November 2019 Kindle Deals
New Kindle deals for the month, including some “Week in the Life” social history volumes, and NSBT volumes.
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Reformation Day Kindle Deals
80+ deals, including more than 25 works on Martin Luther in honor of Reformation Day.
Paul and Plato? Two Errors in Pagan Parallels | Tool Talk with Joseph Dodson
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What does philosophy have to do with the New Testament? In Acts 17, Paul answered, “Plenty!” In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis chats with Joseph Dodson about two common errors when it comes to studying extrabiblical parallels to Scripture, especially in Greco-Roman philosophy. Dodson (PhD, Aberdeen) is associate professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary and co-editor (with David Briones) of Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context (IVP Academic, 2019).
October 2019 Kindle Deals
Kindle deals on books by John Stott, John Piper, and others not named John.
Meeting God in the Bible: Devotions and Academics | John Linebarger
How is so-called “devotional” reading of the Bible different from so-called “academic” reading of the Bible? Why must the serious student of Scripture make time for both? How can the methodical and inquisitive reader make Scripture reading a time of worship? In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis asks these questions and more of John Linebarger, a “collector of degrees,” bivocational minister, and author of Meeting God in the Bible: How to Read Scripture Devotionally (Fontes Press, 2019).
Story: The New Way to Teach Spiritual Disciplines
“A good story is seductive and even subversive; a spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine of information go down.”
September 2019 Kindle Deals
Preaching, dialogues with N. T. Wright, apologetics, theology, and more.
How Does Christ Fulfill the Law? Kingship and Matthew 5
In what way did Jesus “fulfill the Law,” as He said in the Sermon on the Mount? Patrick Schreiner, author of Matthew, Disciple and Scribe, gives an explanation: Jesus is the ideal Davidic King, who embodies wisdom by living the Law.
More than Citation: Matthew’s Use of the OT | Patrick Schreiner
Matthew’s use of the Old Testament portrays Jesus as the ultimate fulfillment of the Old Testament story. But Matthew doesn’t do this with just citations and quotations of specific OT texts. In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis chats with Patrick Schreiner (Assistant Professor at Western Seminary) about Matthew’s narrative allusions and Schreiner’s new book on the first Gospel.
Virtue Ethics, Sanctification, and Jesus’ Active Roles
For a long time, I wanted to write a book like this. I’m glad that Rothenberg has done it first.