Andy Naselli

Thoughts on Theology

Scenes from the Life of Christ

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I just enjoyed listening to “Scenes from the Life of Christ,” a creative, soothing, meditative CD composed and produced by Tom Howard and Ligonier Ministries.

Nine of the ten tracks begin with a Scripture reading from the ESV by a well-known Bible expositor and end with music reflecting the passage.

  1. The Annunciation | Scripture Reading by Alistair Begg (Luke 1:26–38)
  2. Feeding of the 5,000 | Scripture reading by D. A. Carson (John 6:1–15)
  3. Cleansing of the Temple | Scripture reading by John MacArthur (Mark 11:15–19)
  4. The Transfiguration | Scripture reading by Sinclair Ferguson (Luke 9:28–36)
  5. Temptation in the Wilderness | Scripture reading by R. C. Sproul (Matthew 4:1–11)
  6. Jesus, the Healer [no Scripture reading]
  7. The Raising of Lazarus | Scripture reading by John Piper (John 11:1–6, 17, 32–33, 38–44)
  8. Parable of the Shrewd Manager | Scripture reading by Albert Mohler (Luke 16:1–13)
  9. The Last Supper | Scripture reading by Ligon Duncan (Luke 22:14–23)
  10. Gethsemane | Scripture reading by Derek Thomas (Matthew 26:36–46)

You can listen to samples and view the CD-liner as a PDF. The inside part of the liner directly opposite the CD says this:

scenes

The Annunciation
Scripture Reading by Alistair Begg
Luke 1:26–38

Did Jesus Believe in the Bible’s Inerrancy?

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WTS Books just stocked this book:

John Wenham. Christ and the Bible. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994. Repr., Wipf and Stock, 2009.

Here’s what Mark Dever says about it in the last paragraph of his essay “Inerrancy of the Bible: An Annotated Bibliography“:

I’ve saved the best for last. If I could just recommend one book on the inerrancy of the Bible it would undoubtedly be this one—John Wenham, Christ and the Bible (Tyndale Press, 1972 [UK]; IVP, 1973 [US]). Wenham’s book has been through three editions and makes the simple point that our trust in Scripture is to be a part of our following Christ, because that is the way that He treated Scripture—as true, and therefore authoritative. (Robert Lightner, a professor of Systematic Theology at Dallas Seminary published a similar book a few years later, A Biblical Case for Total Inerrancy: How Jesus Viewed the Old Testament [Kregel, 1978].) Wenham had first put these ideas in print with a little Tyndale pamphlet in 1953 called Our Lord’s View of the Old Testament. In Christ and the Bible, Wenham, who taught Greek for many years at Oxford, an Anglican evangelical, has done us all a great service in providing us with a book which understands that we do not come by our adherence to Scripture fundamentally from the inductive resolutions of discrepancies, but from the teaching of the Lord Jesus. Only because of the Living Word may we finally know to trust the Written Word. May God use these resources of those who’ve gone before us to equip and encourage us in so trusting.

Dever concludes by giving Wenham his top recommendation:

To get up to speed on this issue, and to help you with your ministry, consider the following recommendations.

MUST READ: Wenham

SHOULD READ: Warfield, Packer’s “Fundamentalism” and the Word of God, Lindsell [The Battle for the Bible and The Bible in the Balance], any one of the edited volumes of your choosing!

Rod Decker on Hebrews 7-10

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New Testament scholar Rodney J. Decker presented a thoughtful paper yesterday at the second annual Council on Dispensational Hermeneutics:

“The Law, the New Covenant, and the Christian: Studies in Hebrew 7–10” (32-page PDF)

HT: Rod Decker

Decker

Related:

  1. “Second Dispensational Conference Meets” (a report by GARB’s Regular Baptist Press in The Baptist Bulletin)
  2. Photo gallery
http://www.baptistbulletin.org/?p=5104

Defending the Bible Is Like Defending a Lion

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authorityDavid Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Authority (Chicago: IVP, 1958), 41:

The authority of the Scriptures is not a matter to be defended, so much as to be asserted. I address this remark particularly to Conservative Evangelicals. I am reminded of what the great Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said in this connection: “There is no need for you to defend a lion when he is being attacked. All you need to do is to open the gate and let him out.” We need to remind ourselves frequently that it is the preaching and exposition of the Bible that really establish its truth and authority.