We have yet another winner! Chris Jackson, you are this week’s winner for Crossway’s book package giveaway. You have won: The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor: Reflections on Life and Ministry. By John Piper and D. A. Carson. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010. The Deity of Christ. Edited by Chris Morgan and Robert [...]

By Tim Raymond One of my favorite seminary professors used to tell a story intended to warn students of the dangers of preaching like seminarians once in the pastorate.  I don’t recall the precise details but it went something like this.  He was fresh out of seminary with his ThM and had taken his first [...]

Today is the last day for this week’s book package giveaway! You must enter to win by 3pm EST. The countdown continues to the release of the first issue of Credo Magazine this October. This October’s issue, The Living Word, will feature articles and interviews with theologians like Timothy George, John Frame, Gregg Allison, Robert [...]

By Matthew Barrett   Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus. By Elyse M. Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. If you are a Christian parent then you know, as I do, how easy it can be to just set down the rules to be obeyed for your kids [...]

Series: The Local Church and Missions (Part IV): Acts 2:1-13 By Todd Miles The second chapter of Acts begins with the disciples gathered in Jerusalem according to the instructions of Jesus, awaiting the Feast of Pentecost. They had heard Jesus’ announcement that he would send the Holy Spirit and make them into his witnesses from [...]

By Thomas Schreiner I received an email from a friend ministering in India reporting on the persecution taking place in India. The main area where persecution is taking place is in the state of Orissa in Western India. There is a history of violence against Christians in this state going back several years (this is [...]

Only 3 more days for this week’s book package giveaway! The countdown continues to the release of the first issue of Credo Magazine this October. This October’s issue, The Living Word, will feature articles and interviews with theologians like Timothy George, John Frame, Gregg Allison, Robert Saucy, Owen Strachan, Fred Zaspel, Tim Challies, Matthew Barrett, [...]

On our “Reviews and Interviews” page, Fred Zaspel has reviewed Jonathan Leeman’s new book, Reverberation: How God’s Word Brings Light, Freedom, and Action to His People (Chicago: Moody, 2011). Zaspel begins, Surely every Christian acknowledges the power of God’s Word. Well, at least as a creedal statement we all would acknowledge it. But whether our [...]

By Fred Zaspel As important as the word “salvation” is in Scripture and dominant as it is in our own vocabulary in describing the benefits we enjoy in Christ, it is surprising to us when we discover how little our Lord used this word himself. We do not find it at all in Matthew or [...]

By Marc Cortez “I can’t believe she disappointed us like this. She’s only fifteen! What was she thinking? What are we going to do now?” I may not be the most intuitive person around, but even I could tell that he was angry—body tense, jaw clenched, voice shaking. But, it was a special kind of [...]

Don’t miss this week’s book package giveaway! The countdown continues to the release of the first issue of Credo Magazine this October. This October’s issue, The Living Word, will feature articles and interviews with theologians like Timothy George, John Frame, Gregg Allison, Robert Saucy, Owen Strachan, Fred Zaspel, Tim Challies, Matthew Barrett, Tony Merida, Michael [...]

Interview by Matthew Barrett I had the pleasure of asking Gerald Bray to answer a handful of questions about his new book, Galatians, Ephesians, in the new Reformation Commentary on Scripture Series, edited by Timothy George. Gerald Bray (M.Litt., D.Litt., University of Paris-Sorbonne) taught full-time at Beeson Divinity School in the areas of church history, [...]

This morning we launched the new website for Credo Magazine. I would like to thank Micah Fries for his work on this project. We hope you enjoy the improved site and some of its new features. We have noticed, however, that the website seems to work best in Firefox (if you are using Internet Explorer [...]

The countdown continues to the release of the first issue of Credo Magazine this October. This October’s issue, The Living Word, will feature articles and interviews with theologians like Timothy George, John Frame, Gregg Allison, Robert Saucy, Owen Strachan, Fred Zaspel, Tim Challies, Matthew Barrett, Tony Merida, Michael A.G. Haykin, Thomas Schreiner, and many others. [...]

On the “Reviews and Interviews” page Luke Stamps reviews Daniel Ebert’s new book, Wisdom Christology: How Jesus Becomes God’s Wisdom for Us.  Luke begins, “Wisdom and Christology belong together” (2). This juxtaposition is one of the primary assumptions of Daniel Ebert’s new book, Wisdom Christology: How Jesus Becomes God’s Wisdom for Us.  Ebert, a former [...]

By Paul Helm This is the last of three posts on theological connections between medieval and reformed theology. The Reformation was a re-formation, not a revolution, and the Reformed churches regarded themselves as catholic, building on the ecumenical creeds and the patristic and medieval theology, and paying great respect to the great doctors of the [...]

Wayne Grudem is research professor of theology and biblical studies at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona. Aaron Cline Hanbury has taken the time to ask Grudem some questions about his book, Politics – According to the Bible (Zondervan, 2010). What got you started on this project? The theological reason is that I think God’s Word [...]

By Matthew Barrett “Ever since I was little,” says Hiroki Terai, Tokyo’s pioneering divorce planner, “I wondered, If you have a wedding ceremony, why not have one to mark your divorce?” Described as a “man of good cheer” Terai has created a rave of interest in Tokyo Japan for ceremonies celebrating one’s divorce. Paige Ferrari [...]

This week’s winner for the book package giveaway is…Matthew George! Matthew George, you have won the following books: Understanding the Times: New Testament Studies in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of D. A. Carson on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, edited by Andreas J. Kostenberger and Robert W. Yarbrough. Did Adam and Eve [...]

By Michael A.G. Haykin Not long after his conversion, William Wilberforce (1759–1833), at the time a member of Parliament, wrote to the evangelical minister John Newton (1725–1807) on December 2, 1785, wanting to visit him for spiritual advice about his career, for Wilberforce was contemplating leaving the realm of politics. For a number of eighteenth-century [...]