Elders is an outstanding book for Baptist pastors and laymen seeking to understand the issues involved in this polity discussion. For those preparing for, going through or recovering from a transition to elder polity this book could be balm for congregational wounds.
Book Review: Death Before the Fall by Ronald Osborn
As an entryway for new thinking on the Scriptures, many will find the book thought provoking and insightful. Osborn does faithfully show that certain theories of evolution need not be discarded while taking the Bible at its word (chapter 1). However Death Before the Fall does not deal sufficiently with the Bible to demonstrate to literalists that these theories need to be taken seriously.
Commentary on the Barmen Declaration: Second Article
In what arenas of life is the Christian called to respond to the ethical instruction of Jesus Christ and His revelation in the Holy Scriptures? This article addresses these questions.
The First Two Hebrews
Much like the anticipation of a major character in a movie, book or play, the Hebrew people surely must have listened to their stories waiting for the introduction of their family name amongst the oral tradition. Not to be disappointed, the first person to be called a Hebrew was Abraham.
Somehow both longer and less useful. But the series continues.
Oh I get it - UNO cause he's one!
The "Picture" Post of Judah's UNO Party!
The Backstory on Esau
But the truth is that God's election worked itself out in ways that the Jewish community recognized and passed down in their oral tradition. God's election works itself out in time and space through real people with real actions and decision.
Old-School Apologetics
Ya know what's great about this apologetic method? It can be practiced by the illiterate, the young, the dying, the stay at home mom and the English major who couldn't care less about science. This is Old-School Apologetics.
Book Review: The Cross & Gendercide by Elizabeth Gerhardt
I couldn’t help but weep internally at the devastation that sin has produced. It put me in a sour mode for days. We in the cultured west have hidden
Commentary on the Barmen Declaration: First Article
Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
he New Testament and Ethics is a valuable and brief resource. It seems best suited for classroom teaching and education. However the purposeful brevity minimizes the consultation value for extensive study in any particular New Testament book.
Birthday & BBQ; why can't the world pause....permanently?!
My son turns one today. The steady march of time continues, “
Commentary on the Barmen Declaration: Introduction
Though the attitude toward Barmen by the men who wrote it was almost immediately one of disappointment, it stands as a valuable piece of history. A flawed piece of history but nevertheless a forerunner in a confessional response to global violence.