Free Audio of the Mid-America Conference on Preaching

  
You can access free audio of the Mid-America Conference on Preaching here. This year's theme was “The Mystery of Christ: God’s Glory among the Gentiles.” There are links to the audio of all the general sessions and workshops and printed notes.

HT: Bill Combs
  

Latest Issue of Review of Biblical Literature

  
The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below.

Jo-Ann A. Brant
John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8340
Reviewed by Matthew Gordley
 
Bart B. Bruehler
A Public and Political Christ: The Social-Spatial Characteristics of Luke 18:35-19:43 and the Gospel as a Whole in Its Ancient Context
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8359
Reviewed by John Cowan
 
Jaime Clark-Soles
Engaging the Word: The New Testament and the Christian Believer
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7979
Reviewed by Ronald Witherup
 
Gerald J. Donker
The Text of the Apostolos in Athanasius of Alexandria
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8185
Reviewed by Justin A. Mihoc
 
Craig A. Evans
Jesus and His World: The Archaeological Evidence
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8492
Reviewed by Panayotis Coutsoumpos
 
Heinz-Josef Fabry and Ulrich Dahmen, eds.
Theologisches Wörterbuch zu den Qumrantexten
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8322
Reviewed by Johann Cook
 
Gard Granerød
Abraham and Melchizedek: Scribal Activity of Second Temple Times in Genesis 14 and Psalm 110
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8257
Reviewed by Albert Hogeterp
 
Charles W. Hedrick
Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel according to Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8459
Reviewed by William Arnal
 
Josep Rius-Camps and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison with the Alexandrian Tradition, Volume 4: Acts 18.24-28.31: Rome
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7555
Reviewed by Vaughn CroweTipton
 
Christopher D. Stanley, ed.
The Colonized Apostle: Paul in Postcolonial Eyes
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8182
Reviewed by Steed Davidson

 

When Churches Face Foreclosure

This is an interesting article related to the challenges from the lender's side to foreclose on a church.
 

Dispensational Understanding of the New Covenant

  
Dispensational Understanding of the New Covenant, a book edited by Mike Stallard is now out. Here is the publishers description.

How should we understand the Bible's teaching about the new covenant? Scholars and theologians have debated this question for centuries without reaching a consensus. The three views in this book are all unified by a single idea: God will make His new covenant with Israel, not the church. Referring to papers first presented at the 2009 Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics, the authors discuss three ideas within traditional dispensationalism:

• the church is in some way a party to the new covenant,
• the church shares similar blessings to the new covenant, or
• the church has nothing at all to do with the new covenant.

Each viewpoint is supported by extensive theological, historical, and exegetical research, with responses and rejoinders for each view.

A 37-page sample is available as a PDF here. You can order the book from the publisher here and Amazon has one copy available here.
   

Some Advice for Seminarians

  
Tim Gombis has some good practical advice here for seminarians who are serving in churches.
 

Academic Humor

  
Having done a fair amount of grading at the Bible college and seminary level, I kind of wish I would have kept records like David Miller has here.