This week was juicy!
Blogs
Mike Bird writes an open letter to the SBL about their banning IVP from displaying books at a 2017 conference. Stanley Porter has also added his voice to object strenuously.
“Archaeology Ratifies the Old Testament Yet Again — Oldest Hebrew Reference to Jerusalem”
We’ve collated fourteen reasons to preach expository sermons. If you’re not convinced, let us know why! If you are, let us know if you have more reasons.
This list was pre-existing on my hard drive, but I added a few good reasons after reading Tony Merida’s The Christ-Centered Expositor. We featured it as our Book of the Week and give you a brief overview of how useful it is as a preaching guide.
Last week we featured The Message of the Twelve as our Book of the Week and later interviewed the authors, who gave some substantial and helpful questions to some tough questions.
We reviewed Paul and His Recent Interpreters by N. T. Wright, a book every Pauline student should own.
We also reviewed Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship. If you’re a NT backgrounds person or you’re into Greek language/linguistics, this is a superb 1,500 page companion to consult (even though you can’t afford it…).
Book Deals
Luther and the Stories of God, by Robert Kolb, $4.99
Reading the Bible with Martin Luther, by Timothy J. Wengert, $3.99
God’s Indwelling Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Old and New Testaments, by James M. Hamilton Jr., $0.99
Several of the “Exalting Christ in ________” commentaries are on sale for $0.99. Click here and scroll down to see them all.
