This book is a sure-footed guide:
Schreiner, Thomas R. Faith Alone—the Doctrine of Justification: What the Reformers Taught and Why It Matters. The Five Solas. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015.
Three chapters were highlights for me:
Two good interviews:
This book just released:
Andrew David Naselli and J. D. Crowley. Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016. 
I am grateful to J. D. Crowley for coauthoring this book with me. His rich wisdom and life experience will serve readers in a way that I can’t. He has spent most of his life in Asian cultures, and he is a veteran missionary. [Read more…] about Conscience: What It Is, How to Train It, and Loving Those Who Differ
This book just released:
Stephen J. Wellum and Brent E. Parker, eds. Progressive Covenantalism: Charting a Course between Dispensational and Covenant Theologies. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2016.
My endorsement:
These ten essays exegetically and theologically support the argument that Steve Wellum and Peter Gentry present in Kingdom through Covenant (2012). Unlike covenant theology, progressive covenantalism argues that the genealogical principle (a basis for infant baptism) significantly changes across redemptive history. Unlike dispensationalism, progressive covenantalism understands the land not ultimately as Canaan but as a type of the new creation. This book is now required reading for my biblical theology courses.
7-minute interview with Steve Wellum:
Related: Fred Zaspel interviews Steve Wellum about this book.
The latest episode of the edifying and motivating Dispatches from the Front DVD Series just released: Every Tribe 
.
The latest episode is set in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, and it features my dear friends Tim Keesee and J. D. Crowley. (J. D. and I recently coauthored the book Conscience.)
[Read more…] about Every Tribe: Episode 9 (Cambodia, Laos, & Vietnam) of Dispatches from the Front
If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for President of the United States, can you vote for him with a clear conscience? This election cycle may force conservatives—especially religious, social conservatives—to answer that question.
Here’s how I am currently thinking through that question as an evangelical theology professor who just coauthored a book on the conscience and the Christian. To answer the question, you first need to consider three other questions. [Read more…] about Can You Vote for Donald Trump with a Clear Conscience?
I recently finished reading about 3,200 letters that C. S. Lewis wrote:
C. S. Lewis. The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis. Edited by Walter Hooper. 3 vols. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2004–2007. 4,064 pp.
Volume 1: Family Letters, 1905–1931 (1072 pp.)
Volume 2: Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931–1949 (1152 pp.)
Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950–1963 (1840 pp.)
Highly recommended. What a delightful, insightful man. [Read more…] about The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis
This is the most thoughtful and persuasive case for congregationalism that I know of:
Jonathan Leeman. Don’t Fire Your Church Members: The Case for Congregationalism. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2016.
What distinguishes different views on how to govern the church is who has final authority:
While godly, mature Christians disagree on which model is most biblical, I think the most biblical polity is elder-led and congregation-ruled. That model is very different from a modern democracy in which leaders represent the people and the people make demands on the leaders with the threat that they will vote them out of office; it is more like a combination of three models: [Read more…] about The Case for Congregationalism
I think Doug Wilson wins this three-way debate: “Should Churches Display the American Flag in Their Sanctuaries?” Christianity Today 56, no. 7 (2012): 82.
(Direct links to CT often don’t work unless you subscribe to CT. If that’s the case for you for the above link, just Google the title to view the whole article.)
The last line of Doug Wilson’s little essay still makes me grin:
This is why, in my ideal scenario, the elders who vote in session to remove the American flag from the sanctuary should all have that same flag on their pickup trucks, right next to the gun rack.