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Noteworthy Links: Early Baptists and Anabaptists

Follow My friend Steve Weaver has written a helpful post titled “Are We Entering  Golden Age of 17th-Century Baptist Literature?” He mentions eight new or forthcoming works, including both scholarly...

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How To Stay Christian in Seminary

Follow Satan is alive and well. One of the ways the enemy wreaks havoc in seminaries and Christian colleges is by causing young men and women to grow personally numb to the spiritual truths they are...

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How Scripture Functions When We Meditate on its Words

Follow I am currently reading John Jefferson Davis’s recent book Meditation and Communion with God: Contemplating Scripture in an Age of Distraction. It is a creative combination of systematic...

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Michael Bird’s Evangelical Theology: Review and Response

Follow I have a confession: I love reading book reviews. When I open a new issue of a scholarly journal, normally the first thing I do is check out the reviews. When I read serious Christian...

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The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller: Logos Edition

Follow As regular readers of this blog probably know, I am very interested in the life and thought of Andrew Fuller (1754–1815), the famous English Baptist pastor-theologian. If you aren’t familiar...

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An Infinite Journey: Growing Toward Christlikeness

Follow I have the honor of serving as one of the elders of the First Baptist Church of Durham, North Carolina. In the eight years that my wife Leah and I have been members of the congregation, I have...

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Windows on the World: Praying the Great Commission

Follow I published a post today at Between the Times titled “Windows on the World: Praying the Great Commission.” I talk a little bit about how the Lord first gave me a burden for global missions. I...

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On Evangelicals and Race: Two Recommendations

Follow In my latest post at Between the Times, I recommend two books to help caucasian evangelicals in America better understand the present realities and future possibilities of a multiethnic...

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The Pure Flame of Devotion: The History of Christian Spirituality

Follow Last week, I attended the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. While there, I was part of a dinner where a group of scholars, students, and pastors honored my friend Michael...

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Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals

Follow A few months back, I had the privilege of reading an excellent new book edited by Kyle Strobel and Jamin Goggin titled Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals (IVP...

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Book Announcement: The Community of Jesus

In September, our friends at B&H Academic are publishing a book titled The Community of Jesus: A Theology of the Church, edited by Kendall Easley and Christopher Morgan. My SEBTS colleagues...

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Don’t Judge a Theologian by His Unpublished Musings

(Note: A couple of weeks ago, I published the following post at Historia Ecclesiastica, the blog of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at Southern Seminary. I haven’t previously published it...

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The Jonathan Edwards Center at TEDS

Several times this week, I’ve mentioned The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University. The JEC website is the best place on the internet to begin a study of Edwards’s life and thought. Though the JEC...

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On “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

If you know much of anything about Jonathan Edwards’s preaching, you know that his most famous sermon is “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” The sermon is available in numerous stand-alone print...

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Book Recommendation: The Little Way of Ruthie Lemming

I recently read Rod Dreher’s new book The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life (Grand Central, 2013). If you aren’t familiar with him, Dreher is a...

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Francis Wayland and Richard Fuller: Debating Slavery with Christian Civility

My latest post for the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies is titled “Francis Wayland and Richard Fuller: Debating Slavery with Christian Civility.” The post speaks to the famous Wayland-Fuller...

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Leon McBeth and My Personal Journey into Baptist Studies

Longtime Southwestern Seminary church historian Leon McBeth passed away last week at the age of 81. I never met Dr. McBeth, though I have been around him once or twice at conferences. My own career in...

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Book Recommendation: The Young Shepherd

Wayne McDill: Preaching Guru My friend Wayne McDill has co-authored a new book for (primarily) younger pastors titled The Young Shepherd: Nathan Murray’s First Year as Pastor (CreateSpace, 2013)....

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The Gospel’s Redeeming Relationships

I’m currently reading Robert Cheong’s new book God Redeeming His Bride: A Handbook for Church Discipline (Christian Focus, 2012). I’m really enjoying it so far, and though I haven’t quite finished it,...

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Inexpensive E-Books on Global Missions

Check out the latest post at Between the Times, which points readers to four deeply discounted e-books on global missions. B&H Publishers discounted the titles for Southeastern Seminary’s Global...

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