Scholarship & Coram Deo

Jeffrey Stivason
Jun 13, 2024
I recently finished Luke Timothy Johnson’s The Mind in Another Place: My Life as a Scholar (Eerdmans, 2022). I was eager to read it. I am always eager to read an autobiography about the intellectual and scholarly life of a person so accomplished and prolific as Johnson. The author provides a list...

Practical Retrieval: How Maximus the Confessor Helped My Sermon Prep

Adam Parker
Jun 7, 2024
A while back, I took an interest in the theology of Maximus the Confessor. I primarily became interested in him because he represents a theological capstone to Nicene-Constantinopolitan theology, and I want to keep sharpening and improving my own Christology as a pastor. If I wanted to understand...

Are you attending PCA-GA?

Robert Brady
Jun 6, 2024
If you are attending the PCA General Assembly June 10-14 in Richmond, VA, be sure to stop by Booth 416 to say hi. I will be there giving away copies of I Have a Confession: The What and Why of the Westminster Confession of Faith by pastor and Place for Truth contributor Nathan Eshelman . Working to...

A Church Is a Dangerous Place to Be

Seob Kim
May 30, 2024
A Church Is a Dangerous Place to Be Church - A Safe, Welcoming, and Casual Place?: A big stage with smoke machines and flashing spotlights, emotional music and songs, a man wearing jeans and a shirt with tattoos standing on a podium, a sign that reads “Welcome! You are loved here!” These are the...

The Single’s Choice, Part 2

Madelyn Moses
May 22, 2024
Editor's Note: If you haven’t already, go back and read Part 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 to catch up with where we are at!) (Read Part 1 of A Single's Choice here! ) A heart of contentment is possible because of Christ. Since his conversion, the apostle Paul had not had an easy life. He experienced frequent...

The Gift of a Pious Mother

Jim McCarthy
May 11, 2024
In remembrance of his late mother, the 19 th century Southern Presbyterian B.M. Palmer wrote, “Ah! We have but one mother on earth. Who can replace her in our thought? She who bore us in the walls of her flesh, in the strange community of a dual life; she who nourished us in feeble infancy from her...

Download the Broadcast Apps

Robert Brady
May 9, 2024
Download the free apps for The Bible Study Hour and Dr. Barnhouse & the Bible for clear biblical teaching from Dr. Boice and Barnhouse anytime, anywhere on Apple and Android devices. Create an account to unlock featured messages. The current featured messages through June 30th are: The Bible...

The Single's Choice, Part 1

Madelyn Moses
May 6, 2024
Editor's Note: If you haven’t already, go back and read Part 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 to catch up with where we are at!) BREAKING NEWS: a runner has tripped and fallen during their race! Wait, that runner looks familiar…It’s you. What happened that put you flat on your face? CUE INSTANT REPLAY. Okay, just...

Two Cities, Two Loves: Christian Responsibility in a Crumbling Culture

Robert Brady
May 2, 2024
Christians belong to God’s kingdom but live in earthly realms that celebrate radically different loves and priorities. In this new edition from P&R Publishing, James Boice highlights the dangers we face—dangers familiar to God’s people throughout the millennia—while offering practical, biblical...

Gentle & Lowly In Light of a Few Years

Mark Jones
May 1, 2024
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers (Crossway, 2020), by Dane Ortlund, has been very well received in the broader Reformed and evangelical world. I was asked to review this book years ago, but it seemed that any form of engagement other than full appreciation was going...