Marvin Olasky announces that the ESV Study Bible has been named World Magazine’s 2009 “Book of the Year”.
Olasky did a “road-test” to see how the ESV Study Bible guides readers through one of the hardest book of the Bible. Olasky concludes, “The ESVSB thus passes my test…the Bible is the book for all years; this study Bible is a particular winner in the Year of Our Lord 2009.”
Read the full cover story from WorldMag.com.
Justin Taylor interviews Dr. David Dockery on Southern Baptist Identity (June 2009).
Southern Baptist Identity gives readers an inside look at the Southern Baptist Convention as 16 leaders address key issues and pave the way for necessary renewal. This volume is intended to strengthen the SBC as well as offer practical insight to other denominations facing similar issues.
Contributors include:
In 1951 the Second World War was not long over and the Cold War was generating anxiety in the West. It was then that Martyn Lloyd-Jones preached these eight sermons on the great truths of John 14:1-12 to comfort, strengthen, and encourage those dealing with fear and uncertainty.
In these never-before published sermons, Lloyd-Jones does not lull fear to rest. He shows how to deal with fear by confronting it, recognizing it, and realizing that the only way to address it is found in the unchanging gospel.
Below find an excerpt from Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled:
The business of the gospel of Jesus Christ, therefore, is not to reform the individual or the whole world; it is to take hold of us one by one and to bring us out of it, to give us a new birth, a new life, a new beginning. It makes men and women children of God. It gives them a new outlook, a new power, and sets before them the blessed hope of life with God in eternity.
That, let me emphasize again, is the Christian message. The gospel is not merely an exposition of the Sermon on the Mount and its social application in order to make this world a better place. Men have been preaching that kind of thing for so many years and trying to put it into practice, but look at the results! To ask unregenerate people to live the Sermon on the Mount is mockery; they cannot do it. They cannot keep the Ten Commandments; they cannot even live up to their own moral standards. But how glibly people talk about “the social application of the gospel” and about bringing in the kingdom of God.
There is a kingdom of darkness and a kingdom of light, and these two kingdoms are here together in this world.
Oh, the tragedy of it all! No, we need to be born again, to be regenerated, and the gospel offers to do that. So side by side in this world of time, you have these new people, the citizens of the kingdom of God, and those who belong to Satan. “Ye,” said Christ to the Pharisees, “are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do” (John 8:44). There is a kingdom of darkness and a kingdom of light, and these two kingdoms are here together in this world—that is another aspect of the gospel message.
(Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled, pp 99).
Watch on Between Two Worlds as Justin Taylor and Russell Moore discuss the recent release, Adopted for Life. 
Other people are telling you to read the book too:
“…this is a compelling and convicting book. It could change your life. Read at your own risk!” (Read more).
“…is one of the most hard-hitting, in-your-face and you-have-no-more-excuses book that I have read about adoption (from a Christian perspective) that I have seen yet.” (Read more).
“I believe this book will have a significant impact on many Christians and churches. Every pastor needs to read this book and communicate its truths to his church.” (Read more).
“The moment I finished reading Adopted for Life by Russell Moore, I did something I rarely do: I sent the author an e-mail thanking him for the way he blessed me through his writing.” (Read more).
“Some books are dangerous, and Russ Moore’s Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches is a dangerous book. It is dangerous in the way Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship or Life Together is dangerous, because if you take the book seriously it may alter your life significantly and, to be honest, perhaps in ways not entirely welcome.” (Read more).
Even with the best intentions, Christianity can quickly morph into a religion of self-improvement when the focus shifts from the centrality of the cross to a list of actions we deem necessary to get our act together and experience growth.
In Counsel from the Cross, Elyse Fitzpatrick and Dr. Dennis E. Johnson explain how advice that neglects the work of Christ will inevitably result in either pride or despair. They furthermore exemplify a counseling model based on Scripture and gospel application.
This book is not only for counselors and mentors, but also for those who long to comprehend more fully their acceptance before God by Christ’s righteousness alone and how to practically apply it to their everyday lives. Whether in a pastor’s study or at a coffee shop, those who both seek wise counsel or seek to be a source of wise counsel will find this relevant.
Elyse Fitzpatrick’s Prime Time America interview will be re-scheduled (TBD).
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