notes
1. John Piper, “The New Calvinism and the New Community,” the Gaffin Lecture at Westminster Seminary, March 12, 2014.
2. Iain H. Murray, Archibald G. Brown: Spurgeon’s Successor (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2011), 367.
3. Jonathan Leeman, ed., The Underestimated Gospel: Addresses at the 2012 Together for the Gospel Conference (Nashville, TN: B&H, 2014), 4.
4. “An intemperate, imprudent zeal, and a degree of enthusiasm, soon crept in and mingled itself with that revival of religion” in Jonathan Edwards, Works, vol. 2 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2005), 321. See chapter 12 in Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1987).
5. For more information, visit Crossway.org. As well as the addresses from 2012, I also quote below from those of 2010, entitled The (Unadjusted) Gospel (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014).
6. John Piper, A Hunger for God: Desiring God through Fasting and Prayer (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1997), 99–100.
7. This foreword has been condensed and adapted from an article in The Banner of Truth magazine, No. 609 (June 2014), accessible at http://wbcs.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/609-Jun-2014.pdf.
8. Mark Dever, “How to Survive a Cultural Crisis” (May 13, 2013), http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/how-to-survive-a-cultural-crisis.
9. Carl E. Braaten, Robert W. Jenson, eds., A Map of Twentieth-Century Theology: Readings from Karl Barth to Radical Pluralism (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995), 244–45.
10. Brian D. McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2004), 260.
11. Scripture passages in this chapter are taken from the New American Standard Bible.
12. Walter J. Chantry, Today’s Gospel: Authentic or Synthetic? (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1970), 45–46.
13. Ibid., 48.
14. Terry Johnson, The Parables of Jesus: Entering, Growing, Living and Finishing in God’s Kingdom (Scotland: Christian Focus, 2007), 286.
15. Charles H. Spurgeon, Sermon #1000, or “Bread Enough and to Spare” in Miracles and Parables of Our Lord, Vol. 3 (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, reprinted 2003), 340.
16. Leon Morris, Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1974), 267.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Scripture passages in this chapter are taken from the New International Version, 1984 edition.
20. John Wesley, recorded in his journal entry for Tuesday, December 23, 1755, cited in David Poling, ed., Inspiration Three (New Canaan, CT: Keats Publishing, Inc., 1973), 119.
21. The themes in this chapter, as well as the specific verses discussed, are explored in greater detail in Kevin DeYoung, Taking God at His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What that Means for You and Me (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014), see especially pages 95–110. At times, particular sentences, or even a few full paragraphs, are borrowed from this earlier work. Used by permission.
22. Robert Watts, The Rule of Faith and the Doctrine of Inspiration: The Carey Lectures for 1884 (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1885), 139.
23. Donald Macleod, “Jesus and Scripture,” in The Trustworthiness of God: Perspectives on the Nature of Scripture, eds. Paul Helm and Carl Trueman (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002), 73.
24. Quoted in John Wenham, Christ and the Bible, 3rd ed. (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2009), 20.
25. Many of these points are drawn from Macleod, “Jesus and Scripture,” 91, 95.
26. J. I. Packer, Truth and Power: The Place of Scripture in the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL: Harold Shaw, 1996), 55.
27. J. I. Packer, “Fundamentalism” and the Word of God (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1958), 61.
28. Ibid., 61–62.
29. Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Seven Volumes (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998–2010).
30. Old, Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, 6:546.
31. Ibid., 573.
32. Ibid., 574.
33. Old, Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures, 7:555.
34. Ibid., 556.
35. Ibid., 557–58.
36. D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, Academic, 1992), 9.
37. Jonathan Edwards, Thoughts on the Revival, in vol. 1 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004), 426.
38. A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Camp Hill, PA: Wing Spread Publishers, 1993), 17.
Scripture Index
Genesis
2:24 121–22
18:10 162
21:12 161
50:17 137
Exodus
3 174
23:21 137
32:1 178
32:1–14 173
32:7 177
32:9–10 177
32:10 176
32:11 174
32:11–13 174
32:13 175
32:14 176
32:31–32 182
32—33 4
33:1–3 184
33:5 139
33:7–11 185
33:12–13 186
33:14 186
33:15 140
33:15–16 186
33:18 188
Leviticus
13—15 143
15:1–12 143
15:1–13 135
Numbers
5 148–49
5:4 141
6:24–26 150
12:1–16 139
14:18 137
23:19 175–76
34:7 137
Deuteronomy
24:9 139
32:4 173
1 Samuel
15:29 176
2 Samuel
7:2 140
7:5–7 140
2 Kings
15:19 86
16:7–9 87
17 86
17:24 86
18:7 87
2 Chronicles
30:26 88
31:1 88
Job
38 21
Psalms
33:4 175
33:11 175
82 111
89:34 175
103:3–4 148
Isaiah
2:11 96
2:17 96
6:3 173
7:3 90
7:5 90
8:7 96
14:12–15 96
14:25 102
30:22 138
36 86
36:2–21 90
36:15, 18 91
36:19–20 91
36:22—37:1 92
37:2–4 93
37:5–7 94
37:8–13 95
37:10 96
37:11 96
37:14–20 97
37:20 98
37:21–35 100
37:22 100
37:22–29 100
37:23 100
37:24 100
37:24–25 100
37:28 101
37:29 101
37:30 101
37:35 101
37:36–37 102
37:38 103
40:11 74
46:10–11 175
Jeremiah
7:30 138
32:34 138
Jonah
3:4 178
3:10 178
Malachi
3:6 174
Matthew
5:17–19 114
6:9–10 190
7:21 45
7:21–23 45
8:11–12 157
9:36 51
9:37–38 187
11:23–24 56
12:38–42 116
13:24–30 48
13:44–46 55
14:33 55
16:18 105
19:3–6 121
19:4 122
19:5 121
21:43 157
23:23 115
24:9–11 16
24:24 102
24:35 176
Mark
7:19 133
10:27 120
12:36 122
Luke
4:16–30 58
5 145
5:12–13 145
8 145
8:13 48
8:40–44 146
8:40–56 146
8:45–48 147
8:49–54 147
8:54–56 147
9:62 48
11:8 5
11:9–13 6
12:40 102
15:1 68
15:1–2 67
15:2 68
15:2–3 67
15:4 71
15:5 73
15:6 70
15:7 68–69
15:8 71–72
15:9 70
15:10 68
15:12 74
15:12–16 74
15:13 74
15:14 75
15:15–16 75
15:17–20 75
15:18 76
15:19 76
15:21 77
15:23 70
15:24 78
15:25 79
15:25–30 79
15:26 79
15:28 79
15:29–30 79
15:31 80
15:32 80
19 50
19:10 73
19:18–19 14
24:13–35 144
24:25–27 145
John
3:2 56
6 50
6:14–15 53
6:16–21 55
6:28 53
6:29 53
6:30 54
6:31 54
6:34 54
6:35–36 55
6:37–39 62
6:44 62
6:47 54
6:51 55
6:59 56
6:60 56
6:60–66 47
6:61 58
6:62 59
6:63 58
6:64 59
6:65 61
6:67 59
6:67–69 59
6:67–71 48
6:68–69 59
6:70–71 60
7:1 58
8:21–24 59
8:31–32 57
8:37–38 57
8:44 57
8:45 58
8:47 58
8:51 58
8:59 58
10 114
10:1–11 34
10:31–38 110
10:35 112
11:17–27 34
12:48 58
14:1–7 33
15:10 58
15:11 58
Acts
1 180
2 180
2:29–41 37
3 180
4:4 180
4:5–12 35
4:24, 27–28 187
4:29–30 187
4:31 187
4:33 188
5:14 188
6 180
6:7 180
7 180
8 180
8:9–24 52
9 180
9:15 165
10 180
12 180
13 180
13:2 180
15:5–10 133
16 180
19 14
19:10 13
19:17 13
20 14
20:29 14
8:1 156
8:11 156
8:16–17 156
8:18 156
8:21 156
8:28 156
8:30 156
8:31 156
8:32 157
8:33 157
8:35 157
8:38–39 157
9:1–2 164
9:1–3 158
9:2 155
9:4–5 158
9:6–8 160
9:9 162
9:10–12 154
9—11 158
9:11–12 163
9:13 154
9:19–20 154
10:17 59
11:14 165
1 Corinthians
10:1–12 49
10:1–13 133–34
10:12 49
2 Corinthians
5:20 166
5:21 151
7:1 138
12:10 91
13:5 49
Ephesians
3:7 165
6:12 84
Philippians
1:21 20
1 Timothy
1:13 18
2 Timothy
1:8–9 17
1:9 18
1:10 19
1:11–12 20
1:13–14 24
1:15 14
3:1 17
3:12–13 17
3:16 131
3:16–17 155
4:5 45
Hebrews
2 49
2:3 49
3 49
4 49
6 49
9:8–14 133
10:1–10 133
10:2 49
10:19–22 46
10:23 49
10:23–25 46
10:27 50
10:29 50
10:31 50
10:35–36 50
13 149
13:8 174
13:10–13 150
James
1:2 15
1:17 174
1 John
1:8–9 109
2:18 48
2:19 48
3:4 137
3:13 88
4:16 173
Revelation
8 190
14:3–4 138
21:8 138
21:27 138
22:4 190