine is here: “Sola Sriptura.” We have some outstanding contributors, each of which focuses on the relevance for biblical authority today. Today we would like to highlight the feature articles: What is sola scriptura? Matthew Barrett Sola scriptura then and now: Biblical authority in late medieval and Reformation context, by…
Read MoreBarrett’s Book Notes: ESV Reader’s Bible, Six-Volume Set
The ESV Reader’s Bible (6 volumes), published by Crossway, is impressive. There are many things I like about it: top quality pages and hardcover, inviting fonts, and the absence of artificial divisions in the text itself. In short, the set is classy, yet it simultaneously creates a reading experience that is unencumbered. The lack of…
Read MorePrepare him room: My soul magnifies the Lord
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Credo Magazine will be posting selections from Scripture. Amidst your busy daily schedule and all the rush that comes with the holiday season, we hope this will be an opportunity for you to read and meditate upon God’s Word and rejoice in the coming of…
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. My Top 10 Theology Stories of 2016: Collin Hansen – Hansen says, “We’ll remember 2016 as the year we’d rather forget. Normally I search for at least a few…
Read MoreNew issue: Sola Scriptura
The new issue of Credo Magazine is here: “Sola Sriptura.” We have some outstanding contributors, each of which focuses on the relevance for biblical authority today. Here is the magazine! Read as a PDF Protestantism today faces a crisis in authority. Living in the twenty-first century means we are born into a world that has…
Read MorePrepare him room: The angel appears to Mary
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Credo Magazine will be posting selections from Scripture. Amidst your busy daily schedule and all the rush that comes with the holiday season, we hope this will be an opportunity for you to read and meditate upon God’s Word and rejoice in the coming of…
Read MoreBarrett’s Book Notes: Free will and devotions with the Reformers
Recently I was delighted to write endorsements for two new books that I believe will be very helpful resources for churchgoers. Here is what I had to say about each: Scott Christensen. What About Free Will? Reconciling Our Choices with God’s Sovereignty. P&R, 2016. “Christensen very practically and persuasively develops a case for compatibilism. But…
Read MorePrepare him room: The birth of Jesus
As we prepare to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Credo Magazine will be posting selections from Scripture. Amidst your busy daily schedule and all the rush that comes with the holiday season, we hope this will be an opportunity for you to read and meditate upon God’s Word and rejoice in the coming of…
Read More1994 interview with J. I. Packer
Today we’d like to highlight an 1994 interview with J. I. Packer by Tom Ascol. Though the interview is not over 20 years old, many of Packer’s answers are just as relevant today. Question: Dr. Packer, you have done a great deal of writing and speaking on the subject of the need for a new reformation,…
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