William D. Barrick Follower of Christ-Scholar in Old Testament and Hebrew

Writing · 2017

September 2017

7 pieces. To find something by what it is about, use the books of the Bible.

  1. My Recommendations: Book of the Week, September 24

    Photo Companion to the Bible: The Gospels Photo Companion to the Bible: The Gospels (DVD from BiblePlaces.com) offers its users more than 10,000 PowerPoint slides illustrating the four Gospels verse by verse. The photographs represent some of the collections of Dr. Todd Bolen, Dr.

  2. Practical Pauline Missions: Athens

    Brethren, we are not apostles, but their example instructs us. We cannot be exactly like the apostle Paul, but we can learn basic principles and practices from the biblical record of Paul’s missionary service. We can even develop a biblical evangelistic or missions methodology ba

  3. My Recommendations: Books of the Week, September 17 — Drs. Thomas & Toussaint

    On September 5 Dr. Stanley D. Toussaint entered glory and the following day Dr. Robert L. Thomas went to heaven as well. Interestingly, both men were born in 1928 (Dr. Toussaint in Minnesota and Dr. Thomas in Georgia).

  4. Two Fallen Towers and Two Fallen Giants

    For me September 11, 2001 dawned as any other day for making the commute in to the seminary and my first class of the day. As usual, I awakened early and prepared myself for a day of teaching. However, I broke my routine in a major way—I turned on the TV to check the news. In New

  5. My Recommendations: Books of the Week, September 10

    I’ve taken the unusual step of recommending two books on the same topic this week. Too often, commentaries on Genesis 1-3 and Psalm 104 (just to cite two examples) conclude that “cosmic-conflict mythological language” permeates the biblical account (Longman, Psalms, TOTC, 360, about Psalm 104:5-9).

  6. The Self-Existence of God: What does it mean? Why does it matter?

    When someone uses words like “the self-existence of” anything, it sounds like something philosophical and esoteric.

  7. My Recommendations: Book of the Week, September 3

    How can someone break away from tradition and family pressures to seek the truth about life and God? Nabeel Qureshi lets us look into his life, his home, his Islamic religion, and his heart as he struggles his search for truth.