Tom Schreiner and Shawn Wright have done the church an excellent service by co-editing a volume called Believer's Baptism: Sign of the New Covenant in Christ with Broadman and Holman. The book's description (from Amazon): Is believer's baptism the clear teaching of the New Testament Scriptures? What are the historical and theological challenges to believer's baptism? What are the practical applications for believer's baptism today? Volume two in the NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY STUDIES IN BIBLE & THEOLOGY (NACSBT) series for pastors, advanced Bible students, and other deeply committed laypersons … [Read more...] about Believer’s Baptism – Schreiner and Wright
Archives for 2007
Joe Carter Reviews With One Voice
Joe Carter writes this gracious review of With One Voice (which is summarized here): "In With One Voice: Singleness, Dating and Marriage to the Glory of God, Alex and Marni Chediak provide the ultimate answer: It is more important to become a certain type of person than it is to find a certain type of boyfriend/girlfriend. 'What are you doing to become the sort of person who would be winsome and attractive to the kind of person you want to marry?' (p. 45) Such candid questions and refreshing candor is the hallmark of this superb book on dating and marriage. It is filled with advice that is … [Read more...] about Joe Carter Reviews With One Voice
William Wilberforce – book by John Piper
John Piper's short biography on William Wilberforce is available January 29 as a softcover book and immediately as a free PDF. Speaking of Wilberforce, Piper notes: "He believed with all his heart that new affections for God were the key to new morals (or manners, as they were sometimes called) and lasting political reformation. And these new affections and this reformation did not come from mere ethical systems. They came from what he called the "peculiar doctrines" of Christianity. For Wilberforce, practical deeds were born in "peculiar doctrines." By that term he simply meant the central … [Read more...] about William Wilberforce – book by John Piper
Response to Peter Masters’ Critique of Desiring God
One of the courses in The Bethlehem Institute is called Practical Theology: The Pursuit of God in All of Life. It consists of a series of seminars by Pastor John Piper on the following topics: Future Grace; Why We Believe the Bible; TULIP; Sexual Complementarity; Biblical Eldership; Desiring God; Corporate Worship; Prayer, Meditation and Fasting; and Suffering. On some of these topics, Piper has written full-length books for a mainstream audience. On others, he has only written shorter booklets available at Bethlehem Baptist Church via Desiring God ministries.For each of these seminars, … [Read more...] about Response to Peter Masters’ Critique of Desiring God
Nancy Pelosi and the “Marble Ceiling”
Carol Platt Liebau reflects on Speaker Pelosi's accomplishment, while putting the matter in perspective. The irony of Pelosi's … [Read more...] about Nancy Pelosi and the “Marble Ceiling”
The Folly of Evil
This year I am listening to and reading the Bible with The One Year ESV Bible. This morning I was struck with the description of the fruit of the wicked in Psalm 7:14-16: "Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends." Surely he did not intend to fall in the hole that he made, but the pursuit of pleasure in sin always reaps far more pain than originally anticipated. From a short-term … [Read more...] about The Folly of Evil