By Luke Stamps – Last Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, the season in the traditional church calendar between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday.  Lent is a forty-day preparation (excluding Sundays) for the celebration of Christ’s Passion and Resurrection.   It is observed by Roman Catholics and many Protestant denominations around the world. While most evangelical [...]

By Timothy Raymond – A few weeks ago my friend Marty Sweeney, kingpin of Matthias Media USA, posed an interesting question on The Briefing Blog.  He asked, “If you could get all the people at [your] church to read three books, which three would it be?”  Moreover, they had to be “three books for anyone [...]

[Photo: Jodhpur Market - Eric Parker]

The March issue of Credo Magazine, “Make Disciples of All Nations” is almost here! We read in Matthew’s gospel, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And [...]

By Thomas Schreiner – Many of us are very familiar with Mark Dever’s book 9 Marks of a Healthy Church. Well, the apostle John wrote his own book on the topic long before Dever’s. And he titled it 3 Marks of a Dead Church, and it is found in his letter to the church in [...]

In the January issue of Credo Magazine, Chris Castaldo reviewed David Bauer and Robert Traina’s newvolume, Inductive Bible Study: A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice of Hermeneutics. Castaldo is director of the Ministry of Gospel Renewal for the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He is the author of Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as [...]

[Photo: Jodhpur Market - Eric Parker] The March issue of Credo Magazine, “Make Disciples of All Nations” is almost here! We read in Matthew’s gospel, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that [...]

By Kevin L. Howard – The shortest way of saying something is usually the clearest. The goal for Christian writers, especially academic authors, is not to impress but to humbly communicate God’s truth. That said, style and humility can be friends. Perhaps a formal introduction is necessary—Mr. Humble meet Mr. Clear. Simplicity often unites these [...]

  Few works of Christian fiction popular among American evangelicals tackle the struggles of the Christian life from a deeply theological and pastoral perspective rooted in the Lutheran Reformation.  Bo Giertz provided such a work with his book, Hammer of God. Matthew Claridge reviewed Giertz’s book.  Claridge writes: Within the past few months, the Gospel Coalition . [...]

By Matthew Barrett – The 40 Questions Series, edited by Ben Merkle, from Kregel is a series to invest in. Each book seeks to answer some of the most common and difficult questions on some of the most important topics in theology. The volumes not only helpful to those thinking theological already, but also for [...]

By Matthew Claridge– [artwork by Josh Lange] Last Fall I read David McCullough’s bio of John Adams. I came away with a greater admiration for Adams himself and a deeper appreciation for that entire period in world history. I was particularly intrigued to discover in more detail the content of the regular correspondence Adams and [...]

By Fred Zaspel–     Last time we saw B.B. Warfield’s demonstration of “presupposed” Trinitarian thinking in the common Christian phrase, “God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” He finds further evidence of this “presupposed” Trinitarianism in 1 Corinthians 8:4-6.  Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an [...]

By Timothy Raymond – From time to time the Credo blog will seek to point its readers to some of the most helpful sermons we’re aware of.  We’ll be doing this, firstly, to encourage your own pursuit of holiness, and secondly, to provide models of the kinds of preaching we believe most needful in the contemporary [...]

Our readers may be interested to know that Dr. Ardel Caneday, Professor of New Testament Studies and Biblical Studies at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota and regular blogger here at Credo, recently contributed a chapter to a new book entitled Christian Contours: How a Biblical Worldview Shapes the Mind and Heart (Kregel Academic, 2012).  [...]

By Dillon T. Thornton –   “I need to repent of my repentance.” –The Valley of Vision I’ve done a lot of stubborn and stupid things in my life. I remember one event in particular that occurred when I was a devious tot—I placed a 911 call and fabricated a story about my house being [...]

One conference that is just around the corner is The Cross Shaped Christian Life – Clarus ’12 (a regional conference of TGC). D. A. Carson and our own Fred Zaspel will be the main speakers. The conference is from March 9-11 at Desert Springs Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You can view the entire conference [...]

In the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone,” we interviewed Robert Peterson, Professor of Systematic Theology at Covenant Theological Seminary, on inclusivism. He is the Series Editor for Explorations in Biblical Theology Series, P&R and he is Co-editor, with Christopher W. Morgan, of Theology in Community Series, Crossway Publishing . He is the author [...]

In the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone,” Steve Cowan, Professor of Philosophy, Louisiana College, has written a helpful review of Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith, by Douglas Groothuis. Cowan writes, Christian Apologetics is a truly masterful work. It covers almost all of the major apologetics issues that an apologetics instructor [...]

Last week David Platt preached at chapel at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. The sermon was powerful and here is what he said:

Nothing is more encouraging in our fight against temptation than knowing that we have a victor in Christ who has already conquered sin and Satan in our place.   In Tempted and Tried, Russell D. Moore expounds upon this great truth.  Jared Moore reviewed Russell Moore’s book.  Jared Writes, In Temped and Tried, Russell Moore frames the temptation of Christ within redemptive history and [...]