Tim Challies’ Summer Reading
I asked Tim Challies for a list of summer reading: You asked me to talk a bit about my summer reading, so here goes. My reading tends to fall into three areas loosely defined as serious, review and fun.…
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Discerning Who (and Whose) We Are
One of the hardest things for me, as well as the students whom I serve, is to discern accurately our own gifts and callings. Attending to God’s own guidance in that process of discerning is particularly challenging. However, it is…
The Gospel Coalition’s New Website
Andy Naselli writes: It’s finally up and running: www.TheGospelCoalition.org. Here are a few features to check out: Resources: This links to audio, visual, and written resources by TGC council members. For example, check out the resources for D. A. Carson…
Minority Report
Andy Naselli has done a nice job of pulling together some good quotes from Carl’s Minority Report.
An interesting approach to sermon preparation
I came across this gem while re-reading the biography of Principal John Macleod of the Free Church. Macleod was Professor of Greek in the Free Church College from 1906-13, minister of the Free North Church, Inverness, 1913-1929, and Professor of…
Feisty Wright
Thanks, Carl, for the link to the Wright-Neuhaus. Despite, as you point out, the increasingly whiny stance of NTW’s self-defense, you have to admit that he is pretty feisty. My favorite, second to his insinuation that Neuhaus was projecting his…
Alistair Begg’s Summer Reading
I asked our good friend Alistair Begg what he was reading this summer: 1. “Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics” by Graeme Goldsworthy. This is Goldsworthy at his comprehensive best. A terrific help in not missing the wood for the trees in exegesis…
Denny Burk to Boyce College, as new Dean
This good news out of Louisville today. Here’s the full story. Denny is an outstanding young scholar (and, among many other things, edits the JBMW for CBMW). He blogs here. The Towers Online (SBTS’ news service) reports: Criswell…
David Wells: The Church in the Matrix
Tullian Tchividjian passed along some info about the new documentary being developed around David Wells’s book, The Courage to Be Protestant. The project is called The Church in the Matrix: The American Evangelical church met the culture….and the culture won.…
The “Good” in “Good News”
From Jonathan Edwards, “God Glorified in the Work of Redemption,” in The Sermons of Jonathan Edwards: A Reader, ed. Wilson H. Kimnach, et al (1999): 74-5: The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God himself is the great…