John Crysostom (345-407) is widely regarded as one of the greatest preachers who ever lived. His preaching was bold and fearless. He was known as “golden mouth,” orator and yet he preached a plain spoken style that
Irenaeus (ca. 125-202) was an early church Father and apologist whose writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology. He was born in Smyrna in Asia Minor, where he studied under bishop Polycarp,
After giving a talk on sports and Christian discipleship in a seminary context, a professor approached me and said, “We don’t need sports to accomplish our Christian gospel mission, so why would we care?” It
Graeme Goldsworthy is retired lecturer in Old Testament, biblical theology, and hermeneutics at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia. Goldsworthy is a Reformed, evangelical Anglican scholar who spent many years in full-time pastoral ministry. Arguably
Words to Winners of Souls was written by Horatius Bonar (Scottish pastor, 1808-1889) in order to stir the Christian to a greater zeal for reaching the lost. While written primarily with ministers in mind, his challenges
When you read the Bible as if it is all about you instead of all about Jesus, the tendency is to jump from any heroic person or action to yourself. Therefore, you read the Bible
It is not uncommon to hear a seminary professor or Bible student assert that expository preaching or biblical theology cannot genuinely be done without a thoroughgoing knowledge of the original languages. I had the privilege
This week we are proud to give away Don Whitney's classic "Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life." This book was just recently revised and expanded, so even if you have a copy of the old
After teaching preaching for almost a decade at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, some questions and objections appear every semester like clockwork when I begin to lecture on expository preaching and propose the following definition:
The following material was taken from the handwritten notes of an unpublished manuscript by John A. Broadus, The Pauline System of Doctrine (no. 11” Box 19, Broadus papers) [John A. Broadus (1827-1895)