This week we are giving away a copy of Klink and Lockett’s book Understanding Biblical Theology: A Comparison of Theory and Practice. In order to enter the drawing, all you need to do is post a comment indicating the author/title of a book you are planning to read...
A little over a year ago, I blogged about some church history resources for children, and I recommended the Christian Biographies for Young Readers series. Now a new book in that series, this one on Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033–1109), is set to be released in the...
I wasn't one of the privileged few who got to pre-screen the History Channel's miniseries, The Bible, but I thought a retrospective word about the series might be useful for those who didn't get a chance to watch. Here are a few of my observations, first positive,...
Several years ago Michael Haykin put together a short anthology of letters written by notable believers of the past about the subject of marriage. The letters provide interesting insight into a side of the Protestant Reformers, Puritans, and others that’s rarely seen...
A new year brings a new opportunity to develop a new series, a new program, a new outreach or something else that may prove refreshing and revitalizing for your ministry. However, I have chosen this year to renew a focus in my areas of ministry, and I would like to...
I just began my second time through an introductory course on the Gospels. The very first assignment I have my students do is to read and respond to an article Scot McKnight wrote in CT back in 2010 titled “The Jesus We’ll Never Know,” in which he argues that...
Being a major election year, attention to voter eligibility has again become an issue. Each side wants to make sure that every person who might vote for its candidate is eligible and registered to vote. But there is one class of citizens that in many states is...
What is the role of the seminary in the spiritual formation, as it now called, the spiritual growth and maturity of the seminary student? Carl Trueman begins the discussion in this post in which he says: This is a real challenge for theological educators as it is one...