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  • Praying The Bible

    How many of you all would say you have a dynamic, enjoyable prayer life? If you’re like me, it’s not really either one of those adjectives. Instead, it’s something you feel like you should do, but it’s not necessarily something you’re excited about. If you know me well, you know I’m not exactly an extrovert. I can…

  • Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on The New Testament (Logos Ed.)

    Long ago, in many times and many ways, I spoke to you about the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. As volume as have been released, I’ve posted about each one: James (ZECNT) Ephesians (ZECNT) Matthew (ZECNT) Galatians (ZECNT) Colossians/Philemon (ZECNT) 1 & 2 Thessalonians (ZECNT) Luke (ZECNT) Acts (ZECNT) 1, 2, 3 John (ZECNT)…

  • Saturate: Being Disciples of Jesus In The Everyday Stuff of Life

    Discipleship isn’t easy. It’s not rocket science either, but teaching people to observe everything Jesus commanded is no small task. It can be intimidating, even when both people are committed to the process. In other words, it takes commitment, and we live in a culture that chafes at the idea of signing a 2 year…

  • Fool’s Talk: Recovering The Art of Christian Persuasion

    I have a fairly long interest in apologetics. I’m not actually sure when it started, but the skeleton was taking shape by the time I left Bible school and was put to the test while I worked at Starbucks. The bones got meat put on them while I was in seminary, and I would eventually win…

  • The New NIV Zondervan Study Bible

    I’m a big ESV guy. Or at least that’s been the case since the mid-2000’s. My first actual Bible was probably NIV. My first real study Bible was MacArthur Study Bible in NKJV that my mom got me during my first year of college. The next study Bible was a Reformation Study Bible in ESV,…

  • Confessing The Faith: A Reader’s Guide to The Westminster Confession of Faith

    In my one of my classes this year, I’m planning on working through the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF). It’s 11th grade Bible, and it has been a systematic theology class since I started teaching it. I’ve used a variety of textbooks, just trying to find what works well. Last year, I settled on utilizing…

  • Did The Reformers Misread Paul? A Historical-Theological Critique of the New Perspective

    I was barely into my four years at Dallas Seminary when John Piper published The Future of Justification. For better or worse, that was my introduction to both the New Perspective on Paul and N. T. Wright. I say that because context is important and initially, my understanding of Wright was filtered through Piper and…

  • For The Love of God’s Word: An Introduction to Biblical Interpretation

    Because I spend a good bit of my time teaching the Bible, books on biblical interpretation always catch my eye. On my book review page, the “Hermeneutics” section gives you a good idea of volumes I’ve read in the past few years. One of those, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation, now has an abridged version. Although…

  • Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? Three Views on The Bible’s Earliest Chapters

    It is no secret at this point that I’m a fan of multi-view books. Scroll through my review page and you can see several titles from IVP’s Spectrum Multi-view series as well as Zondervan’s Counterpoints. Most recently I worked through Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither? Three Views on The Bible’s Earliest Chapters. The title is perhaps…

  • ZECNT: Logos Version of Galatians and Ephesians

    I have a complicated history with commentaries. It is somewhat reactionary at times. As an example, there was a time in seminary that I was almost militantly against using them. My thesis adviser wasn’t a big fan of them, especially in their modern iteration. I felt that if you knew the original languages well, commentaries were…