“If you only have time for one Christology,” says Jonathan Leeman, “start here. I commend it without reservation.”
Stephen J. Wellum. God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ. Foundations of Evangelical Theology. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016.
Here’s what Don Carson says about it: [Read more…] about God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ
I benefitted from carefully reading this book:
Timothy Keller. Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical. New York: Viking, 2016.
It’s a prequel to Keller’s The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, a New York Times best seller and the modern version of C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.
To learn why Keller wrote this prequel, read Matt Smethurst’s interview with Keller.
Then read Andrew Wilson’s review.
Then watch the talk Keller gave to employees of Google: [Read more…] about Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical
Here are 11 top posts from 2016:
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In 2006 I compiled all of D. A. Carson’s MP3s I could find.
In 2009 I organized a comprehensive collection of Carson’s MP3s for The Gospel Coalition to host.
Logos Bible Software just took that a step further with the D. A. Carson Sermon Archive by transcribing each sermon. Outstanding.
The Bible Project is brilliant. Tim Mackie and Jon Collins creatively summarize the the message of each book of the Bible (and some themes in the Bible) remarkably well. I quibble with some minor aspects of the videos, but overall they’re ingenious. They are so accessible that I have watched all of them with my children, and they are so thoughtful that I show some of them to my graduate students in the classroom.
Here are the videos summarizing each book of the Bible: [Read more…] about Short Animated Videos That Summarize Each Book of the Bible
This book opened my eyes to how social media emotionally crushes so many people:
Donna Freitas, The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
Freitas is a sociologist who previously wrote a book on the hookup culture among college students. The more she researched college students, the more she realized how social media is sucking happiness out of them. [Read more…] about Social Media Can Make You Unhappy While Pressuring You to Always Appear Happy
That’s the title of my article (PDF | web version) for the latest issue of Themelios.
From the introduction:
My goal is to motivate you to say no to pornography by God’s grace. This article does not comprehensively address how to deal with pornography. Other resources do that well, and I recommend several of them below. My burden in this article is to motivate you not to indulge in pornography. I am particularly burdened to motivate people who habitually indulge in pornography and who are not killing their sin of lust. If that describes you, then this article is a way of metaphorically taking you firmly by the shoulders, looking you directly in the eyes, and soberly warning you, “Wake up! Do you realize what the consequences are for indulging in pornography?!”
I argue that you should not indulge in pornography for at least seven reasons:
1. It will send you to hell.
2. It does not glorify God with your body.
3. It is a poisonous, fleeting pleasure. [Read more…] about Seven Reasons You Should Not Indulge in Pornography
Two resources helped me answer that question when I was in high school and college:
George suggests four criteria for evaluating whether God has called you to serve as a pastor, and you can remember them with the acrostic CALL: [Read more…] about Has God Called You to Vocational Christian Ministry?