Last weekend was John Piper’s “Why We Believe the Bible” seminar for The Bethlehem Institute. Several in attendance asked that we make a few booklists available that Pastor Piper referred to during the seminar.

There are 3 categories:

  • The formation of the canon
  • The reliability of the New Testament
  • Refuting the claims of some recent critics

We disagree with some of these scholars on other points of doctrine, however their work on the Bible makes us profoundly thankful for them.

The Canon of the New Testament

The Reliability of the New Testament

Responses to Recent Critics

More on TBI Seminars

Pastor Piper normally teaches five of these weekend TBI seminars each year. They run from 7:00 to 9:00 on Friday night and then 9:00 to 12:00 on Saturday morning. If you’re in the Twin Cities area (or if you want to come from out of town, as some do), here are the dates (and a couple of the topics) for upcoming seminars:

  • March 7-8, 2008 – TULIP, Part One
  • March 14-15, 2008 – TULIP, Part Two
  • September 12-13, 2008 – TBA
  • November 7-8, 2008 – TBA
  • January 16-17, 2009 – TBA
  • April 3-4, 2009 – TBA

Topic: The Bible  

David Mathis (@davidcmathis) is an elder at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Twin Cities, and works as executive pastoral assistant to John Piper. He and his wife Megan have twin sons (Carson and Coleman) and live in Minneapolis. David is co-editor (with John Piper) of Thinking, Loving, Doing, most recently, and Finish the Mission, forthcoming. Yep, he plays rec softball and went yard in his last game.