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Reading the Greek New Testament and the Power of Ritual

February 28, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by Rob Plummer

Most mornings, I get up and prepare three large mugs of hot tea (two for me, one for my wife). I set out my favorite mugs.

I boil the water in a kettle. I scoop the aromatic loose-leaf tea into a strainer and then pour the boiling water over the leaves. After 5-minutes of steeping, I add sugar and milk (British style). I start a crackling fire. (Well, I press “play” for a crackling fire video on YouTube.)

I settle down on the living room couch while it’s still dark and quiet to sip my tea and read my Greek New Testament.

The New Testament only gives us two sacred rituals or ordinances—baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Yet, by consciously embracing other non-sacred rituals, we attach the totality of ourselves to a habit, directing our lives towards things we choose to value.

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Verbal Aspect and Following Jesus

February 23, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by Benjamin L. Merkle

One of Jesus’ most well-known—but difficult—statements is found in Matthew 16:24: “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me” (HCSB; εἴ τις θέλει ὀπίσω μου ἐλθεῖν, ἀπαρνησάσθω ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἀράτω τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀκολουθείτω μοι). Notice that in this verse we find two aorist imperatives (ἀπαρνησάσθω and ἀράτω) and one present imperative (ἀκολουθείτω). Why is there a shift in tense-forms and how should they be interpreted?

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Introducing ‘The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon’ (Collector’s Edition)

February 21, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by the Editor

Find out what sets The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon Volume I (Collector’s Edition) apart as a historical artifact celebrating the early ministry of one of history’s greatest preachers, Charles Spurgeon. These previously unpublished sermons are featured in a magnificent book complete with historical information, full sermon notes, full color photos and charts, and more. Even the cover is a work of art!

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Life as Spurgeon Knew It

February 15, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by Christian George

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born into an age of upgrade and downgrade. Over the course of his life, lightbulbs replaced gas lamps, engines replaced animals, and with the publications of Essays and Reviews, The Life of Jesus, and On the Origin of Species, nineteenth-century evangelicalism sparked as much controversy as electricity. A crisis of faith—or better yet, a crisis of doubt—walked the aisles of England’s newly lit chapels. Was Jesus God? Did miracles happen? Can faith and science coexist?

By the time Queen Victoria was crowned in 1838, the world of Wesley and Whitefield was vanishing. Gear-driven gadgets and inventions of all types alleviated the discomforts previous generations had tolerated. It was the age of rubber bands and safety pins. Sewing machines could stitch an astonishing 1,000 yards of fabric each day. Lawn mowers and “clod crushers” revolutionized agriculture. Photography, still an industry in infancy, captured history as it happened.

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Debating the Doctrine of God

February 9, 2017 by bhacademic 1 Comment

by Bruce Ware

Recent decades have witnessed a renewed and vigorous interest in the doctrine of God within evangelical theology. Theologians from the broad evangelical spectrum have produced both differing and innovative reformulations in understanding just who God is and how he relates to the world he has made.

Only a moment’s reflection makes clear that revisiting this doctrine amounts to a reconsideration of the foundations of the Christian worldview itself, taken at its largest and most comprehensive level. Everything in theology and life is affected by just how one understands the nature of God himself and the nature of God’s relationship with the created order, particularly with his own people. A. W. Tozer could not have been more to the point:

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Therefore, evangelical pastors, Christian leaders, and educated and concerned laypersons would benefit much from being aware of some of these proposed understandings of the God of the Bible coming from different evangelical scholars and communities.

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So You Want to Be an Expositor?

February 7, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by Greg Harris

To become a seasoned expositor of God’s Word requires a method, or a series of specific steps. Equally important, however, is one’s starting point, which is, sadly, quite often lacking. One’s starting point is important not only for learning how to become a better expositor, but also as a means of attaining reverence for God, another aspect of biblical exposition that is often overlooked. In short, we start—and stay—with God.

I have had the high privilege and calling of teaching Bible Exposition classes for more than thirty years. Very often, when I finish a class on a book such as Isaiah or Hebrews, students will sigh and say, “Oh, if we could only go back to the beginning of the Bible and do what we are doing now, it would be so tremendously rewarding!” I agree—such is the richness of God’s Word. However, I remind them that if we were to do that, they would be in seminary for twenty or more years and never leave our campus or go to minister to churches or institutions. Yet it is in response to this desire, and through God’s sovereignty, that the current volume, The Expositor’s Handbook: Old Testament Edition, has come into existence.

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Filed Under: Biblical Studies, Old Testament, Pastoral

Greg Harris Explains ‘The Bible Expositor’s Handbook of the Old Testament’

February 2, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

The Bible Expositor’s Handbook of the Old Testament provides a thorough introduction to the attitudes and practices required to deeply understand the message of the Old Testament. Exhorting students of Scripture to approach the Old Testament with an attitude of humility and expectation, Greg Harris lays the groundwork for a Christ-centered interpretation that takes into account the redemptive story of the whole Bible. Employing a literal-grammatical hermeneutic, Harris leads the reader through the process of observing, interpreting, and applying the Old Testament.

Dr. Greg Harris—department head and professor of Bible exposition at The Master’s Seminary in Sun Valley, California—shares in this 5-minute video how this volume can help those who want to gain a deeper understanding of the Old Testament, and how Jesus Christ is the key to understanding its various parts.

Order a copy of The Bible Expositor’s Handbook of the Old Testament on WORDsearch, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Christianbook.com. Request a faculty review copy here.

Filed Under: Biblical Studies, Old Testament, Pastoral

Why Spurgeon Was the Greatest Preacher of the 19th Century

January 26, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by David Bebbington

In 1856 Elias Lyman Magoon, pastor of Oliver Street Baptist Church, New York, published a collection of the sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Magoon had visited Britain in the previous decade and continued to be supplied with newspapers from the United Kingdom. He had written two books on oratorical achievements past and present. The New York pastor was therefore fascinated to discover that a youthful preacher of his own denomination had taken London by storm.

Spurgeon, though only a teenager when he accepted the pulpit of New Park Street Baptist Chapel, Southwark, in 1854, was the talk of the British capital. His chapel was thronged every Sunday; his services were sought throughout the land; and his sermons flooded from the press. Magoon decided to publish a sample for consumption in the United States. Spurgeon, according to the American, was “as original in his conceptions as he is untrammeled in their utterance.” Over the years down to his death in 1892, Spurgeon was to prove to be the greatest preacher of the century. What, asked Magoon, was the explanation of his powers?

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Spurgeon’s Enemies: Southern Baptists

January 24, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by Christian George

Southern Baptists ranked among Spurgeon’s chief antagonists. The Mississippi Baptist hoped “no Southern Baptist will now purchase any of that incendiary’s books.” The Baptist colporteurs of Virginia were forced to return all copies of his sermons to the publisher. The Alabama Baptist and Mississippi Baptist “gave the Londoner 4,000 miles of an awful raking” and “took the hide off him.” The Southwestern Baptist and other denominational newspapers took the “spoiled child to task and administered due castigation.”

In the midst of this mayhem, Spurgeon attempted to publish several notebooks of sermons from his earliest ministry. His promise to his readers in 1857 would not be fulfilled, however, due to difficult life circumstances in London. How poetic, then, that 157 years after The Nashville Patriot slandered Spurgeon for his “meddlesome spirit,” a publishing house from Nashville would complete the task he failed to accomplish. How symmetrical that Spurgeon’s early sermons would be published not by Passmore & Alabaster in London but by Americans. And not only Americans, but Southern Americans. And not only Southern Americans, but Southern Baptist Americans with all the baggage of their bespeckled beginnings.

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Who Was Charles Spurgeon?

January 19, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

In 1857, Charles Spurgeon—the most popular preacher in the Victorian world—promised his readers that he would publish his earliest sermons. However, the demands of ministry prevented him from fulfilling that promise. For almost 160 years, these sermons have been lost to history. His earliest sermons, meticulously handwritten in a series of notebooks, were stored away in Spurgeon’s College library for over a century.

Now author Christian George and publisher B&H Academic will release a 12-volume set that includes full-color facsimiles, transcriptions, contextual and biographical introductions, and editorial annotations. Written for scholars, pastors, and students alike, The Lost Sermons of C.H. Spurgeon adds approximately 10% more material to Spurgeon’s body of literature. Volume 1 (releasing February 2017) contains a 30-page introduction to Spurgeon’s life and times, 77 sermons he preached itinerantly and as a pastor of Waterbeach Chapel, and an analysis of these sermons by editor and Spurgeon scholar Christian George.

In the two-minute video below, Christian George explains who Spurgeon was and why he matters today.


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Dealing with the Problem of Evil

January 17, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by the Editor

The Problem of Evil: The Challenge of Essential Christian Beliefs offers a comprehensive examination of the problem of evil from both technical and ministerial perspectives.

Author and acclaimed philosophy professor Jeremy A. Evans treats the history of the problem with fairness, looking at it through contemporary philosophical literature and offering responses to the most substantive arguments from evil. His purpose is to provide holistic responses to the problem of evil that are philosophically and theologically maintainable.

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A Call to Restore Sound Theology and Relevance to African-American Preaching

January 12, 2017 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

enduringtruth_cvrEnduring Truth argues that faithfulness to Scripture is the solution to a “crisis” among African American preaching. Though misinterpreting God’s Word is not restricted to one race or culture, author Aaron Lavender identifies three factors that have precipitated the decline of black preaching specifically: racial segregation, black liberation theology, and prosperity theology.

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Filed Under: Pastoral, Preaching

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