The Message of Daniel: A Review
“The Message of Daniel” is a unique treatment of this Old Testament prophet that is devotional, homiletical, textual and thoughtful
In “The Message of Daniel,” the author essentially follows the book of Daniel, from chapter one straight through to chapter twelve. He doesn’t work it out like a normal commentary, verse by verse, with tons of Hebrew/Aramaic syntactical-grammatical verbosity cluttering up the page. Instead, the material genuinely lends itself to serious devotional reading, as well... Continue Reading
What Is Biblical Theology?
A review of James M. Hamilton Jr.'s What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible’s Story, Symbolism, and Patterns.
James Hamilton writes this little volume, What Is Biblical Theology?, so that when you stare death in the face you will stand with Paul and declare, “My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better!” James M. Hamilton Jr. What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible’s Story, Symbolism, and... Continue Reading
Duck Dynasty: ‘Going to shoot him? The woman? Me?’
Where will it end?
Can’t we make distinctions anymore between someone who wants to beat up homosexuals and someone who (1) affirms what the Bible says, (2) recognizes that gays are also made after God’s image, and (3) notes that all of us, without exception, are sinners? Must we all applaud propaganda? Can’t we oppose bullying attempts from both... Continue Reading
Paul and the Law: A Review
Paul's apparently contradictory statements about the law have occupied interpreters for centuries
Having undergone redemptive-historical modification, the law very much has a home in the New Covenant. The law continues to provide the moral standard that binds all people, not just Christians. It is this understanding of the law that helps us to grasp what the prophet meant when he looked to the day when God would... Continue Reading
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Book review of Miles Hollingworth's "Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography."
Hollingworth takes us back to the pre-Socratic philosophers of ancient Greece and the beginning of classical civilization. We cannot understand how Augustine was trained to think unless we master the origins of Platonism, and that means returning to the world Plato addressed and transformed. To say this isn’t to argue Augustine was a Platonist, but... Continue Reading
Why Christians Should Listen to Punk Rock
Classical music captures the world as it should be, Punk Rock captures the world as it is.
Whereas classical music embodies order, law, structure, and beauty, punk rock embodies–not the world as it should be–but the world as it is. Also, punk music has a social awareness that would put Beethoven and his ministry to the deaf to shame. Punk rock music is the true Christian art form. I know it’s hard to... Continue Reading
A Fair Analysis of the NIV
How the NIV 2011 compares to what was the evangelical standard, the NIV 1984
As the old Italian proverb goes, “Translation is treason.” The treasonous nature of all translation work consists in the inability to accurately convey the nuance of meaning when moving from the original text to the receptor language. While the translator may be able to convey the bulk of meaning found within a text, he will unlikely communicate... Continue Reading
Words In Season
A review of Leon Brown's "Words in Season: On Sharing the Hope That is Within Us."
A pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), Brown deftly deals with the issues that are involved in lay evangelism. He correctly tells his readers to begin with God, telling us who He is with regard to His attributes, why mankind is alienated from Him by sin, and how we can be reconciled to... Continue Reading
God Came Down
Even before he assumed a human nature, the Son of God was still the mediator between God and man.
It is amazing to contemplate the wonder of the condescension of God to man. The almighty God has humbled himself to assume human properties so that he can reveal himself to us, to even ”relate to us in a way that would be suitable to who we are” (212), and he ultimately humiliates himself beyond... Continue Reading
The Visionary Worrywart
Worriers are always looking to the future—a future that is tragic and brutal.
Finally, worriers are immune to reason. As worry is added to worry, as anxiety compounds and leads to irrational behavior, loved ones try to help. They explain that worry has never accomplished anything or ever made a situation any better; they show and explain that worry is more like astrology than prophecy. When nothing else... Continue Reading
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