Excepting Piper, I’ve read only four T4G-approved books.

I’m no pastor. Still, I wonder if a list like this pigeonholes pastoral intellect.

It’s our responsibility as biblically-minded learners to hear biblical truth wherever it is, even if it’s being taught without being specifically referenced.

Consider when editing yourself:

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. (Proverbs 17:2

Any thoughts on the Holman Christian Standard Bible (a “contemporary English” version)?

(Jollyblogger recommends an interview about the HCSB’s modernization of English.)

Sometimes I confuse grace with subtlety, gentleness, and conciliation, but isn’t God’s grace just as often blatant, aggressive, and even flat-out inflammatory?

He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.

1. “His disciples began to rejoice and praise God.”
2. “Pharisees…said to him, ‘Teacher rebuke your disciples.’”

3. “…the very stones would cry out.”

(Update: I expound a bit at the DG Blog.)

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

1. God intended
2. Jesus to die and rise,
3. accomplishing redemption,
4. offered through faith alone
5. for regeneration, justification, sanctification
6. and eternal joy in God.

(Adapted from my dad’s message, “How I Distinguish Between the Gospel and False Gospels.”)

The most important claim in Scripture—what all the rest of the Bible must be founded on—is the shortest: “I AM.”

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.

How does Paul know what can be interpreted allegorically? Does he have license to find behind-the-scenes meaning in any story? Do we?