How to Have Your iPad or iPhone Read to You

April 12, 2015April 13, 2015Kirk E. Miller

I want to make you aware of an awesome new feature now available with the latest iOS update on your iPhone or iPad.

Have you ever wanted you iPhone or iPad to read to you, to make any of your ebooks function like an audio book or to listen to a webpage while multitasking? Now you can.

Let me walk you through how to do just that. (The screen shots below are from my iPad.)

(1) First, open your Settings. Select General in the menu on the left hand side. And then select Accessibility (identified by the red box in the picture below).

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Al Mohler’s God and the Gay Christian? – FREE

April 9, 2015Kirk E. Miller 2 Comments

SBTS has made Al Mohler’s response to Matthew Vine’s book, God and the Gay Christian: A Response to Matthew Vines, available for free. Get it here.

Christians and homosexuality is a hotly debated topic in today’s evangelical world, and Southern Seminary continues that conversation in this publication. Matthew Vines’s new book, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships, argues that homosexual orientation and committed same-sex relationships are consistent with a “high view” of the Bible and evangelical Christianity. Southern Seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr. and four other seminary faculty members refute this claim in the new SBTS Press e-book, God and the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines.

Each chapter refutes Vines’s claims from six specific Scriptural references to homosexuality. Mohler’s chapter provides an overview critique of Vines’s book. James M. Hamilton Jr., professor of biblical theology, addresses the Old Testament claims; Denny Burk, professor of biblical studies, addresses New Testament claims; Owen Strachan, assistant professor of Christian theology looks at the church history assertions; and Heath Lambert, assistant professor of biblical counseling, answers whether there is such a thing as a “gay Christian.”

The Significance of Christ’s Resurrection: Scriptural Mediations for Resurrection Sunday

April 4, 2015April 13, 2023Kirk E. Miller

The following is the section on Christ’s resurrection from my personal statement of faith.

If you’d like, use the following, with its footnotes of scriptural references, to work your way through relevant texts and mediate on the meaning and significance of Christ’s resurrection.

Christ’s bodily resurrection serves as the decisive validation of his ministry and claims.[1] God’s resurrection of Jesus[2] demonstrates that Christ’s sin-vanquishing (and thereby death-defeating) death was indeed effective[3] and vindicates him as God’s appointed Messiah.[4] In fact, it is regarded as his Messianic enthronement.[5] His appointment as judge is confirmed by his resurrection.[6] Because he lives indestructibly, he is permanently able to make intersession for those for whom he died.[7] Through his resurrection he triumphed over demonic forces.[8] Christ embodies the hope of resurrection.[9] In his resurrection, he annihilated death and obtained incorruptibility.[10] As such, in him the eschatological order of resurrection,[11] new creation,[12] new humanity,[13] and Spirit-empowered[14] existence has dawned. His personal resurrection inaugurates the general resurrection.[15] It functions representatively for all those united to him.[16] In him believers are already raised spiritually[17] and will eventually be raised bodily[18]—one holistic resurrection occurring in two installments.

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Peter O’Brien on the Warning Passages in Hebrews

April 2, 2015Kirk E. Miller

Collin Hansen interviewed New Testament scholar and author of an excellent commentary on Hebrews, Peter O’Brien, on the warning passages in Hebrews–you know, those passages that warn about apostasy and that those who commit it are not able to be restored to repentance.