November 28, 2013
by Joseph Randall
“With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.” 2 Corinthians 8:18
When I was at the 2012 Together For The Gospel meeting, there was a panel discussion on celebrity pastors. Dr. Carl Trueman was on the panel, cautioning against the perils and dangers of the celebrity pastor. While I certainly agreed wi...
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November 27, 2013
by Joseph Randall
"The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing" (Psalm 23:1). This amazing truth is ultimately fulfilled in the Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ. Only in Him is all that is promised to us fully realized. For all the Psalmists declaration to become realizations for us, Jesus had to lay down His life for the sheep (John 10:11). Consider the following ways that Psalm 23 is fu...
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July 17, 2013
by Joseph Randall
In Ezekiel 47 the prophet sees an unusual sight. This is not the first unusual thing Ezekiel has seen as he gets a guided tour of a new temple. The prophet is exposed to all sorts of changes in the design of the temple, its sacrificial system, and in the surrounding allotment of land to the twelve tribes of Israel. God is making all things new, as it were. Jerusale...
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December 5, 2012
by Joseph Randall
Reading is a wonderful thing. It stimulates thinking. Or so it should. Of course the famous computer expression “GIGO” applies to reading as well as to computer programming. If all we do is put garbage in, all we will get is garbage out. The three books I would like to mention here avoid GIGO altogether.
Richard M. Gamble (not to be confused with the theolog...
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November 2, 2012
by Joseph Randall
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 1859-2009
By
Gregory A. Wills
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009
566 pp General Index Illustrations
Gregory Wills, professor of church history at SBTS, has penned a well-researched and written history of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from its founding in 1859 to 2009. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 185...
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August 25, 2012
by Joseph Randall
Jonathan Edwards and Justification
Edited by
Josh Moody
Wheaton: Crossway, 2012
158 pp, Preface, Introduction, Index
Books about Jonathan Edwards are legion. So too are books about the oft controverted doctrine of justification. So along comes this delightful little book Jonathan Edwards and Justification published by Crossway Books and ably edited by Edwards scho...
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August 25, 2012
by Joseph Randall
A Toxic Exchange
The golden calf incident of Exodus 32 provides us with a vivid illustration of what can go wrong when we fall into brazen idolatry. If when you read Paul’s comments in Romans 1 where he talks about the exchange of the truth for the lie, you wondered what that looks like, here is your picture. This is an account of in-your-face idolatry. The unholy...
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August 11, 2012
by Joseph Randall
Did God Really Say? Affirming the Truthfulness
and Trustworthiness of Scripture
Edited by David B. Garner
181 pp, Bibliography and Subject Name Index
PR Publishing: Phillipburg, 2012
I became a Christian back in 1983 when Evangelical discussions about biblical inerrancy were in high gear. Not only had Evangelical pastors and scholars hammered out a solid statement ab...
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July 26, 2012
by Joseph Randall
Abominable Sacrifices:
How Jesus Takes Miserable Worshipers
and Makes Us Acceptable to God
(Isaiah 1:10-15 ESV)
10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11 "What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do no...
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July 26, 2012
by Joseph Randall
Canon Revisited:
Establishing the Origins and Authority of
the New Testament
By Michael J. Kruger, PhD
Wheaton: Crossway 2012
362pp, Bibliography, General and Scripture Indices
Here is a book I can confidently endorse and encourage you all to get your hands on and read! Michael Kruger, professor of New Testament and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary in Cha...
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