Category Reformation21

Linguist and biblical scholar James Barr died on Saturday at the age of 82. Barr was the author of a famous volume on The Semantics of Biblical Language Obituaries: Times of London Vanderbilt University (HT: Denny Burk)

The fall issue of Southern Seminary’s magazine opens with a manifesto from Al Mohler on “The State of Preaching Today.”  In his indictment of contemporary trends, Mohler mentions five critical areas of concern: 1. A loss of confidence in the power…

Reading through some other people’s lists has reminded me of a few books I should have included.  Under the category of the books that were the most influential, both the Prayer of Jabez and Left Behind both deserve serious consideration. …

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online is now available for use in a Public Beta phase. After thousands of hours of use, loads of email feedback from our initial Closed Beta team, and a great deal of internal QA testing, we are…

Tell us, Lig — enquiring minds want to know: who does your quote about the Word of God come from?  I’ll guess Charles Spurgeon, but not with a lot of confidence.

Special thanks to Rick Phillips for calling me middle-aged.  In my view, middle age begins at 50, a milestone I feel confident Rick will reach before me.  Typically I only comment on my age when my birthday falls on a Sunday, which…

I recently asked some friends to give me their thoughts on the top ten books that should have been most influential in the past 50 years and that were the most influential in the past 50 years. (A number of…

Our editor has not gotten much response on his querry for our list of the most influential books of the last fifty years.  Perhaps he forgot that only he is qualified to speak on the subject with personal authenticity… However,…

Thanks, Phil, for passing on those comments about the incarnation and impassibility, and Derek for those excellent quotes.  Too often, impassibility is taken to mean that God feels nothing — those quotes were quite the antidote. In support of Phil’s comments,…

The word of God is not for sale; and therefore it has no need of shrewd salesman. The word of God is not seeking patrons; therefore it refuses price cutting and bargaining; therefore it has no need of middlemen. The…