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DeRouchie’s 2016 Resources
Books What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus’ Bible, contributing editor. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2013. Reviewed at booksataglance.com (Oct, 2014) and in WTJ 76 (2014); JETS 57.4 (2014); DBSJ 19 (2014); CTR 12.2 (2015); Them 40.2...
Isaiah—Celebrating the Servant Savior
Isaiah rebukes Israel’s rejection of God’s kingship while sounding forth the everlasting promise of God's universal kingdom that will come through the peace-establishing, justice-working Servant King, who will reign over transformed ethnic Israelites and...
If Your Right Hand Causes You to Sin: Ten Biblical Reflections on Masturbation
Sexual intimacy within marriage is a beautiful gift from God. It’s an outlet for play and passion, and it nurtures closeness with your spouse, supplying a unique context for giving and receiving love. But as with all God’s good gifts (1 Timothy 4:4), the devil seeks...
Finding Joy Amidst Life’s Enigmas: A Message on Ecclesiastes 11:7–12:1
DeRouchie presented the following message at "Indulge: Spiritual Appetites Need No Bounds," a conference on the future of Christian Hedonism held at Bethlehem College & Seminary, 7–8 October 2016. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is...
Five Ways to Help Our Kids After the Election
We have just witnessed an unprecedented (and unpresidential) presidential election. How are our kids — five-year-olds, ten-year-olds, fifteen-year-olds — processing what has just happened? What are they seeing, thinking, and hearing as they watch the news and talk...
Leader and Savior
A Prayer: LEADER AND SAVIOR (Acts 5:31) God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior. (Acts 5:31) Highly exalted are you, O Lord, Seated enthroned at your Father’s side. Adorned with power, crown, and sword, Our hope rests in you––Leader and Guide. Though...
Endorsement: THE RADICAL BOOK FOR KIDS
A new book for kids: I am excited about this new book that releases today: Thornton, Champ. The Radical Book for Kids: Exploring the Roots and Shoots of Faith. Greensboro, NC: New Growth, 2016. 272 pp. You can download a sample here. Here is my endorsement: Super...
Why Must I Obey?
TITLE: Why Must I Obey? Have you ever heard a child ask, “Why do I have to obey?” As a father of six kids (ages seven to seventeen), I have perceived this question often in the hearts of my children. I want not only to shape their actions but also to help them...
Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go
I have six kids, ages seven to seventeen, and I believe that few callings are as high as shaping them to see and savor the beauties of Christ and to love the nations as he does. In my years of pastoral ministry and parenting, I have regularly encountered confusion...
The Story of God
TITLE: The Story of God: How Scripture Fits Together and Points to Christ SUMMARY: The Bible is precious—all of it, for in it we find detailed the grand story of God pursuing sinners through the revelation of his Son. History is His Story. In this eight part series,...
About Jason S. DeRouchie
Dr. Jason DeRouchie (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a churchman and a passionate teacher driven to exalt Jesus from the Old Testament and to help Christians better grasp why the initial three-fourths of the Bible matters for Christians. He is Research Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology and Rich and Judy Hastings Endowed Chair of Old Testament Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He also serves as Content Developer and Global Trainer with Hands to the Plow Ministries and as a pastor of Sovereign Joy Baptist Church in the northland of Kansas City, MO.