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The Drama of Scripture: Finding our Place in the Biblical Story, 2024
Craig G Bartholomew and Michael W. Goheen, The Drama of Scripture: Finding our Place in the Biblical Story. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024. ISBN: 9781540966018. By Terry G. Hiebert, PhD The Drama of Scripture by Craig G. Bartholomew and … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical narrative theology, Drama of Scripture, new creation, redemption story, restoration of all things, Terry Hiebert, true story of the whole world
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How Can the Bible Guide Our Consumption?
By Brian Albright, PhD Financial decisions can be connected to several challenges that people face in life. Personal debt and working long hours can cause stress on families. The businesses that supply people’s needs are regularly accused of harming the climate … Continue reading
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Tagged affordability, Bible guide our consumption, Brian Albright, church and consumption, concumption decisions, consumerism, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, ethical business transactions, how goods are marketed, makers of goods treated well, need or want, purchase impact environment, purchase more important than God, purchasing decisions
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Evangelicals and Liturgy
By Lorn Gieck, DWS Introduction After ignoring liturgy for centuries many evangelical churches are experimenting with it. This article is an attempt to understand why and how, after all this time, a new renewal of worship is occurring in the … Continue reading
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Tagged definition of liturgy, evangelical liturgical tradition, evangelicals and liturgy, experimenting with liturgy, historic liturgy, how evangelical worship adopting historic liturgy, liturgical decisions, liturgical traditions, Lorn Gieck, order of congregational worship
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Review of Evangelism: Learning from the Past, 2023
Green, Michael. Evangelism: Learning from the Past. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2023, 151 pages. ISBN 9780802883438 By Susan Booth, PhD Michael Green (1930-2019) was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and Queens’ College, Cambridge. Graced with an exceptional ability to balance scholarship … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian witness, crusade evangelism, effective evangelists, Evangelism Learning from the Past, evangelism that speaks to issues of the heart, evangelizing people, history of evangelism, Michael Green, revivalism, Spirit led evangelism, Susan Booth
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Review of Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders & Teams, 2023
Hicks, Zac. Before We Gather: Devotions for Worship Leaders & Teams. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2023. ISBN 9780310145073 By Johnny Markin, DWS In the burgeoning world of literature devoted to informing and equipping worship leaders in the Christian Church, Zac Hicks … Continue reading
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Review of Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for Becoming a Successful Writer, 2024
Benjamin L. Merkle and Adrianne Cheek Miles. Christian Academic Writing: Twelve Practices and Principles for Becoming a Successful Writer. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2024. 176 Pages ISBN 9781540965998 By Joel Houston, PhD Benjamin L. Merkle (Dr. M.O. Owens Jr. … Continue reading
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Tagged academic productivity, academic writing, and emotional roadblocks to writing, Christian Academic Writing, Joel Houston, psychological, publishing in the Christian academic world, spiritual, writing for academic publishers who target a Christian audience
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The Anonymous King: A Foundation for a Messianic Reading of the Psalter
While scholarship on the Psalms has a long history, a more recent movement has been to study the Psalms not as a mere collection of individual pieces but as a whole, an editorially crafted book…. Continue reading
Help, Lord, I have Spiritual E/BD
By Kenneth A. Pudlas, EdD For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not … Continue reading
Review of A History of Contemporary Praise and Worship: Understanding the Ideas that Reshaped the Protestant Church, 2021
Lester Ruth, Lim Swee Hong. A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: Understanding the Ideas that Reshaped the Protestant Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2021. ISBN 978-1-5409-6753-4 By Christine Longhurst, DWS In A History of Contemporary Praise & Worship: … Continue reading
Singing With Jesus: The Psalms in Christian Worship
By Ken Michell, DWS In the conversations surrounding worship music in the North American Protestant church, discussions tend to revolve around a simple dichotomy: traditional hymnody versus contemporary worship. Into this debate, Barry Liesch proposed that both be recognized as … Continue reading
Review of Hope in Addiction: Understanding and Helping Those Caught in Its Grip, 2023
Partington, Andy. (2023). Hope in Addiction: Understanding and Helping Those Caught in the Grip, Moody Publishers, Chicago. By Estera Boldut, PsyD What does it mean to be the church in a world where addiction reaches epidemic proportions? How can loved … Continue reading
Seminary Faculty Reflections on Competency Based Theological Education: Confessions of a (Former) Agnostic
By Michael Morelli, PhD When Northwest Seminary and College hired me five years ago to oversee their fledgling competency-based theological education (CBTE) undergraduate programs, I was neither skeptical nor supportive. I was agnostic. Limited job prospects for a recent PhD … Continue reading
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Tagged CBTE, Competency Based Theological Education, discipleship, engaged pedagogy, equipping for ministry, excitement in higher education, how to do theological education, mentorship model, Michael Morelli, normative education, pastoral professors, theology as a craft
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Review of The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission, 2023
Christopher J.H. Wright, The Great Story and the Great Commission: Participating in the Biblical Drama of Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. ISBN: 9781540966162. $31.99. By Blayne A. Banting, DMin, PhD The Great Story and the Great Commission is … Continue reading
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Review of Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations, 2023
Irving, Justin A., Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organizations. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2023. 242 pp. ISBN 9781540964809 By Grant McMillan, MA Justin A. Irving, Professor of Christian Leadership at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and coauthor of Leadership in Christian … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical leadership, Grant McMillan, Healthy Leadership for Thriving Organzations, Justin A Irving, leader's character, leadership priorities, leading with love, organizational culture, organizational leadership of Christian organizations, teams and organizational leadership, wisdom in organizaztional leadership
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