DidaktikosDougald McLaurin | Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Last fall a student walked into the library and asked me where the commentaries on the book of Romans were located. He said he needed them for an exegesis paper he was writing. I asked...
Logos StaffDid you hear? The best of Christianity Today is being collected into books! These books mark the beginning of a three-year project between CT and Lexham Press, the publishing imprint of Logos, makers of Logos study platform. Since 1956, Christianity...
Michael S. HeiserIn my previous post, I noted that the right context for interpreting the Bible accurately isn’t the history of Christianity in any of its creedal distillations or denominational forms. But I went even further—I said that the biblical context isn’t...
If your church is like many others, you use WorshipPlanning.com to plan your services. This video and linked tutorial show you how to integrate the two. That way you don’t have to double-up any work you do in WorshipPlanning.com. This is just...
By Kevin Vanhoozer The church is the body of Christ, and its core—the community of disciples, the faith corps—enables its characteristic bodily movements: witnessing to the gospel, worshiping the God of the gospel, maintaining the health of the...
By Craig Bartholomew It may seem laughable in our present media-dominated context to imagine that a long, three-volume exposition of doctrine, written by a thoroughly orthodox Reformed theologian in another place and time, might hold vital clues for...
Matthew BoffeyIf you want your church to be more discoverable online, one of the best things you can do is nail your church website domain name. Here are nine quick tips to follow on your way to a memorable, discoverable domain name for your church website. 1...
Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. Which one is it? Answer the fool or not? On the surface, these verses appear contradictory. But...
Tavis Bohlinger"Hebrews is a majestic and disturbing Christian speech that calls its audience to perseverance in its Christian identity" - Jason Whitlark
D.A. Carson describes Leon Morris’ writing style in The Gospel according to John as “superb.” Interested to see for myself, I opened the commentary to see how Morris treats my favorite passage in all the Gospels. Indeed, his introduction to the High...
The new habitus of the Christian community "is always patterned around the death and resurrection of Jesus."
Today news is breaking of Warren Wiersbe’s passing. He went home to be with the Lord yesterday, two weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday. Dr. Warren Wiersbe (May 16, 1929–May 2, 2019) was a beloved Bible teacher and author of over 150 books. Often...
atheism [ ey-thee-iz-uhm ] Also called: Godlessness Disbelief in God. Top Bible Verses about Atheism Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good...
By Kevin Vanhoozer One of the key prophetic tasks of theology is to free the church, a holy nation, from idols. This includes false ideologies and metaphors and stories that guide and govern a people’s way of life. That’s the negative task of...
Lexham PressThis post is adapted from God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of This World by Scott Harrower.
Today marks the beginning of the Days of Remembrance, the United States’ annual commemoration of the Holocaust. Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime systematically persecuted and murdered an estimated six million Jews, as well as millions of...
Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, a day when millions of Christians join together to pray for our country. This stirring reflection from A.W. Tozer challenges Christians to consider whether their desires in prayer are sincere...
May 2 is national Days of Remembrance, an annual day to remember the six million Jews murdered by the Nazi regime and its collaborators in the Holocaust. The Ten Boom family of Haarlem, Netherlands, hid, fed, and cared for Jews during World War 2 in...
We’re approaching wedding season—full of June brides, scenic destinations, and as many gift cards and blenders as one heart could desire. Yet as Matt Chandler points out in this excerpt from The Mingling of Souls , weddings aren’t about the setting...
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With collected works in Logos, you bring renowned Christian theologians right into your studies. It’s like having them next to you to say, “Psst, if you don’t mind, I have a thought on that.” For example, let’s say you’re preparing a sermon on...
In order to know God and his perspective, people need to access his stream of consciousness or to have it opened up to them. Engagement with God requires more than being able to state things about him: it involves a person-to-person relationship in...
Douglas EstesI am a perfectionist. While this may seem like a simple admission, it took me many years to self-diagnose and admit that I am, in fact, a perfectionist. Nothing in my personality or past experiences led me to believe that I was a perfectionist...
By Francis Chan and Lisa Chan Truth be told, Lisa and I have very little in common. I love sports, she doesn’t. She loves the mall, I hate it with a passion. She likes to sing, and I sound like a cow. I love weird Asian food, she thinks it’s creepy...
Last week we posted about whether Jesus went to hell after his death, and in what sense. One of the chief passages on this topic is 1 Peter 3:18–20, specifically verse 19: “in which he [the resurrected Christ] went and proclaimed to the spirits in...
Enjoy these quotes on salvation and repentance from Carson, Barth, and Spurgeon. (Bonus quote from Tozer at the end, too.) D.A. Carson If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived...
There are certain passages that make you scratch your head, even if you’ve read them before. Luke 11:24–26 is one of them. Here’s how Joel Green, author of the Luke volume in the New International Commentary of the New Testament (NICNT), treats...
“If I could only own one full set of commentaries, the New International Commentary on the Old and New Testaments would be my choice. . . Like a fine wine, it has continued to improve with age.” — Randy McCracken, author and professor Like BDAG...
By Elisabeth Elliot When I came to the realization that my husband was missing, not knowing for another five days that he was dead, the words that God brought to me then were from Isaiah the 43rd chapter, “When thou passest through the waters I will...
Guest AuthorI have already offered thoughts for the preaching scholar concerning first things and meditation, as well as my suggested exegetical resources for preaching (including exegetical commentaries). Here I want to pass on my favorite theological...