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Nov 7, 2015

Kent Hughes Reflecting on 40 Years of Pastoral Ministry

See this blog interview with R. Kent Hughes reflecting on forty years of pastoral ministry.

Nov 6, 2015

Beale on the Garden of Eden as Temple

Although, Beale's book, The Temple and the Church’s Mission: A Biblical Theology of the Dwelling Place of God, has been out since 2004, Tony Reinke does a nice job summarizing Beale's argument that the Garden of Eden was the first and prototypical temple here.

Nov 5, 2015

Reading J. C. Ryle

Ben Roger's explains why seminarians should read J. C. Ryle here.

Nov 4, 2015

Recommended Resources on Exodus and the Decalogue

Timothy Raymond has a brief but good list of recommended resources for studying the book of Exodus and the Decalogue here and here.

HT: David Murray

Nov 3, 2015

NIVAC Commentaries on Sale

Zondervan has all volumes of the New International Version Application Commentaries on sale in the ebook format for $4.99 per volume or even a bit less if you buy the volumes in a bundle. For example, the Pentateuch bundle has four volumes for $17.99. To see what is available and links to purchase go here.

Nov 2, 2015

Free Audio: Sex & Money by Paul David Tripp

Christianaudio.com is offering a free audio download of Paul David Tripp's book Sex & Money here.

Nov 1, 2015

Free Logos Book for November: Ulrich Luz's Matthew 1-7

The free Logos Book for November is Ulrich Luz’s commentary on Matthew 1-7 in the Hermeneia series. You can also purchase Luz's commentary covering Matthew 8-20 in the same series for $1.99 and enter to win the entire sixty nine volume Hermeneia series. Go the Logos' Free Book of Month page here to enter and download your free book today!

Oct 30, 2015

Particle Board Preaching

Nicholas Batzig has a good post on what he calls "particle board preaching" here.

Oct 29, 2015

The Sin of Sodom

See this interesting discussion of Sodom's sin from a Jewish perspective.

Oct 28, 2015

Reading the Bible Devotionally in the Original Languages

Todd Scacewater offers five tips on reading the Bible devotionally in the original languages here.

Oct 27, 2015

How to Act Less Stupid

The Washington Post has an interesting article concerning how to act less stupid here. According to a recent psychological study discussed in the article, stupidity commonly involves three kinds of behavior. The first and highest level of stupidity involves "confident ignorance." This occurs "when a person's self-perceived ability to do something far outweighs that person's actual ability to do it." Second, "lack of control" "is when someone does something because they have, on some level, lost their ability to do otherwise." Finally, "absentmindedness — lack of practicality" occurs when people "weren't paying attention or simply weren't aware of something." The Bible would also indicate that stupidity has a spiritual component as well, either in rejecting the Lord or His wisdom.

Oct 26, 2015

Free Academic Articles Via Twitter?

According to this article in The Atlantic, there is a movement to gain access to academic "paywalled" articles via Twitter. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I understand that some of the fees for accessing articles are too high and often in biblical studies there is little if any financial reward for the fruits of one's research. On the other hand, this appears to be a blatant attempt to circumvent legal access and probably violates copyright laws. Thoughts?

Oct 25, 2015

Free Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, Aramaic Notes and Charts

Those interested in Semitics (e.g., Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, Aramaic) night want to check out my friend Steven Anderson's website here for free charts and notes.

Oct 24, 2015

Richard Bauckham Interview

Alvin Rapien has an interesting interview with Richard Bauckham here.

The Lecture and Teaching

Here is another article supporting the much-maligned lecture.

Oct 23, 2015

Whose Son is Zechariah in Zechariah 1:1?

Lee Fields has a good discussions here about Zechariah 1:1 and the tricky nature of relational terms like "father" and "son" in Hebrew.

Oct 22, 2015

ICC and Sacra Pagina on Sale at Logos

Logos has twelve volumes of the International Critical Commentary on sale for $1.99 and one volume from the Sacra Pagina series (The Gospel of Mark) for .99 cents here. Most of the ICC volumes are older volumes but does include several newer volumes (McKane's two volumes on Jeremiah and Best's Ephesians).

Paul on the Flesh in Galatians

Check out Mike Burer’s post, “Paul and Flesh: A Case for Theological Development here.

Oct 21, 2015

The New Southwestern School of Preaching

Dr. Paige Patterson just made the following exciting announcement.

Great happiness surges through my heart today as I announce that the trustees have just approved the creation of Southwestern’s seventh school – the School of Preaching. This provides Southwestern the ability to concentrate on teaching text-driven preaching at the PhD and DMIN levels. The school consists of seven full time faculty (all with PhD degrees and pastoral experience) possessing a combined 217 years of preaching experience. David Allen will serve as Dean and faculty members are Denny Autrey, Vern Charrette, Barry McCarty, Matthew McKellar, Stephen Smith, and Kyle Walker. There will be more detailed information coming out soon, but I wanted you to be one of the first to know.

Origen's Canonical Listing of the New Testament Books?

Michael Kruger has an interesting take on the earliest complete canonical list of the New Testament here. He argues that Origen (ca. 250) articulated a complete list of NT books in an allegorical reading of Joshua.