Articles by William Boekestein
Effective Group Bible Study
Article by January 2012
It's six o'clock Wednesday evening. Your church's mid-week Bible study starts in one hour but you don't feel like going. The trouble is, you can't think of a fresh excuse and you don't dare to say what you, (and several others) would like to say: "Is this really what a Bible Study is supposed to be like?" continue
A Model Sermon:
Article by March 2011
Learning from Peter's PreachingIf you have young children or grandchildren in your family, perhaps you've seen the Disney-Pixar film, A Bug's Life. The movie imaginatively portrays life in an ant colony which is visited annually by a group of marauding... continue
Avoiding Chronological Snobbery
Article by October 2010
A Call to Add Church History to a Healthy Spiritual DietMany of us may struggle with the feeling that the church is already too old-fashioned. If so, why should we study church history? Shouldn't we stop looking backward to the... continue
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- Herman Bavinck's Reformed Dogmatics--Abridged in One Volume, John Bolt (ed.)
- K. Scott Oliphint, God With Us
- Review of Tony Reinke, Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books
- John MacArthur:
- The Christian Faith: A Systematic Theology for Pilgrims on the Way
- Review: Galatians (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the NT)
- Against the Tide
- J.I. Packer and the Evangelical Future
- The Elder
What John the Baptist Teaches us About the Gospel
Preaching through John's gospel, I have paused to meditate upon the person and work of John the Baptist. Here was one who came as a "witness, to bear witness about the Light" (Jn 1:6). Consistently (1:7, 14, 20) we are told that the Baptist was not the Light but a witness to the Light.
Preaching through John's gospel, I have paused to meditate upon the person and work of John the Baptist. Here was one who came as a "witness, to bear witness about the Light" (Jn 1:6). Consistently (1:7, 14, 20) we are told that the Baptist was not the Light but a witness to the Light.
Doubting on Your Part Does Not Constitute a Crisis of Faith on Mine
One of the amusing things I have noticed in the last twelve months or so has been a shift in the rhetoric used by members of the older generation (40 plus) surrounding what twenty- and thirty-somethings will believe. Five years...
One of the amusing things I have noticed in the last twelve months or so has been a shift in the rhetoric used by members of the older generation (40 plus) surrounding what twenty- and thirty-somethings will believe. Five years...
