House Cleaning [July 4th, 2009]

• At the top of the list, Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and you can get up to five different entries each month! After you enter, be sure to check out Logos and see how it can revolutionize your Bible study.
• On the Ligonier Ministries blog, Dr. Sproul posted a series of posts on God’s Will and Your Job (Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4).
• Michael Patton, over at Parchment and Pen, let’s us know why he doesn’t think much of ‘spiritual formation’ curriculum, namely, that it generally ends up being a new form of legalism.
• The iMonk, Michael Spencer, gives his thoughts on what a ‘biblical’ youth ministry looks like.  For the most part, I agree with him.
• Once again at the Ligonier Ministries blog, they have finished their series on their top five picks for biblical commentaries for each book .
• Justin Taylor gives his thoughts on “What’s New about the New Covenant.”  This article was very helpful for me, since I have been struggling with which model of baptism is biblical: credobaptism (baptism on credible profession of faith) or paedobaptism (in the Presbyterian model, baptism of covenant children).
• In this weeks edition of ‘Theology on Thursday,’ Dr. Galyon wrote excellent article talking about the naturalistic and theistic worldviews.
• Michael Patton posted a great article on God and the nature of evil.  Typically, skeptics will pose a series of questions to Christianity, that can be quite a problem if you don’t have a proper understanding of God.  “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.  Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”  But, as Michael points out, there is another option that they fail to recognize: “God is able to stop evil but not willing because the evil brings about a greater good of some sort.”  In the Bible, see Genesis 50:20; Romans 8:28; & Hebrews 12.