My responsibility as a professor at Bethlehem College & Seminary includes training elder-qualified men in our seminary. What does it mean to be elder-qualified?
Jeramie Rinne answers that question with six statements in Church Elders: How to Shepherd God’s People Like Jesus (9Marks; Wheaton: Crossway, 2014), 19–29.
You know you’re qualified to serve as an elder if . . . [Read more…] about How Do You Know If You’re Qualified to Serve As an Elder?
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
Update in April 2022: Crossway released a second edition of this book:
Carson, D. A., and John D. Woodbridge. Letters Along the Way: From a Senior Saint to a Junior Saint. 2nd ed. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022.
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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