Romantic love is a wonderful thing, but unless marriage is founded upon a covenant of love—a love of commitment regardless of emotions—romantic love has no safe place to flourish. Elisabeth Elliot (1926-2015) spoke wisely and practically about such covenant love in this selection from an unpublished manuscript: A honeymooning couple may be so dazzled with [...]

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On Monday, December 21, at 6:30am (EST), Janet Parshall of Moody Radio will interview Dr. Plummer about his new co-authored book, Held in Honor: Wisdom for Your Marriage from Voices in the Past.

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Click here to watch the short video “Behind the Bowtie.” When he’s not serving on the mission field or teaching in the classroom, what exactly does your seminary professor’s day look like? One videographer was inspired enough by his instructor to work with the Southern Productions team on this background story featuring Dr. Robert Plummer [...]

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When we pray “the Lord’s prayer,” are we asking God to deliver us from “evil” or from “the evil one”? Here’s a short video showing why “Greek matters” in studying the Lord’s prayer:

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I’m very grateful for Chris Castaldo’s new helpful book: Talking with Catholics About the Gospel: A Guide for Evangelicals See a video interview with Chris here.

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Come join us October 29-31, 2013 on Southern’s campus for the annual preaching conference.  I’ll be doing a break-out session on hermeneutics.  I plan to use a mnemonic method employing seven images that will help preachers remember seven essential interpretive steps as they study a biblical text.

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I’m grateful to John Cunyus for producing this very helpful verse-by-verse translation of the Latin New Testament.  As my young daughters grow in their Latin skills, this is a volume which I expect us to visit frequently.

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Reasons I recommend Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours as a helpful book for missions students or missionary practitioners: 1. Rarely do you find a book that effectively brings together the disciplines of biblical studies and missiology as this book does. 2. Contributors to this book are some the best thinkers in their respective fields: Michael Bird, [...]

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