Bible Study
Behind the Bible: A Primer on Textual Criticism by Jeff Johnson
Last week I told the blog’s readers about Jeff’s recent book The Church: Why bother? Many of you may already have come to know Jeff as the author of the outstanding work The Fatal Flaw of the Theology Behind Infant Baptism and as a contributor this blog. Well, this week I want to tell you all about yet…
The Church: Why Bother? by Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson, the author of The Fatal Flaw of the Theology Behind Infant Baptism and a contributor to this blog, has written a new book entitled The Church: Why bother? Having read the book myself, I wholeheartedly recommend it as a solid introduction to the Bible’s teaching on the nature, purpose, functions, and importance of…
Bob Gonzales on the Imprecatory Psalms
Just a couple of days ago, Dr. Bob Gonzales, Academic Dean and a professor of Reformed Baptist Seminary, posted an article entitled Zealous for God: A Defense of the Imprecatory Psalms. He has posted two videos of classroom lectures on the subject that I am posting here as well. After having watched both of these…
Toward a Biblical Perspective on Depression: 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
In my last post I wrote about how we may be encouraged through trials – even such trials as depression – that God’s purposes in our lives are being accomplished as we see his glory being revealed in and through us and thus increase in our confidence that our future glorification is assured. In this…
Teaching Notes on the Importance of the Virgin Birth
Following are teaching notes from 2006 on the importance of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. I hope they will be helpful to the blog’s readers as they prepare to celebrate Christmas this year. Scripture Reading: We will be reading lot of Scripture this morning, but we will begin with these two foundational texts: Matthew…
Toward a Biblical Perspective on Depression: Romans 5:1-5
So far this series has considered seven case studies from Scripture, from which we have endeavored to draw lessons about some of the possible causes and cures for depression. Then we examined a couple of passages which speak directly to the issue of depression in order to see how the Bible says that we should…
e-Sword Has Been Updated to Version 10.0.5
e-Sword, what I recommend as the best free Bible study software program, has been updated to version 10.0.5. Here is the description of the update from the e-Sword website: e-Sword version 10.0 changes from 9.9 The Journal Notes, Study Notes and Topic Notes editors have been completely redesigned! You can now insert pictures, create tables, format with…
Free Audio And Video Series From R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries is offering many of R.C. Sproul’s audio and video teaching series online for free here. The many series available for free include his classic Biblical and theological teaching on being chosen by God, the holiness of God, the providence of God, justification by faith alone, and the Trinity. There are also many series…
Toward a Biblical Perspective on Depression: Psalm 119
In this post I would like to shift focus to another psalm. Psalm 119 has several stanzas in which the author describes a struggle with what we would call depression, but we will focus our attention on the Daleth stanza in verses 25-32: NKJ Psalm 119:25 “My soul clings [דָּבַק, dāḇaq] to the dust; revive…
Sermons From Reformed Baptist Blog Pastors
For readers of the blog who may be interested, here are links to sites containing sermons from the various members of the blog. Although I am the founder of the blog, and its primary author up to now, I will post my link last, following an alphabetical order in presentation: First, for sermons by Dr.…