It’s Awesome, Part I
I played a little soccer back in high school. Before that I was in competitive swimming. But during college and seminary years I lost just about all contact with sports. …
Stephen Nichols
Johnny Cash on Commentaries
Maybe you know or don’t know that Cash wrote a biography of Paul, called The Man in White. I came across a great line in the introduction as Cash recalls the research he…
Yes, the Puritans Were Right: Or, Thank You, Mark Deckard
If you haven’t picked up the new book by Mark Deckard, Helpful Truth in Past Places: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Counseling (Christian Focus), then you need to. Mark’s a…
Dispatch from Wheaton
I just returned from the Wheaton Theology Conference, all focused on a dialog with N. T. Wright. Out of the gate, Richard Hayes surprised everyone by letting a few salvos…
New Edwards book
Yale University Press has just released Jonathan Edwards’s “Sinners in Hands of an Angry God”: A Casebook, edited by Wilson Kimnach, Caleb Maskell, and Ken Minkema. The book has a great…
Congratulations to Phil
This is certainly good news for Wheaton and good news for Phil. Perhaps the only folks for whom this isn’t good news is the congregation at Tenth in Philadelphia, as…
Justin Taylor Is Cool
So here I am thumbing through my latest copy of Paste catching up on the latest Indie and post funk metal ska offerings and there it is: “Justin Taylor’s first short story…
MDB 30: Gen 45 & Job 12
These two chapters make an interesting juxtaposition. Joseph is well out of the pit, literally and figuratively. He and the reader now have a new perspective on the trials he…
MDB 29: Mark 14
In these various episodes just before the crucifixion, the disciples prove faithless in Jesus’ final hour. First, we see the unnamed disciples who “indignantly” scold the woman who anoints Jesus (14:3-9).…
MDB 28: Romans 13
Always an intriguing chapter, Romans 13 challenges us all in the way we relate to government and to the state. We need to remind ourselves of the government in place over…