This Week in Housekeeping

Recently updated Theological Term of the Week post:

sufficiency of scripture

• Fixed the formatting to make it match the more recent posts. (This was one of the first theological term posts ever, so it needed a lot of fixing.)
• Removed dead links (There were several of them.) and began a search for new resources to link to.
• Added link to GotQuestions.org’s “What is the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture? What does it mean that the Bible is sufficient?”.
• Added link to Mark Thompson’s The Sufficiency of Scripture.
• Added link to Mark Dever’s  ”God Told Me” and the Sufficiency of Scripture.
• Added links to two sermons by John MacArthur: The Sufficiency of Scripture, Part 1 (mp3); The Sufficiency of Scripture, Part 2 (mp3).
• Added related terms: authority of scripture, canon of scripture, inerrancy of scripture, infallibility of scripture, inspiration of scripture, perspicuity of scripture, sola scriptura.

Thankful Thursday

I’m currently making my way through 5 books and enjoying them all. I’m never happier than when I have several books on the go. I’m thankful for books and for the ability to read and understand.

I’m thankful for the promise of blooms on the May Day tree. The May Day tree in blossom is something I look forward to every year. It’s like Christmas, only I don’t have to do the work to make the celebration happen.

I’m thankful for the expectation of many good gifts in the months to come: a producing garden, a lush lawn, summer’s outdoor activities, maybe a trip or two, and a new (first) grandchild.

I’m thankful that “he who began a good work in [me] will bring it to completion…” (something I think the nonlordship salvation advocates overlook, by the way). I’m thankful for God’s sanctifying work, even though it it’s a process that isn’t always (or even ever) easy. I’m thankful that God teaches and disciplines his own. 

Throughout this year I’m planning to post a few thoughts of thanksgiving each Thursday along with Kim at the Upward Call and others.

Round the Sphere Again: Books

Redemptive History
In Nancy Guthrie’s Discovering Jesus in the Old Testatment, the reader is led through the Old Testament, day by day for a whole year, in order to “see the beauty of Christ in fresh new ways.” 

Only in recent years,” says Guthrie, “have I begun to understand that the Bible is one story of God’s accomplishing redemption through Christ. Honestly, writing this book was my way of re-orienting the way I have found instruction and hope in the Old Testament. I worked my way through the Old Testament asking how each passage pictured Christ’s person or work or pointed to a need that only he would meet.”

Here are 10 sample pages (pdf).

I’m most excited about this: Nancy Guthrie is also working on 5 books introducing redemptive history to women’s Bible study, starting with The Promised One: Seeing Jesus in Genesis that comes out at the end of July.

You can hear her discuss this planned series of studies in today’s The Connected Kingdom podcast.

Two Words That Change Everything
David Kjos has a mini-review of May’s featured book from Cruciform Press, “But God…” The Two Words at the Heart of the Gospel by Casey Lute.