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A Flexible Bible Reading Plan for 2013
With the all the potential reading plans you could adopt in 2013, the most important thing is to have a good Bible reading plan in place. I’ve seen several options present themselves. As usual, Justin Taylor’s is the most comprehensive and includes several different options. For an intriguing approach that utilizes listening and reading, see Joseph…
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The 72 Books I Reviewed In 2012
Last year, I listed out (to the best of my memory) every book I read in 2011. I think the overall total was 116 or so, and I’m sure I got close to that again this year. However, I started tracking what I read in GoodReads and so have one less running list going through…
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Zondervan Counterpoints eBook Sale: Everything Under $7
Because you’ve probably got Christmas money that needs to be put to use, Zondervan has all of their Counterpoints series on Kindle for under $7: Four Views on Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?: 4 Views Five Views on Law and Gospel Three Views on the Millennium and Beyond Three…
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Devotions On The Greek New Testament
J. Scott Duvall & Verlyn Verbrugge have done Bible geeks everywhere a favor. They managed to get scholars like Scot McKnight, Craig Blomberg, Bill Mounce, Darrell Bock, Ben Witherington III, Mark Strauss, Constantine Campbell, and several others to write devotionals on 52 short passages from the Greek New Testament. Not just that, but these devotionals…
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The Man Jesus Christ: Theological Reflections on The Humanity of Christ
Bruce Ware, The Man Jesus Christ: Theological Reflections on The Humanity of Christ. Wheaton: Crossway, November, 2012. 160 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Crossway for the electronic review copy! Bruce Ware is professor of Christian theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Though I’m really familiar with his name, this is actually the first book I’ve…
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The 12 Books I Planned To Read in 2012 And The Lesson Learned
About a year ago, I let you know about 12 books I planned to read in 2012. All of them were rather substantial 500+ page works, and in hindsight, it was a bit aggressive to plan so far in advance. In case you forgot the original list, here it is again: The Theology of Jonathan…
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The Top 12 Posts of 2012
Tuesday, I shared the 12 best books I read in 2012. As the year winds down, it seems about the right time to share what the 12 top posts of 2012 were. After screening out static pages and pages that were clearly being accessed by my students for class materials, here’s what was most visited:…
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Kingdom Through Covenant: A Review
Authors Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum are professor of Old Testament Interpretation and Christian theology respectively, at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In tag team sort of affair, Wellum authored parts 1 and 3 of the Kingdom Through Covenant, while Gentry filled in the gap by authoring part 2. While they speak with…
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The 12 Best Books I Read In 2012
In case you haven’t been paying attention, I’ve done quite a bit of reading this past year. Just how much, you might ask. Well, unlike last year, I didn’t put together a comprehensive list. I did however, pick my 12 favorite reads. I’ve seen some other lists floating around online (like here, here, and here), but my list…
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Paul and Union With Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study
Constantine R. Campbell is a senior lecturer in Greek and New Testament at Moore Theological College. He brings a very strong Greek background to this study of Paul as you can see from his previous publications (like Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative (Studies in Biblical Greek) and Verbal Aspect and Non-Indicative Verbs (Studies in Biblical Greek) as…
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