Archive for the 'Biblical Studies' Category
Michael D. Williams. Far As the Curse Is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption. P&R, 2005. 319 pp.
Most people—believers as well as non-Christians—cannot give a credible answer to the question “What is Christianity about?”
How do we account for this state of affairs? Given the life-and-death urgency of Christianity, we stand desperately in need of a reversal of the damning disparity between the eternal importance of the Christian faith and the apprehension of it by its advocates. Christianity is a revelatory religion. This means that God has revealed himself, his ways, and his will most clearly and fully in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Christianity is, therefore, a religion of the book. Thus, if believers do not understand the core issues of the Christian religion, it is because they fail to grasp or appreciate the Bible in some fundamental way.
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Wayne Grudem. Countering the Claims of Evangelical Feminism: Biblical Responses to the Key Questions. Multnomah, 2006. 284 pp.
Egalitarian Claim:
The New Testament writers urged the mutual submission of husbands and wives to one another (Ephesians 5:21). Therefore, there is no unique leadership role for the husband.
Ephesians 5:21 says, “submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.” Egalitarians say this verse teaches “mutual submission,” and that means that just as wives have to submit to their husbands, so husbands have to submit to their wives. Doesn’t the text say that we have to submit “to one another”? And this means that there is no unique submission that a wife owes to her husband, and no unique authority that a husband has over his wife. . . .
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John Piper. God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself. Crossway, 2005. 192 pp.
What the World Needs Most: The Gospel’s Greatest Gift—God
Today, as in every generation, it is stunning to watch the shift away from God as the all-satisfying gift of God’s love. It is stunning how seldom God himself is proclaimed as the greatest gift of the gospel. But the Bible teaches that the best and final gift of God’s love is the enjoyment of God’s beauty. “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple” (Ps. 27:4).
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Rolland McCune. Promise Unfulfilled: The Failed Strategy of Evangelicalism. Ambassador-Emerald, 2004. 398 pp.
Biblical Inspiration and Inerrancy
Concessions concerning inspiration and inerrancy, especially inerrancy, are where the principal departures of some new evangelicals lie and where the deviations are most visibly pronounced, and destructive. Non-evangelicals have been quick to notice the concessions. L. Harold DeWolf, a liberal from Boston University, in 1960 noted “revisions” in the “fundamentalist” view of inspiration, as did John B. Cobb and William Hordern (neo-orthodox).
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John MacArthur. The MacArthur Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, 2006. 2198 pp.
God’s Truth Is the Most Important Thing in the Universe.
Without Bible truth, no one ever becomes a Christian and no Christian ever grows. Pastor MacArthur relentlessly seeks Bible truth. He pores over every page of Scripture, explores every verse, digs into every difficult passage. He combines the exegetical skills of a world-class scholar with the wisdom and compassion of a seasoned pastor.
And faithfully for almost four decades he has presented the truth of the Bible to a world hungry for truth. His teaching and preaching ministries have unleashed God’s truth around the globe.
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Mark Dever. The Message of the New Testament: Promises Kept. Crossway, 2005. 560 pp.
Getting a Window Seat
Some things can be seen only from a great height. Go to the highest point in a city and what do you see? Sweeping vistas that both delight and inform.
That is what I hoped these “overview sermons” would do for my congregation, and what I hope they will do for you.
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Mike MacIntosh. Falling in Love With the Bible. Cook Communications, 2005. 224 pp.
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologian to swim in without ever touching the bottom. —St. Jerome
All of us—whether two years old or a hundred and two—should retain a sense of wonder, awe, and surprise about life. I think this was what Jesus was getting at when He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3 NKJV). He wants us to delight in Him as a child delights in each new discovery. . . .
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