Recently I was in a Christian bookstore and I asked an employee if I could see their books on making disciples.
You know that feeling when you are shocked by something you were also expecting? Like you’re surprised but not surprised all at the same time?
That’s how I felt when the employee said he would [...]
Henri Blocher is a Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. His book: In the Beginning: The Opening Chapters of Genesis is both helpful and informative. It is academic, yet accessible to those of us who aren’t specialists. Blocher does a masterful job of explaining not only the purpose of Genesis, but also deftly maneuvers [...]
I’ve been thinking way too much the past few weeks. From Athanasius to Haddon Robinson to Jesus’ claims to deity I have been busy pumping out content for both seminary and my blog. I could certainly use a break and I think you probably could too. So, I thought I would share a few [...]
Many of my readers have read my post about the Christian fiction book from William Paul Young entitled The Shack. I appreciate all of your comments and questions about that post. This new post is in response to what Mike asked. He said.
Hey, can you give me a list of maybe 10 Christian nonfiction [...]
C. S. Lewis’ introduction to On the Incarnation by Athanasius might be the most important introduction to a book that I’ve ever read. Lewis first makes the case that reading old books are more important than reading new ones. If you can only have time to read an old book or a new one, [...]
I’ve been preaching for years but I am just now taking a seminary class on the subject and it has transformed the way I approach the preparation to preach. My professor is Haddon Robinson (one of the top ten most influential preachers according to Christianity Today. He wrote Biblical Preaching which is “Still the [...]
Last night my Bible study group had a great discussion from John 10. Since I’m working on translating Greek all day today for my Exegesis class, I thought I would take a few minutes and share what we talked about and invite you to join the conversation.
To begin with, we talked about how Jesus [...]
