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The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation

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This sounds like a fantastic book, from a wonderful Hebrew professor. While reading this book John Piper tweeted "I feel like a greedy miser over a chest of gold." He went on to say: To all pastors and serious readers of the Old Testament—geek, uber geek, under geek, no geek—if you graduated from high school and know the word “m e a n i n g,” sell your latest Piper or Driscoll book and buy Sailhamer. There is nothing like it. It will rock your world. You will never read the “Pentateuch” the same again. It is totally readable. You can skip all the footnotes and not miss a beat. That's … [Read more...] about The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation

CT Interview with Michael Horton

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Mark Galli of Christianity Today interviews Michael Horton about his pair of books, Christless Christianity and The Gospel-Driven Life (both with Baker). Their first interaction: What is at the core of the temptation to practice a Christless Christianity? When the emphasis becomes human-centered rather than God-centered. In more conservative contexts, you hear it as exhortation: "These are God's commandments. The culture is slipping away from us. We have to recover it, and you play a role. Is your life matching up to what God calls us to?" Of course there is a place for that, but it seems to … [Read more...] about CT Interview with Michael Horton

Generational Investment in the SBC

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Owen Strachan quotes Walter Price from a recent address given at the California Southern Baptist Convention:I am not here today to claim the demise of the CSBC. It hasn’t happened…yet. What I am here to say is, ‘There’s an iceberg off the starboard bow and we better wake up.’ What is the iceberg? You already know. You saw it yourselves when I asked you to stand by age groups. The time has come for someone to sound the alarm. I do not purport to speak for the younger generation. They are eloquent in speaking for themselves. But the signs that I see are not encouraging. For all intents and … [Read more...] about Generational Investment in the SBC

Does God Really Want All People To Be Saved?

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R.C. Sproul responds to a question submitted by Mark Driscoll on behalf of a Facebook user (part 2 of an interview, see part 1). Sproul distinguishes between various aspects of the will of God: "Even though God is committed to justice (and judgment), he doesn't get his jollies by subjecting people to punishment, like a sadistic tyrant would. The disposition of God is one of lovingkindness, but that lovingkindness doesn't annul his concern for righteousness." … [Read more...] about Does God Really Want All People To Be Saved?

The New Shape of World Christianity

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In a must-read for missiologists, church planters, and Christians seeking a deep understanding of how the church intersects with history, not to mention where we are going, Mark Noll sums up and analyzes the magnitude of recent changes in world Christianity in The New Shape of World Christianity: How American Experience Reflects Global Faith (IVP Academic, 2009). A few highlights (from p. 19): 1. There might be more Christians in China than all of "Christian Europe" (which, I'd add, has been sliding toward secularism and Islam for years). 2. There are more Anglicans any one of several African … [Read more...] about The New Shape of World Christianity