Zondervan’s NASB Note-Taker’s Bible is efficient for the task. Despite multiple areas where the Bible could be enhanced, avid note takers will find ample amounts of writing space without a cumbersome Bible experience.
You Are What You Love NOT What You Think
The way to get to someone's heart is not (solely) through the mind. We humans are more than just "brains on a stick." God gave us bodies and, therefore, the whole body must be
Salvation by Eating and Drinking
"The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'" (Luke 7:43, NASB)
Liturgy Series: Part 11 – The Benediction
As God's blessing flows to His people in the benediction it is not to stop in their hearts. God's blessings are to flow through his people out into the world; as far as the curse is found!
You Cannot Love Jesus Unless You Love the (Visible) Church
There is a very large branch of the evangelical church that (perhaps unknowingly) promotes a type of "relationship with Jesus" that is entirely ethereal (like Plato's forms). People go around asking questions like "Do you have to go to church to be a Christian?" while the apostle Paul is rolling over in his grave.
Why Are Reformed Christians So Afraid of Good Works?
We have allowed people to stop acting in accordance with God's word because they are tempted toward self-righteousness when they do so. This is foolishness and unbiblical. We need to repent of our laziness and do the hard work of
How to Fix College Football
In conclusion, I believe that college football is in a lot of danger with many talking heads promoting an
An Apologetic Confession
The Reformed cry of sola gratia has stood strong with respect to salvation (it is of God's grace alone that man is saved). The same, however, can not be said of their apologetics.
Book Review: Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Philippians & Colossians (editor Graham Tomlin)
Each individual volume compiles written commentary or relevant allusions from multiple writers, pastors, theologians, and teachers. In the case of the Reformation Commentary, the wide range of Reformed voice is capable of shining valuable light on the texts of Scripture.
Liturgy Series: Part 10 — The Lord's Supper
In the Lord's
Book Review: Theology's Epistemological Dilemma
"For Barth, we cannot afford to be epistemological semi-Pelagians." (211)
Women at Wells and Wedding Bells
Jesus came
A Pleasing Symmetry
The atheists are decrying the pure unreasonableness of belief in God while the philosophy departments in America and Europe continue to burst at the seems with Christian philosophers.
Book Review: God Dwells Among Us by G.K. Beale and Mitchell Kim
The term “biblical theology” can be intimidating. So referring to God Dwells Among Us as a “biblical theology” may turn away the very laymen for whom it was written.
New Year's IVP Giveaway
Three IVP book reviews will publish this week in support of a nice little IVP book giveaway. So enter to win and take the time to read the reviews of the prizes.
The Strange Bedfellows of Literary Epistemology
The insistence that we approach the Bible to find out what it "says to me" opposed to a historically informed reading is heavily influenced by postmodern thought; regardless of how
Top Five Non-Fiction Books I Read in 2014
These books had a big impact on my 2014 so if any of them sound intriguing to you then I bet they will have a strong impact on your 2015 if you read them!
Top Five Fiction Books I Read in 2014
Like all great fiction it stretches beyond our mental capacity to comprehend and draws us into the divine; something Lewis is uniquely capable of!
Destroying the Law
If we seek to understand the true intent of the law, and have it do to us what it is primarily supposed to do (show us our sin), we must sit at the feet of Rabbi Yeshua who came, not to destroy (misinterpret) the Torah, but to fulfill (correctly interpret) it.
Late Evening Indictment
Editors Note: I asked my friend Aaron to do some poetry on the book of Genesis. He and I share an old earth view of creation. A daunting burden in a conservative world bent on ridiculing us. He did an excellent job with this and I put it before you on his behalf.