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  • Building A Theological Library: New Testament Commentaries

    Several months back, almost 6 to be precise, I finished up a series on building a theological library focused on Old Testament commentaries. I had meant to carry right on to the New, but one thing lead to another, and well here we are picking up the NT many months later. Much like I did…

  • Preaching The New Testament

    Back in February I think it was, I retweeted a link to a new collection of essays from IVP Academic called Preaching The New Testament. A few weeks later I was surprised to find a copy in my mailbox, but that’s just how awesome Adrianna Wright is over at IVP.[ref]She can almost read my mind when it comes…

  • Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God’s Word and Keep People Awake

    Both Gary Millar and Phil Campbell are stationed at Queensland Theological College in Brisbane, Australia. Millar is a Northern Irish transplant, and Campbell could be a native for all I know.[ref]The blurbs on the back of the book do not specify Phil’s point of origin like they do for Gary. After reading the book though,…

  • Interpreting The Pauline Letters: An Exegetical Handbook

    John D. Harvey is Professor of New Testament and Dean of the Seminary & School of Ministry at Columbia International University. He has written several books and is not only the author of the book at hand, Interpreting the Pauline Letters: An Exegetical Handbook, but serves as the NT series editor. Future titles will include…

  • 40 Questions About Interpreting the Bible

    Way back in January, I reviewed Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours. The book was edited by Robert Plummer and John Mark Terry, the former of whom got in touch with me over Facebook and offered me the opportunity to review his other book, 40 Questions About Interpreting the Bible. I already had a…

  • Reverse Systematic Theology: A Proposal

    Something I don’t do as often anymore, but would like to change, is offer you thoughts in process. I think that’s kind of a big part of blogging. I used to use the blog to think out loud more frequently, but that was in its MySpace and Xanga iterations. I think in seminary I felt…

  • Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers & Skeptics Find Faith

    Alister McGrath is professor of theology, ministry, and education and head of the Centre for Theology, Religion, and Culture at King’s College, London, and president of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. He’s written more books than I care to list here, but this is actually the second recently published book of his that I’ve…

  • How To Have A Better Day Off

    A few Mondays ago, I decided to put together a little tutorial on how to have a great day off. Today seems like a good day to offer a Twitter tutorial on how to have refreshing day off. Step #1: Get up early #HowToMakeADayOff — Nate Claiborne (@nateclaiborne) February 4, 2013 Mondays have typically been…

  • Building A Theological Library: Old Testament Commentaries

    Looking back over the completed list of my recommendations on Old Testament commentaries, you may notice some patterns. If you haven’t looked, here’s the list of posts: Overview Old Testament Backgrounds The Pentateuch The Former Prophets  The Latter Prophets The Writings In the Old Testament Backgrounds I gave you a brief commentary survey, but I wanted to…

  • Building A Theological Library: The Writings

    Last week, we looked at my commentary recommendations on the Latter Prophets. Today, we’ll move on to the Writings, which is essentially the wisdom literature plus what didn’t fit in the prophets. If you’re keeping score, that means we’re looking at not only Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon (the wisdom literature), but also…