2
Mar
2013
Specks and Beams
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I had the privilege of preaching in seminary chapel yesterday. One of the great blessings of my current ministry is that I get to teach seminarians each week and preach in the chapel regularly. I often try to preach from texts of Scripture that I think will help shape the ministry mindset of future pastors... Read More
1
Mar
2013
Winner Announcement – Letters to the Church
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We ended up with 37 comments on our book giveaway post from earlier this week. This morning my four oldest children each picked a number between 1 and 37. Then my 2 year old daughter drew number 17. This means that Matt Tolosa is the winner of Letters to the Church. Matt serves as Pastor... Read More
28
Feb
2013
Kevin DeYoung’s The Hole in Our Holiness: A Review
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A few months ago I expressed some fairly strong reservations about a nefarious variation of “Gospel-Centered” sanctification that has captured the attention of a number of conservative evangelical luminaries—a preach-the-Gospel-to-yourself, squeeze-your-eyes-tight-and-think-really-hard-about-justification method of propelling oneself to holiness without any discipline, self-denial, effort, or obedience (cuz that’s how them legalists do sanctification). In this post, I’d... Read More
26
Feb
2013
What Is “The Narrative Approach to Paul”?
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Sometime earlier in the semester I happened across a piece by Bruce Longenecker titled “The Narrative Approach to Paul: An Early Retrospective.” Like many of you, I’d been seeing all sorts of books and articles with some combination of “Paul” and “narrative” in their titles (e.g., here and here) and I wanted to see what it... Read More
24
Feb
2013
Book Giveaway: Letters to the Church
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We’re giving away a copy of Karen Jobes’s book Letters to the Church: A Survey of Hebrews and the General Epistles. In order to be entered in the drawing, just share this post on Facebook, Twitter, or your blog. Once you’ve done one or more of those things, leave a comment below telling us how... Read More
22
Feb
2013
Bridging Exegesis and Theology: Ecclesiastes by Peter Enns
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In this past fall semester and again in January, I had the opportunity to go through the book of Ecclesiastes. One of the benefits of my two recent excursions through this book was the opportunity to examine Enns’ 2011 commentary in the Eerdmans’ series, The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary. An objective of this series... Read More
20
Feb
2013
On Preaching Hell…and Holiness
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Last week a respondent to one of my earlier posts chastised me for addressing matters of sin and sanctification because in doing so, I was ignoring the elephantine issues of “poverty, homelessness, abuse, ignorance, and injustice”—in brief, I was violating the spirit of Luke 6:41–42 by picking at splinters while ignoring logs. I do confess... Read More
18
Feb
2013
Summer School 2013
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The DBTS 2013 summer school schedule is now available. Each class meets Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 noon for two weeks (no classes on Monday). There are three sessions of summer school: May 21-31, June 4-14, and June 18-28. Two different classes are taught the first season and one class during each of the final... Read More
16
Feb
2013
Equip and Encourage
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Dave Doran talks about his recent sermon series on contentment, specifically addressing why it is an important subject for the church to think through in our culture. Topics covered in the talk: 0:24 Reasons for preaching on the topic of contentment 1:57 Cultural discontentment revealed in response of sports fans 3:17 Problems in the church... Read More
14
Feb
2013
Belford to Present Rice Lectures
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Each year DBTS hosts the William R. Rice Lecture Series, named for the Seminary’s founder and first president. We are pleased to announce that the speaker for this year’s event on March 20, 2013, will be Prof. Brent Belford. His topic will be “Paul’s Pastoral Use of the Scriptures in 1 Corinthians.” Prof. Belford is Director of Graduate Studies at Northland... Read More