I’ll often ask friends for favorite resources on a particular topic or book of the Bible (as I did yesterday with Jonah). Well, Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary provides a booklist that they’ve recently update and that is extremely valuable for those seeking the best tools for Bible study. It offers the best 4-5 technical commentaries [...]
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What are your favorite resources (books, articles, sermons, etc.) on the book of Jonah? Feel free to either post a link or explain the resource’s value if you have time. Thanks.
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This blog has been pretty inactive lately—”centsless” is the way I describe it. I do hope to get back to it. I’ve not completely given it up; it just appears that way. Until I do, here’s a great word from Tim Challies on public disagreements with a brother. I appreciate his candor and humility. I’ve [...]
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By God’s grace, several of the ChurchWorksMedia.com hymns on which Greg Habegger and I have collaborated have been included in new hymnals and songbooks. We rejoice in what we believe is a renewed desire for doctrinal, gospel-saturated worship songs, and we count it a deep privilege and responsibility to have a part in the corporate [...]
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I’m finally finishing To the Golden Shore, Courtney Anderson’s riveting biography of Adoniram Judson. It’s a book I should have befriended years ago and is as riveting as any novel I’ve ever read. It’s just saturated with personal tragedy and gospel triumph. I’ve been moved to tears on more than one occasion. The following scene [...]
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Jay Adams’ critique of the “gospel-centered” focus of the last decade or so is extremely interesting, in part because he’s such a respected teacher of the Scriptures. He especially dismisses the idea that the Christian needs to “preach the gospel to himself every day.” Rather than responding in this initial post, I’m going to ask [...]
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With the help of my 14-year-old secretary/daughter, I produced a PowerPoint presentation for last Sunday’s message on New Testament sanctification. The message distinguishes between justification and progressive (not definitive) sanctification in a way that many found to be helpful. Hopefully it will make sense without my verbal explanations. Here’s the core of the presentation as [...]
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Jehovah’s Bride is the latest hymn from ChurchWorksMedia.com—an Anderson/Habegger collaboration that celebrates the church’s union to the Lord Jesus Christ. It was written as a wedding gift for Jared Miller and Holly Barnett, to be wed on August 6, 2011 at Tri-County Bible Church in Madison, Ohio. They specifically requested a grand and timeless hymn that rejoices [...]
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Some time ago I highlighted an insightful and transparent post on “The Monday Morning Blues” by my college friend Scott Bashoor. (If I’m not mistaken, I think it was recently reprinted in The Voice magazine.) The gist of it is that pastors need to recognize and respond to the weariness that often follows a Sunday of [...]
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