Joe Hellerman made a great statement about what kind of pastors are needed today. Up until this point in the book, he had developed the importance of social status and honor in Philippi including Roman citizenship. Then, after drawing similarities… Read More ›
Books
A Model for Local Church Leadership
If your church is currently trying to figure out its way regarding local church leadership, there is a book that can help your understand the biblical path forward. Joe Hellerman’s book, Embracing Shared Leadership: Power and Status in the Early… Read More ›
Cornelius Plantinga’s excellent book on the nature of sin: “Not the Way it’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin”
I have begun reading Cornelius Plantinga’s book, “Not the Way it’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin” and I love it. I am not sure how I missed this when it was first published over 20 years ago. If… Read More ›
“The gospel…by which your are saved” 1 Cor 15:1-2
I mentioned in an earlier post that I am working (slowly) on a theological exposition of 1 Corinthians 15 that I hope to have published one day. In that post I linked to an excerpt from 15:1-2. The rest of… Read More ›
New Tim Keller book on Preaching
Tim Keller’s highly anticipated book on preaching is finally out. It is titled Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism. Keller, preaching in New York City, has mastered the art of communicating faith in such an environment and his book will challenge… Read More ›
Keller and Kempis on loving Christ
Yesterday I read an article by Tim Keller titled “The Revolutionary Christian Heart” that has preoccupied my mind ever since. Keller discusses the struggle of heart and mind in various times of history and worldviews. He states, “For the Greeks… Read More ›
Two New Greek Resources by Rod Decker
Dr. Rod Decker of Baptist Bible Seminary will have published this Fall both a first year Greek Grammar as well as a two-volume handbook on the Greek text of the Gospel of Mark. The first year grammar published by Baker Academic is… Read More ›
The Deep Things of God by Fred Sanders
In our men’s Theological Discussion Group, we have been discussing the book by Fred Sanders titled The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything published by Crossway in 2010. Sanders laments how the doctrine of the Trinity has been… Read More ›
Great C. S. Lewis quote about Culture
I am reading C. S. Lewis’s book The Weight of Glory and once again I realize why he is so popular 50 years after his death. He is addressing the fact that culture will always exist, even in times of… Read More ›
Free of Charge by Miroslav Volf
I recently read the book Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf. Volf is professor of theology at Yale Divinity School. Volf, interacting with the Scriptures, systematic theology, Luther, culture and personal experience, makes… Read More ›
God Incarnate 