Saints Gone Before podcast and the Protestant Reformation

2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. (That’s if we’re basing it on 1517, the traditionally-understood official start of the Reformation. There’s a case to be made that it started earlier, but that’s neither here nor there for the purposes of this post.) My last post here announced a new podcast from myself … More Saints Gone Before podcast and the Protestant Reformation

Episode 13 of An Oral History of the Church, Volume 1

We’re back with a brand new addition, an interview with GGBTS alumnus Marc Jantomaso! Marc is a church planter whose story demonstrates the kind of grounded, hard-working ministry you can see exhibited in seminary student after seminary student. We think you’ll enjoy his story. The audio on this episode is a bit different. We recorded … More Episode 13 of An Oral History of the Church, Volume 1

An Oral History of the Church – Now with video tours

Jonathan and I are back with a brand new addition (and not just Vanilla Ice lyrics references)! We decided to add to the quality of the oral history with a bit of visual history, as well. Specifically, we’re releasing video tours of the Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s Mill Valley campus just prior to the … More An Oral History of the Church – Now with video tours

A Visual Primer Bibliography on Church Discipline

The following is a list, in no particular order, of 12 helpful books that discuss church discipline or elements of it. This list is for layperson and minister alike, with some focusing primarily on the theoretical/biblical study of the issue, while others focus primarily on the practical, and some include a helpful dose of both. … More A Visual Primer Bibliography on Church Discipline

Christian Games Done Right: That Dragon, Cancer

Originally posted on Video Games and the Bible:
A screenshot of That Dragon, Cancer *Sources of screenshots are listed in their respective file names. __________________________________________ That Dragon, Cancer* (TDC) gameplay footage and discussion from the Video Games and the Bible YouTube channel: That Dragon, Cancer was created by predominantly Christian-staffed independent studio Numinous Games. Among these developers are the…

Book Review: We Cannot Be Silent by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Due to release on October 27th, Al Mohler’s We Cannot Be Silent is a helpful introduction for modern evangelical thought on the current events involving the redefinition of sexuality, marriage, etc. At 180 pages in length, it is a suitably brief introduction that should lead hungry thinkers towards yet more reading on various sides of … More Book Review: We Cannot Be Silent by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.

Book Review: An Intepretive Lexicon of NT Greek

Beale, G. K., Daniel J. Brendsel, and William A. Ross. An Interpretive Lexicon of New Testament Greek: Analysis of Prepositions, Adverbs, Particles, Relative Pronouns, and Conjunctions (Grand Rapids, 2014), 96 pp. Many Koine Greek lexicons and grammars have been written over the years. Walter Bauer, et al, produced a thorough and landmark lexicon, which was … More Book Review: An Intepretive Lexicon of NT Greek