Last month I interviewed Champ Thornton about his children’s book God’s Love: A Bible Storybook.
Now the book is available as an iPad app.
Features include
It’s well-done. [Read more…] about iPad App for Champ Thornton’s God’s Love: A Bible Storybook
An excellent new book from B&H:
John S. Hammett and Benjamin L. Merkle, eds. Those Who Must Give an Account: A Study of Church Membership and Church Discipline. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2012. 239 pp.
Here’s what Darrin Patrick says about it: [Read more…] about A Study of Church Membership and Church Discipline
I got double-Klucked last week:
Chicago: Moody, 2009. 154 pp. 13-page sample PDF.
When I saw Ted’s blog post about Beauty and the Mark of the Beast, I thought it was a spoof.
It’s not a spoof. Clarification: Ted and company really did write a “dispen-sensational thriller” about Tim Tebow (err, “Ted Strongbow”). The book, however, is a spoof. It’s crazy. [Read more…] about The Reason for Sports and a Dispen-sensational Thriller
Jonathan Leeman, “Appendix: Mistakes Pastors Make in Practicing Discipline,” Church Discipline: How the Church Protects the Name of Jesus (9Marks; Wheaton: Crossway, 2012), 139–40:
Pastors sometimes make the following mistakes regarding formal church discipline.
- They fail to teach their congregation what church discipline is and why they should practice it.
- They fail to practice meaningful membership, which includes (1) teaching people what membership entails before they join; (2) encouraging casual attenders to join; (3) carefully interviewing everyone who wants to join; (4) giving regular oversight to all the flock; and (5) maintaining an up-to-date membership list that accurately reflects who is present at the weekly gathering. [Read more…] about 22 Mistakes Pastors Make in Practicing Church Discipline
This blog is now much better organized:
- Exegesis. What did authors intend their texts to mean? This includes hermeneutics. (Hermeneutics concerns principles of interpretation, and exegesis applies those principles.)
- Biblical Theology. How has God revealed his word historically and organically?
- Historical Theology. What have people thought about exegesis and theology?
- Systematic Theology. What does the whole Bible teach about certain topics? What is true about God and his universe?
- Practical Theology. How should humans respond to God’s revelation? This includes, for example, culture, ethics, evangelism, marriage and family, money, pastoral theology, politics, and worship.
- Other. This covers what doesn’t fit in the above categories.
My blog is called “Thoughts on Theology,” so those seem like the right categories. [Read more…] about Exegesis, Biblical Theology, Historical Theology, Systematic Theology, and Practical Theology: What the Categories on My Blog Mean
This is the top book I’d recommend to a lay person on church membership:
Jonathan Leeman. Church Membership: How the World Knows Who Represents Jesus. 9Marks. Wheaton: Crossway, 2012. 142 pp. 28-page sample PDF.
Some excerpts: [Read more…] about An Accessible Book on Church Membership
If you follow my blog via email or Twitter, then you haven’t been receiving automatic updates since June 12. (If you subscribe via the RSS feed, then you shouldn’t have experienced a problem.) On June 12, I somehow included an unsupported character in a blog post that broke the feed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Many thanks to my webmaster, Phil Gons, for figuring this out and in the process redesigning the site with a new theme.
Here are links to the eleven blog posts I published between June 12 and July 6 (#10 is my favorite):
The current issue of Tabletalk is on “Drawing the Line: Why Doctrine Matters.”
These two articles are particularly worth reading:
DeYoung suggests and explains “seven steps we ought to pursue in establishing doctrinal boundaries”: [Read more…] about Why, Where, and How Do We Draw the Line?