From Arise. J. Dwayne Howell, Ph.D. is professor of Old Testament and Hebrew in the School of Theology of Campbellsville University and was named Distinguished Professor in 2008. He is also pastor of Rolling Fork Baptist Church in Gleanings, KY. Dwayne has written and presented in the area of Old Testament and Homiletics and is chair of the Homiletics and Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. He is also active in the Academy of Homiletics. What about... Read more
Kris and I will be leading a tour this next May of Turkey (one week) and Israel (little less than a week). The Israel tour will involve a four day hike from Nazareth to Capernaum, and I can think of no better way to experience the realities of the Holy Land than hiking those days through Galilee. While we are in Turkey I will be teaching from my next book, a book on Paul and what he says about Christian... Read more
From Rob Merola, a former student, a friend, and an Episcopalian priest — outside of DC: OK, I admit it. Sometimes I hate being a pastor. Why? Because sometimes I just can’t say the things I want to say. There are times, for instance, when I’d love to jump into the political foray. But here’s the thing. America right now is a deeply divided nation. About half of us lean liberal, and half of us lean conservative. So if I come... Read more
Patrick Mitchel, professor in theology at Irish Bible Institute in Dublin, provides for us his manuscript of a narrative sermon from Genesis 24. Take and read, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Isaac and Rebekah: A Love Story. Genesis 24 INTRODUCTION Let me introduce myself, my name is Eliezar of Damascus. Although you may notice I’m not named in this story, I’m named earlier [15:2-3] as Abraham’s chief servant and you’ll have to take my... Read more
Lord of all power and might, the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of your Name; increase in us true religion; nourish us with all goodness; and bring forth in us the fruit of good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen. Read more
Joe Posnanski’s great post about losing his iPad on a plane. Here’s the opening, but go read the whole thing. I left my iPad on a plane the other day. The crazy thing about it — as if there needs to be an extra layer of crazy about leaving a hugely expensive and personal and professionally vital device on an airplane — was that I thought about it five minutes before I did it. Not after. BEFORE. I put the... Read more
Turnabout is fair play. The progressive postured The Christian Century has a brief post by David Heim asking folks to reduce the gospel to seven words. They found a nice selection of folks, but I’d classify them all as soterian gospels. In fact, I’d classify them as “God loves us” gospels. Here are some of the summaries: In Martin E. Marty’s “God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow,” the “anyhow” hints at the mercy in God’s welcome. Donald W. Shriver makes... Read more
We are getting the bugs out of our new landing/home page here at Jesus Creed — what do you think? I wondered how long this would take. When I saw the original statements of TGC and that complementarianism was put at the level of the confession I was both unsurprised (the folks organizing it were strong complementarians) and surprised: How can complementarianism rise so high on the list? So while Carl Trueman and I disagree on plenty, we agree that... Read more
David Kinnaman, at Barna, has a new study on how “Christian women” (church-going, etc) will vote: Who Will They Vote For? When it comes to the “horse race,” Christian women edge toward the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, over the incumbent, Barack Obama, but they are more likely to consider voting for President Obama than are Christian men. Among Christian women, 53% support Romney, with 30% definitely planning to vote for the conservative. For their part, Christian men are much more... Read more
This weekly column is from John Frye. I desire to motivate gifted leaders to consider vocational pastoral ministry, yet I do so with some seasoned hesitation. The word “pastor” is being buffeted and the vocational pastor is being urged to step into the shadows. The era of “the pastor” is over in the minds of some. To encourage young leaders to wade into these already turbulent waters requires of them backbone and vision. A lot of smart people over the... Read more
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