Archive for February 2019
MasterLectures: Video Lectures on the Bible and Theology from the World’s Leading Christian Scholars
Zondervan Academic has produced a video lecture hub called MasterLectures. There you will find thousands of high-quality video lectures on the Bible and theology from the world’s leading Christian scholars, including lectures by Matthew Barrett on sola Scriptura, Fred Sanders on the doctrine of the Trinity, Thomas Schreiner on Galatians, and dozens more. What makes…
Read MoreEavesdrop on a Theological Conversation: Recent Episodes of the Credo Podcast
Are you looking to deepen your understanding of theology? In the last several episodes of the Credo Podcast, a range of doctrinal issues have been covered, including doctrinal preaching, the image of God, the relationship between philosophy and theology, the Lord’s Supper, the doctrine fo God, and Christ’s active obedience. In each episode, Matthew Barrett…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage the Heidelberg Catechism
One of the features of the Protestant Reformation, whose 500th birthday we recently commemorated, was a revival of interest in catechisms. Ordinary people had long been deprived of solid biblical teaching, so these catechisms were designed as discipleship manuals to instruct children and lay adults in the basics of Scripture and the Christian life. Of the…
Read MoreAlmost here! None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God by Matthew Barrett
Matthew Barrett’s new book, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God (Baker Academic), is set to release on March 5, which is just one week away. For too long, Christians have domesticated God, bringing him down to our level, as if he is a God who can be tamed. But he is a God who is high…
Read MoreManifestations of Grace: 3 Reasons to Move Away from Spiritual Gift Surveys
One of the staples of the discipleship diet for the past thirty years in evangelical circles has been the spiritual gift survey. Various shapes and sizes abound (just do a quick internet search), with some robust tests reading like a Christian Meyers-Briggs analysis and others feeling more like a pop quiz out of the back…
Read MoreToward a Trinitarian Ecclesiology
No doctrine is more fundamental to our theology than the doctrine of God. Concerning the nature of God, we must firmly proclaim that the God revealed in Scripture is the only true God (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 45:5). This truth concerning the nature of God is expressed further in the historic doctrine of the Trinity, which…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage Andrew Fuller
Near the beginning of the funeral sermon that John Ryland, Jr. (1753–1825) preached for Andrew Fuller in 1815, Ryland described Fuller as “perhaps the most judicious and able theological writer that ever belonged to our [i.e. the Calvinistic Baptist] denomination.” Although Fuller was Ryland’s closest friend and confidant, his judgment is by no means skewed.…
Read MoreHow does our doctrine of God affect our interpretation of scripture? New Credo video with Craig Carter
What are the differences between classical theism and theistic personalism? Why does the intention of the human author not exhaust what God intends to say through the text? How does divine authorial intent enable a Christological reading of the Old Testament? In what ways did hermeneutics radically change during the period of modernity and why…
Read MoreHow does our doctrine of God affect our interpretation of scripture?
What are the differences between classical theism and theistic personalism? Why does the intention of the human author not exhaust what God intends to say through the text? How does divine authorial intent enable a Christological reading of the Old Testament? In what ways did hermeneutics radically change during the period of modernity and why…
Read MoreThe Fulfillment of the Great Commission: A Responsibility of the Local Church
In the week-to-week grind of my work as a Mobilizer for the International Mission Board, I often meet with college students interested in spending a portion of their college years overseas to make the gospel of Christ known in a cultural context not their own. This is a noble aspiration and one that I’m thankful…
Read MoreMore Awed by the Glory Revealed than the Glory Concealed
I have read writers and heard speakers who try to turn our ignorance about God’s ways into the main ground for our amazement and worship. They usually do so by using the positive word mystery to refer to the depths and heights of God so that we are supposed to be moved with wonder and…
Read MoreNow Available: The Complete ESV Scripture Journal Set
The complete ESV Scripture Journal Set is now available. These journals pair the Bible text with opposite side, lined, blank pages for notes, insights, or prayers. You can purchase the journals individually by the given book, collectively by testament, or the entire set. The most compelling feature of the journals is the text-to-writing space ratio. For…
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