Category: Book Bites
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God Is Love: The Mystery of The Trinity
This week we only went through one chapter of God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. Part of that is because of the testing schedule, and the other part is because it is the opening chapter on the Trinity. Bray avoids getting too technical, but it is a bit of a more taxing discussion than…
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God Is Love: The Practice of Theology and Theology and Faith
I think we’ve settled into a rhythm with our trek through God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. I’ll probably have to reduce the quotes that I share to keep these posts reasonable, especially since the next section is on the Trinity. For these two chapters, here are my take-aways. The Practice of Theology The…
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Building A Theological Library: Prison and Pastorals
Several weeks ago, we covered the first part of Paul’s Letters: Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Thessalonians. Just to reiterate, these are my preferences and what make up my library (for the most part). There are definitely some great resources I’ve overlooked. What I’m trying to do here is give you what I typically look for, and in the…
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God Is Love: Christian Worldview and Speaking About God
Chapters 3 and 4 in Gerald Bray’s God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology are together shorter than chapter 2. So, I’ve combined highlights. From here on out, the students are reading about 2 chapters a week, so I’ll post my highlights on Fridays (since we cover one chapter Tuesday and the other Friday). Here’s what…
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God Is Love: God Has Spoken To Us
I had hoped to get this posted yesterday, but alas, more pressing matters were at hand. This chapter of God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology is a bit longer than the first (see last week’s post) and covers everything from general revelation to interpreting the Bible. The headings below are most of the headings in…
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Building A Theological Library: Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Thessalonians
Several weeks ago, we covered the Gospels and Acts in the New Testament portion of the Building A Theological Library series. Just to reiterate, these are my preferences and what make up my library (for the most part). There are definitely some great resources I’ve overlooked. What I’m trying to do here is give you what…
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God Is Love: The Christian Experience of God
A while back, I offered you a full review of Gerald Bray’s God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. In the interim, I decided to make it the textbook for my 11th grade Bible class which is a theology class. This week, we’re starting our formal trek through it. Students are highlighting 3 or…
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Preaching To A Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect With Our Culture
Recently, I finished working my way through Zack Eswine’s Preaching To A Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect With Our Culture. Though I don’t preach regularly, I found this book useful for my teaching and it will definitely impact how I prepare future messages when I do preach. Also, because I work with Docent…
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Matthew (ZECNT)
As I mentioned a couple weeks back, I want to start rolling out more preview-type reviews. I’ve got several larger volumes that I am actually putting to use in classroom prep and thought it apt to preview them for you. One such volume is Grant Osborne’s Matthew commentary in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the…
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What J. I. Packer Dreams About
Before you get too excited, I can’t claim to know comprehensively what J. I. Packer dreams about.[ref]That would be super creepy, and even if I could, I probably wouldn’t share it[/ref] But I can relay to you something he specifically said he dreams about (in either a daydream sort of way, or a metaphorical way).…