ESV Reader’s Bible

Crossway has released the new ESV Reader's Bible with the biblical text in reader-friendly paragraph format. It's available both in Hardcover and Leather editions. Here is their 10 page PDF sampler   And for our Kindle friends, here are some special Kindle offerings…

Crossway’s new KNOWING THE BIBLE series

Crossway has just introduced a new series of 12-week Bible studies for individuals and study groups ...   Available in Kindle ... Genesis, by Mitchell Kim Isaiah, by Drew Hunter Romans, by Jared Wilson James, by Greg Gilbert Or if you prefer…

THE AMERICAL SOUL RUSH: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege, by Marion Goldman

Yoga, transcendental meditation, Jungian psychology, The Secret, The Celestine Prophecy, The Alchemist, Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Oprah … Esalen. For anyone living in America, most of this list is probably pretty familiar. These are the well-known practices, books and names…

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Items of interest … C.E.B. Cranfield’s On Romans  -- free giveaway from Logos. There is No ‘Third Way’ – Al Mohler comments on the homosexual issue now in the SBC. A Summary of Henry Scougal’s classic, “The Life of God in…

SOUND DOCTRINE by Bobby Jamieson

Ours is not the first generation to express distaste for doctrine. That’s an old problem. Warfield lamented the “doctrinal indifferentism” of his day, and the apostle Paul warned of it long before him. I will be the first to admit…

Tribute to Tom Nettles by Jim Renihan

It is a great pleasure to pay tribute to Dr. Tom J. Nettles upon his retirement from Southern Seminary. Dr. Nettles has been to many a professor, teacher, mentor and friend. He generously gives of his time and knowledge, and…

Tribute to Tom Nettles by Tom Ascol

I had the privilege of meeting Tom Nettles in 1977 when he was a new professor at Southwestern Seminary and I was a junior at Texas A&M University struggling with a call to gospel ministry. I felt like I was…

Two More Nettles Tributes

We hope you have enjoyed this week with us as we have paid tribute to Tom Nettles on his retirement from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. We have appreciated the feedback many of you have sent, expressing your affection, esteem,…

Tribute to Tom Nettles By Sean Michael Lucas

When my wife Sara and I were in Louisville, we had theblessing of being part of Tom Nettles’ Sunday school class at DeHaven Memorial Baptist Church in Lagrange, Kentucky. Through that class, Tom was our friend and pastor and cared…

Tribute to Dr. Tom Nettles By Michael Haykin

I first met Tom Nettles at a conference at Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto in 1988. I was then teaching at Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto, Tom was transitioning from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School…

Tom Nettles – The SBTS Years By Jeff Robinson

Arrival at Southern Tom Nettles had taught Reformation history and theology for nearly two decades when in 1997 he became part of one of the most remarkable reformations in recent church history. That year, Nettles joined the faculty at The…

Tribute to Tom Nettles By Steven Lawson

A revered scholar and accomplished author, Dr. Tom Nettles is a gift to the Reformed Baptist movement. I first came under the influence of Dr. Nettles almost forty years ago in 1976 as a seminary student. This distinguished professor was…

Tom Nettles: The Middle Years – Calvinist Soteriology and Baptist Ecclesiology By Tom Hicks

Without a doubt, Dr. Tom Nettles was the most influential teacher I have ever had. He possesses a remarkable combination of academic rigor, uncompromising conviction, personal commitment to Christ, and pastoral concern. During my first semester at Southern Seminary, I…

A Personal Tribute to Tom Nettles By Danny Akin

I could spend hours explaining why I love and appreciate Dr. Tom Nettles so much. He is a man of exemplary Christian character. He is a faithful churchman, a loving husband and a devoted father. His classroom lectures are legendary…

Tom Nettles: The Early Years By Greg Wills

Context In his early career, while serving as an assistant professor of church history at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1976 to 1982, Tom Nettles produced scholarship that contributed powerfully to the renovation of Southern Baptist seminaries and agencies…

Tribute to Tom Nettles by Albert Mohler

Tom Nettles will be remembered as one of the most legendary teachers in the history of the Southern Baptist Convention, and that’s appropriate because he’s written the history of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is known as a classroom teacher…

Matthew Barrett: Advice for Seminary Students

Some good advice today from Matthew Barrett for seminary students … and other Christians too!     There it is one piece of advice I would like to pass along to use seminary students. When you go to seminary you…

Tom Nettles Retires from SBTS

Many of our readers are familiar with the long and fruitful ministry of Dr. Thomas J. Nettles in teaching, preaching, and writing. Now after 38 years of teaching at the seminary level, Tom has retired from the Southern Baptist Theological…