Revelation: The Spirit Speaks to the Churches is a new commentary written by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor James Hamilton. Hamilton is known from his magnum opus, God’s Glory in Salvation Through Judgment: A Biblical Theology which is an excellent and highly recommended work. There is much to commend this work, starting with its accessible ...

In this past week’s sermon, we spoke briefly concerning our responsibilities and the Lord’s responsibilities: we are to spread the Gospel, the Lord is the One who will call people to respond to it – He does the hard work. This reminded me of a comment that I read once regarding the great humility which ...

Sometimes the most difficult part of reading any part of the Bible is deciding how to begin. I realize, of course, that the New Year has already begun, but if there’s anyone out there who is contemplating reading through their Bible this year (or just part of it, even) and hasn’t quite had the motivation ...

I’ve mentioned before that I believe our culture is particularly bad at listening wisely – especially those of us who are younger and feel like we need to jump right in to a conversation not realizing that we aren’t the first ones to confront a particular issue. Of course it is also true that wisdom ...

This past week we included a bulletin insert on giving some thought to the New Year. Sure, we all take stock of the previous year and think through how we’d like things to be different in the upcoming year, but one area that is easy to forget is our spiritual lives. What grace has God ...