‘The most accessible commentary to the average Bible reader today’
A Review of Matthew Henry: His Life and Influence, by Allan Harman, Christian Focus (2012)
Harman brings out quite a few interesting tidbits that are not widely known. Henry worked on the the last half of the book of Ezra for his commentary in the middle of the night when his wife was in labor!! He also brings out the fact that Charles Wesley's hymn "A Charge to Keep I Have" is based on Henry's comment on Leviticus 8:35.
New Bible translation has screenplay format
"The Voice" helps people to "fall in love with the story of the Bible."
"For example, 'John the Baptist' was really like 'John the Dunker,'" Hoffman said. John was doing something new by submerging people in water to cleanse them of their sins, but that is lost on people 2,000 years later, Hoffman said. Today, people hearing John's title might think it refers to a Baptist denomination rather than his then-strange behavior.
Reflections on a Curious Book
“The Decline of African American Theology,” by Thabiti Anyabwile
As I read Thabiti’s book there was something that I was feeling that I couldn’t immediately put words to, and then it hit me. Thabiti, a black man himself, writes of the black church and culture as if he was a visitor to a land he’d never been to before. Granted his work is historical by nature, but it comes across as if it’s written by an outsider.
10 Books (and One Letter) Every New Calvinist Needs to Read
Most Christians are ill-prepared to state, much less defend, the biblical doctrine of Justification
When I first discovered Reformed theology, I was a student at Dallas Theological Seminary. I didn’t know what I should read first as I attempted to learn more. I was on my own.
BTW, Black and Tan is no better
Black and Tan is nothing more than an apologetic for Slavery As It Was.
The "Black and Tan" era was a very painful and violent history in the lives of African Americans who were forced out of the Republican party by the 'Lily-White Movement'... For someone who is credible in certain tribes as historically knowledgeable about the South, "Black and Tan" seems to be curious title for an apologetic of Slavery As It Was. Even worse, to not understand (or care) why such a title would raise additional concerns for blacks in even more troubling.
We Gather Together
A review of Children in Church by Curt and Sandra Lovelace
"If a child feels privileged to go, understands what is being done, and knows how to behave. . .he or she will be hooked on high culture [corporate worship] for life.” --Miss Manners
Childlike Faith: Are Kids “Born Believers”?
What developmental science tells us about children's religious beliefs.
By five months old, infants already make the distinction between things that are acted upon and those things that do the acting, that is, intentional agents (like people). And preschoolers' default assumption is that these agents are super-knowing, are super-perceiving, and are not going to die. If a child is exposed to the idea of a god that is immortal, super-knowing, super-perceiving, the child doesn't have to do a lot of work to learn that idea; it fits the child's intuitions.
The Liberal Arts
An informative history of liberal arts learning along with a compelling case for continued application in our modern era
When the liberal arts are separated from the Creator of the universe and from a higher, overarching purpose, save for common grace, man corrupts the truth and follows after evil. Such secular teaching cultivates in students a fragmented, disconnected perspective of the world that encourages each individual to import and apply his or her own meaning to life. Gene... Continue Reading
What to look for in a pastor
A Review of Brian Biedebach's recent book
“I’ve just come out of a pulpit-selection process in which I have been quizzed and questioned by people who knew what their church believed and were anxious to know whether I measured up to their doctrinal position. They pulled no punches as they probed my answers, listened to my sermons, and read my responses to make sure there was a unity in the truth." -- L. Goligher
‘The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert’: Honest, Glorious, Wise, and a Gut-Punch
From life as a lesbian, radical-feminist English professor to a stay-at-home-Psalm-singing-homeschooling-foster-mom-pastor’s wife.
The portion where Dr. Butterfield is the most critical (and appropriately so) is where she helps us see where our spiritual formation is too often superficial and how the church frequently allows us to frolic in our biblical immaturity.
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