Gerald Hiestand convincingly argues that the answer is yes:
Gerald Hiestand, “A Biblical-Theological Approach to Premarital Sexual Ethics: or, What Saint Paul Would Say about ‘Making Out,’” Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology 1 (2014): 13–32.
This article expands on the first two chapters in Gerald Hiestand and Jay Thomas, Sex, Dating, and Relationships: A Fresh Approach (Wheaton: Crossway, 2012).
Here’s the article’s thesis: [Read more…] about Is It Sinful for Unmarried Couples to Make Out?
The latest episode of the edifying and motivating Dispatches from the Front DVD Series released last month: Day of Battle 
. It is set in North Africa.
Related: Stories of Gospel Advance in the World’s Difficult Places
Tomorrow begins what I hope will be many meetings with my four new seminary mentees. They are each in year three of our four-year MDiv-program at Bethlehem College & Seminary. Among other things we’re planning to work through many of the letters in this book:
D. A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge. Letters Along the Way: A Novel of the Christian Life. Wheaton: Crossway, 1993.
I briefly reviewed this book in 2006 after Jenni and I read it together, and I reread it earlier this month. It’s packed with wisdom. So edifying. [Read more…] about A Resource for Mentoring Seminary Students: Advice from Don Carson and John Woodbridge
Here are links to 20 interviews I’ve conducted over the last six years (mostly for my friend Justin Taylor’s blog):
“David Helm has written the most helpful, concise, and useful book on expository preaching I have ever read.”
–Matt Chandler
David Helm. Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today. 9Marks. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014. 38-page PDF sample.
7 excerpts: [Read more…] about Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God’s Word Today
This book collects some short articles by John Frame:
John M. Frame. John Frame’s Selected Shorter Writings: Volume One. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2014. [Read more…] about John Frame’s Selected Shorter Writings
John MacArthur. The Glory of Heaven: The Truth about Heaven, Angels, and Eternal Life; With New Material Addressing the Current Debate and Issues. 2nd ed. Wheaton: Crossway, 2013.
One of the most talked-about books of 2011 was Heaven Is for Real, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. The book recounts four-year-old Colton Burpo’s vision of heaven (as told by his father to Ms. Vincent). Colton claims he visited heaven during surgery a!er a burst appendix nearly took his life. His stories of heaven are full of fanciful features and peculiar details that bear all the earmarks of a child’s vivid imagination. There’s nothing transcendent or even particularly enlightening about Colton’s description of heaven. In fact, it is completely devoid of the breathtaking glory featured in every biblical description of the heavenly realm. That doesn’t deter Todd Burpo from singling out selective phrases and proof texts from Scripture, citing them as if they authenticated his son’s account. (p. 14) [Read more…] about John MacArthur on Died-and-went-to-heaven-and-back Books