The Letter to the Church in Ephesus by Dennis Johnson

FROM TABLETALK | May 2009

Ephesus was the site of the first congregation that Jesus addressed in the Apocalypse, and the New Testament tells us more about the history of this church than about any of the others. Planted by Paul during a brief visit …Read More

Hebrews— Does it “Do Anything” For You? by Sinclair Ferguson

FROM TABLETALK | January 2004

A friend — his face wrinkled in a cheerful grin — described an incident that took place at the end of a conference address I had given recently. One hearer, apparently full of the blessings of the passage I had been trying …Read More

Pentecost by George Knight III

FROM TABLETALK | March 2010

Pentecost is the day on which Jesus pours out God’s Spirit upon the apostles and believers gathered in Jerusalem. The Greek word for Pentecost literally means “the fiftieth,” that is, the fiftieth day after the Passover, or, in this …Read More

The Reluctant Prophet by Steve Kreloff

FROM TABLETALK | February 2008

Anyone who has ever attended a Sunday school class knows that Jonah was the man who was eaten alive by a fish and then vomited out three days later. But that’s about the extent of most people’s understanding …Read More

In The Beginning by Richard Phillips

FROM TABLETALK | February 2005

The Bible opens by saying, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The purpose of the creation account was not to answer twenty-first century scientific skeptics, but to teach the people of Israel about their God. The …Read More

Ancient Wisdom for the Future by Burk Parsons

FROM TABLETALK | February 2007

Although attributed in error, Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be …Read More

Ancient Promises by R.C. Sproul

FROM TABLETALK | February 2005

“The new is in the old concealed; the old is in the new revealed.” This famous statement by Saint Augustine expresses the remarkable way in which the two testaments of the Bible are so closely interrelated with each other. The …Read More

The Gospel of the Gospels by Daniel Hyde

FROM TABLETALK | February 2009

Quick. What are the Gospels? Time is up. Did you answer: “The Gospels are the biographies of Jesus Christ?” When we read the Gospels as biographies only, we basically look at them like trees apart from the proverbial forest. There …Read More

The Witness of Luke by Robert Rothwell

FROM TABLETALK | February 2009

Imagine for a moment that you are a citizen of the Roman Empire during the first century. You are living at a time of peace and prosperity under the reign of the caesar, whom many call “lord.” Most of your …Read More

The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia by Cornelis Venema

FROM TABLETALK | May 2009

Many evangelical churches in North America are scrambling to find strategies that will enable them to reach out effectively with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Despite a rich heritage of gospel teaching on this continent, there is a sense of …Read More

The Prophets by Bryan Estelle

FROM TABLETALK | February 2008

The post-exilic prophets include Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, and probably Joel. They convey the message of God for this period of time with cumulative clarity since they come at the end of a long age of prophetic indictment against the people …Read More

Jesus and His Apostles: Teaching in Harmony by R. Fowler White

Have you ever gotten the impression that the teaching of the apostles is at odds with the teaching of Jesus?  Sometimes it may seem that way, especially when we see Jesus emphasizing certain things that the apostles don’t, and …Read More

Heaven Rejoices by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | January 2010

I’ve written a handful of books on a variety of topics, and one thing that occasionally happens when you publish a book is that people ask you to sign it. I think of signing autographs as something that famous …Read More

From Jerusalem, to All Nations, and Back Again by Fred Klett

FROM TABLETALK | March 2010

I once asked an Orthodox Jewish “anti-missionary” what he thought was the overarching message of the Hebrew Bible. Not usually at a loss for words and usually ready with an answer, this question somehow threw him. “We don’t think …Read More

The Year in Books by Keith Mathison

FROM TABLETALK | December 2010

I have always enjoyed recommending books, and for the final “Beyond the Wicket Gate” column of 2010, I thought it might be helpful to share some of the significant books that have been published so far this year, books that …Read More