When I read this book on an airplane last fall, parts of it made me cry. All of it fired me up.
David Platt. Counter Culture: A Compassionate Call to Counter Culture in a World of Poverty, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism, Sex Slavery, Immigration, Persecution, Abortion, Orphans, and Pornography. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2015. 34-page sample PDF.
That’s not the title of Joe Rigney‘s next book, but it could be:
Joe Rigney. The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015.
The four men who have most influenced Joe’s thinking on this subject are Jonathan Edwards, John Piper, C. S. Lewis, and Doug Wilson. Wilson quipped a while back that Piper’s Christian hedonism could use a little more “beer and bacon.” Joe has fleshed that out, and this book is the result.
Check out the contents in this 48-page sample PDF, including a foreword by John Piper. I’m not sure I’ve read a more glowing foreword. [Read more…] about Beer and Bacon: Christian Hedonism 2.0
D. A. Carson addresses that very question in a chapter entitled “Sin’s Contemporary Significance” (free PDF).
He begins by distinguishing sin’s intrinsic and contemporary significance.
Here’s his argument: [Read more…] about Why Is Sin Significant Today?
I recently watched the two-hour forthcoming documentary Patterns of Evidence: Exodus. It’s outstanding.
(Jason DeRouchie, my Old Testament colleague, previewed it before I did and warmly recommended it to me.) [Read more…] about An Excellent Documentary on Exodus
Good interview. Well done, Fred and Doug.
Update on 3/31/2017: In my latest attempt to explain how to interpret and apply the Bible, I include a chapter on Bible translation (pp. 50–81).
Rich Penix (one of my Greek students about ten years ago) explains why he loved Dr. Mark Futato’s Logos-integrated approach to learning Hebrew.
Very good news: Today Logos Bible Software put their 30-volume C. S. Lewis Collection on pre-pub.
Coming soon.
Recommendation: Pre-order it now. (1) You’ll lock in a better price, and (2) it will help the collection release sooner.
This 2-minute video explains how Logos pre-pub works:
Update (3/23/2015): I’ve added this new collection to my Logos library, and I just added each book one by one to my Zotero library. Love it.
Even if you already own some or all of these volumes in print or another format, you should seriously consider getting them for Logos. Its powerful search engine, specialized resource tagging, multi-platform apps and syncing, integration into an interconnected digital library, and notes and highlighting tools add significant value to the content.
Learn more here and in this video:
On sale from Logos: 1 Corinthians Christmas Collections (59 vols.)
I just added it to my library. I already had 25 of the resources in my library (20 in Logos and 5 in other formats). So 34 of the resources are new to my library. Glad to add them.