POSSESSED BY GOD: A NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY OF SANCTIFICATION AND HOLINESS, by David Peterson
It has been about twenty years since I first read this book (I have the original 1995 edition – the first in Carson’s New Studies in Biblical Theology series), and reading it again now has only reinforced my high estimation…
Adam Revisited: First Man or One of Many? Guest Blog by Hans Madueme
Editor’s Note: Today’s blog is in response to an inquiry from one of our readers. The question was, given the historicity of Adam, whether Scripture demands that we understand him as the biological father of all humanity. The reader…
Weekly Recap April 30, 2016
Check out everything from this week, from our summary on Sinclair Ferguson’s new book, to our interview Naselli and Crowley on their book about conscience, to the rest.
GOD’S WORD, OUR STORY: LEARNING FROM THE BOOK OF NEHEMIAH, edited by D.A. Carson and Kathleen B. Nielson
You just have to love the emphasis The Gospel Coalition continues to place on biblical exposition – informed, gospel-centered, connected-to-the-Bible-Story exposition, to be specific. TGC founders D.A. Carson and Tim Keller have shaped the organization to promote and to model…
VISUAL THEOLOGY: SEEING AND UNDERSTANDING THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD, by Tim Challies and Josh Byers
If you can read it, you can usually understand it. And if you can visualize it also, you can probably understand it better … and remember it better also. That seems to be the thinking behind this attractive new book…
Weekly Recap April 23, 2016
Missed anything this week? No problem! It’s all right here. Catch up on an easy Saturday.
THE HEART OF THE GOSPEL: GOD’S SON GIVEN FOR YOU, by Sinclair B. Ferguson
You find true gospel preaching only when you find a preacher who understands that to preach the gospel he must preach Christ. To preach Christ is to preach doctrine, of course, but there is something warmly distinct about preaching that…
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Weekly Recap April 16, 2016
This week we posted a bonus summary, giving you two total, both explicating on the work of the cross. We interviewed Vern Poythress on hermeneutics and reviewed a new work on lament and progressive covenantalism.
Weekly Recap April 9, 2016
Our summary this week comes in the midst of much cultural confusion about the roles of male and female. Check out this biblical-theological survey is what God intended for male and female. There’s also a new study Bible you’ll want…
A PURITAN THEOLOGY: DOCTRINE FOR LIFE
The Puritans were nothing if not prolific authors, and keeping up with the hundreds of their works republished over the past generation is a daunting task to say the least. Some have made the specialized attempt, and various “Introductions” and…
PIERCED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS: REDISCOVERING THE GLORY OF PENAL SUBSTITUTION, by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach – Excerpt 2
We want to draw your attention again to this wonderful book on the substitutionary nature of the death of Christ. In chapter 2 the authors examined a number of passages that present the death of Christ as that of a…
Weekly Recap April 1, 2016
What a great week to brush up on your understanding of the Trinity with our summary of Bruce Ware’s work. We finished up our interview on the unchanging witness of the church on homosexuality, reviewed a new NSBT volume, and…
THE INERRANT WORD: BIBLICAL, HISTORICAL, THEOLOGICAL, AND PASTORAL PERSPECTIVES, edited by John MacArthur
John MacArthur continues to be a leading voice in the defense and exposition of biblical inerrancy. Throughout his ministry in preaching and writing he has kept this doctrine in the headlines, and just last year (2015) we welcomed his Scripture…
PIERCED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS: REDISCOVERING THE GLORY OF PENAL SUBSTITUTION, by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach – Excerpt
From chapter 2 What is penal substitution? If we are to determine whether penal substitution has a place within Christian theology, we must first sketch its basic contours. We began chapter 1 with the following definition: The doctrine of penal…
THE ENDURING AUTHORITY OF THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES, edited by D.A. Carson – Part 2
The definitive evangelical reference work on the nature and authority of the Bible. In this volume thirty-seven first-rate scholars present a thorough study of biblical authority and a full range of issues connected to it. Recognizing that Scripture and its…
Weekly Recap March 26, 2016
In honor of Jerry Bridges’ life and ministry, we posted summaries of two of his books this week. We also posted part one of our interview with the authors of Unchanging Witness, a book arguing that the church always and everywhere…
GOING PUBLIC: WHY BAPTISM IS REQUIRED FOR CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, by Bobby Jamieson
Bobby Jamieson has given us two new books on baptism. One brief, one book-length; both popular level. Understanding Baptism, as the title says, introduces the doctrine and practice of baptism in brief overview. Going Public covers some of the same…