One of the most-watched and most-popular shows on television in recent years has been 24. This is a show concerned with terrorist infiltration into virtually every area of the U. S. Government. The show’s protagonist is Jack Bauer, an anti-terrorist agen... Read More »

John Phillips once told the story of a young Indian brave in New Mexico that fell in love with a young girl.[1]This article is a transcription of an address by the same title delivered to the Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop, Southwestern Baptist Theolog... Read More »

One of the things that I would say that we are bullish about at Southwestern Seminary is text-driven preaching.[1]This article is a transcription of an address by the same title delivered to the Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop, Southwestern Baptist Theo... Read More »

Hopefully, I will not be offensive to remark that there are two kinds of preaching: text-driven preaching and bad preaching.[1]This article is a transcription of an address by the same title delivered to the Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop, Southwestern... Read More »

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, w... Read More »

For over fifty years I was a pastor,[1]This article is a transcription of an address by the same title delivered to the Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2-3 March 2015. but now as an itinerant preacher I find t... Read More »

The Christology of the New Testament cannot be understood apart from the book of Hebrews. Yet, the portraiture of Christ in the book is over- whelming. The introduction is perhaps the most provocative of any epistle as it launches into the famous Christology. ... Read More »

Introduction Romans 9, of course, concerns Israel, yet it has repeatedly been a battleground in theological debate over soteriology. The focus has been on issues of election, human freedom and divine sovereignty. Romans 9 has provided foundational material for... Read More »

The phrase “Biblical theology,” when applied to a text, typically refers to the theological themes embedded in that text by authorial intention. For the purpose of this essay, I use the phrase in a more restricted theocentric sense to refer to what the tex... Read More »

Introduction[1]Adapted from an address delivered at the Sola Scriptura or Sola Cultura? Conference held at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, April 14-15, 2011. In this reflection, I want to examine how four Hebrew children responded to a culture chang... Read More »

The problem the evangelical church faces today is that we are proclaiming a premodern message in postmodern times. This is true in three crucial areas: absolutism, exclusivism, and supernaturalism. Evangelicals believe in absolute truth. We also hold that Chri... Read More »

Herschel Hobbs[1]Presented at “The Gaskin Lectures” on the “Thought and Work of Herschel Harold Hobbs,” 3 October 2011, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma. has been identified as a “thoroughgoing biblicist,” firs... Read More »