Volume 16, Issue 08

April 2018

Heaven: God’s Presence and Purpose

Heaven can be difficult to picture.

Preaching: An exercise in longing

How to preach so your church wants heaven more than life

A call to teach and to reconcile: Boyce professor teaches the gospel and race reconciliation

Kevin Jones’s journey to Southern Seminary from west Louisville, and his passion for racial reconciliation.

An amillennial interpretation of Revelation 20

Theology Forum

A.T. Robertson’s Heavenly Sermon

HISTORY HIGHLIGHT

Distilling doctrine

Allison’s new book makes it easier than ever to understand and teach theology

Feature Book Review: 50 Core Truths of the Christian Faith

50 Core Truths of the Christian Faith: A Guide to Understanding and Teaching Theology by Gregg R. Allison If you have ever taught Bible or theology to kids or teenagers as a recently enrolled seminary student, you know that it can be difficult to distill all of the complex and nuanced information from your seminary…

Book Reviews: ‘A Reader’s Guide to the Major Writings of Jonathan Edwards’; ‘Becoming a Welcoming Church’; ‘Evergreen’; ‘The Hermeneutics of the Biblical Writers’

A Reader’s Guide to the Major Writings of Jonathan Edwards by Nathan Finn and Jeremy M. Kimble (Crossway, 2017 $21.99) No American wields more theological influence on evangelical than Jonathan Edwards. Yet if you ask around, you’ll find few Christians — even those of us who claim his theological lineage — actually read much of…