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  • Expositors Exhibit

    The Structure of 2 Thessalonians for Preaching

    Published on February 25, 2025

    I recently finished preaching through Ecclesiastes at Kenwood, and I knew that a sermon series through the Song of Songs was on the immediate horizon (we are in it at the time of this writing). I wanted to take a short foray into the New Testament, preferably into a smaller Pauline Epistle, between Ecclesiastes and...

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    The Definition, Structure, and Center of Biblical Theology

    Published on February 24, 2025

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    This essay defines biblical theology as the task of understanding the interpretive perspective of the biblical authors. If we are seeking the interpretive perspective of the biblical authors, the best way to pursue that perspective is to move book by book through the canon of Scripture, establishing a central idea on which all the biblical...

  • Shelf Life

    Review of The Crook in the Lot by Thomas Boston

    Published on February 24, 2025

    During his lifetime, the Scottish pastor-theologian Thomas Boston (1676–1732) was a man deeply acquainted with the reality of pain and suffering1. As a child, he witnessed the imprisonment of his father for religious nonconformity. His wife was beset with physical and mental illness for the greater part of their marriage. Additionally, only four of the...