BJU Press has made many of its titles available in Logos Bible software, and there are a number of pre-pub collections gathering interest now: The Christian Living collection puts together a number of the booklets the Seminary has been putting out on various...
Preaching
Dale Ralph Davis on Micro-Salvation
Every time God lifts you out of the miry bog and sets your feet upon a rock is a sample of the coming of the kingdom of God, a down payment of the full deliverance, the macro-salvation that will be yours at last. 1 Samuel: Looking on the Heart, 25.
Dempster on Samson
A perceptive observation from a book full of such insights into the Old Testament: Stephen Dempster: The structure of Judges shows that Israel gradually descends into a moral and political quagmire, and this is mirrored in the sequence of judges themselves, most of...
A Great Article on Gideon and All of Judges
I just read "Will The Real Gideon Please Stand Up? Narrative Style And Intention In Judges 6-9" by Daniel I. Block, then of Southern Seminary. It’s a model of what scholarship is supposed to do for the church: He lays out the major ways people have...
Bless You!
A true story, happened yesterday: I was preaching from Romans 11 in the small evangelistic ministry I lead; I teach the adult class. During this Romans series I have frequently reminded my listeners of God’s promises to Abraham. At one point, I asked them, “What did...
Law and Grace in Preaching
A friend of mine, an excellent preacher (his name rhymes with “come ‘n’ see us”), sent me this article on application in preaching by Michael Horton. If you preach or teach the Bible at all, it’s worth a quick read. The issues he raises, it seems to this preacher,...
Review: The Priority of Preaching
The Priority of Preaching by Christopher Ash My rating: 3 of 5 stars Christopher Ash is a preacher who trains preachers, and his little book The Priority of Preaching provides a unique angle on that training. He mines the example of Moses' long sermon in Deuteronomy...
Unwitting Support to the Enemy?
In her book Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire, Jennifer Knust assumes that because the patriarch Judah committed immorality with a woman he supposed to be a prostitute, the Bible takes an ambiguous stance toward...
Uncharacteristic (?) But Genuine Gushing
Jim Berg is one of my favorite preachers in the world. Of course, there are many preachers I benefit from. "All are yours," Paul said (1 Cor 3:22)—Piper, Packer, the Puritans—and the Internet has made them all readily available for my benefit. Praise God! But...
I Once Was Deaf but Now I Hear
I watched the video above (can’t remember whom to HT!), and I know this is old news for many already… I noticed that the woman’s speech did not sound like that of profoundly deaf people I’d heard; it was quite clear. I did not detect any accent or slurring at all. And...
1 Marks Interview Series: Kerry McGonigal, Preaching and Teaching Preaching
Right click here to download the interview. In the first installment of the 1Marks interview series, I spoke with Dr. Robert Bell about Old Testament stuff. In the second, I spoke with one of my pastors, Dr. Robert Vincent, about church and personal evangelism. Today...
Nick Kristof Is Right and (A Lot of) TV Preachers Are Wrong
Kristof says: Centuries ago, serious religious study was extraordinarily demanding and rigorous; in contrast, anyone could declare himself a scientist and go in the business of, say, alchemy. These days, it’s the reverse. A Ph.D. in chemistry is a rigorous degree,...