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Vehicles for Giving the Self
from Tim Challies Feb 15, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
Throughout 2011 we are conducting interviews with influential pastors, scholars, and artist. This interview column will serve to show the lives and ministries of these interviewees, in order to stir our readers on to live more holy lives. This month the editors of Tabletalk interviewed Michael Card. Keep Reading -
Confessions of a Bibliophile
from Tim Challies Feb 10, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
If you read Tabletalk magazine or if you are a regular reader of this blog, it will come as no surprise to you to hear Keith Mathison confess to being a bibliophile. In his contribution to this month's issue of Tabletalk he writes, "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a bibliophile is 'A lover of books; a book-fancier.' Although this is a helpful definition, I’m not entirely sure I want to refer to myself as a 'fancier' of anything. I’m from Texas. We either like something or we don’t. We don’t 'fancy' things. It's...unnatural." Keep Reading -
Does the Church Know Her Commission?
from Tim Challies Feb 07, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
Have you ever wished you could have a do-over? Have you ever looked back on a situation in which you know that you really botched the job and you just wish you could have another crack at it? That is the way I often feel when I reflect back on some of my less-than-fruitful efforts at evangelism when I was in college. Keep Reading -
Rejoice with Trembling
from Tim Challies Feb 04, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
Every issue of Tabletalk magazine in 2011 features an article written by John Piper. This month he writes about just a couple of verses from the second Psalm. Keep Reading -
Resisting the Devil
from Tim Challies Feb 02, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
The nineteenth century French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote that 'the devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist.' In the providence of God, the Devil has been quite successful in persuading his followers that he doesn’t exist. Keep Reading -
Columns from Tabletalk Magazine, February 2011
from Tim Challies Feb 01, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
The February edition of Tabletalk is out. In the vein of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, this issue features twenty letters written from a senior demon to a tempter-in-training on a wide array of topics. The issue aims to give a glimpse into the perverted world of spiritual wickedness in order to better understand the crafty and twisted ways in which it works against the people of God. Keep Reading -
Time to (Re)Discover Hebrews
from Tim Challies Jan 28, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
In his contribution to the January edition of Tabletalk, Ligonier Teaching Fellow Sinclair Ferguson encourages us to discover or rediscover Hebrews. "Of all the New Testament letters," he says, "Hebrews seems to be one many Christians find strange and alien. Here we enter the world of Melchizedek and Aaron, angels and Moses, sacrifices and priests. It all seems so Old Testament, so intricate, and even confusing." Keep Reading -
The Soul-Shaping Reality of the Gospel
from Tim Challies Jan 26, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
Throughout 2011 we are conducting interviews with influential pastors, scholars, and artist. This interview column will serve to show the lives and ministries of these interviewees, in order to stir our readers on to live more holy lives. Keep Reading -
The Precious Gift of Baby Talk
from Tim Challies Jan 19, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
John Piper's contribution to this month's issue of Tabletalk is on the subject of language. "Human language is precious," he says. "It sets us off from the animals. It makes our most sophisticated scientific discoveries and our deepest emotions sharable. Above all, God chose to reveal Himself to us through human language in the Bible..." Keep Reading -
Knowing Scripture
from Tim Challies Jan 12, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
One of the first books from the pen of R.C. Sproul, and one that remains in print 33 years later, is Knowing Scripture — a book that offers help for Christians who want to know basic principles of interpretation so they can study the Bible for themselves. In his article for this month's issue of Tabletalk, an article also titled "Knowing Scripture," Dr. Sproul sets forth just a few crucial principles for those who would faithfully interpret the Bible: the analogy of faith, the sensus literalis, the implicit must be interpreted by the explicit and the obscure must be interpreted by the clear. Keep Reading
