May We Meet in the Heavenly World by Lemuel Haynes

Akin is the president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he teaches courses in theology, preaching, and hermeneutics.

May our Lord by His grace and for His glory, use this series for the fame of His Name and the great good of His people.Ībout Danny Akin: Daniel L. The faithful preaching of His Word, as always, is essential to the health and vibrancy of His Body. These are exciting days for the Church of the Lord Jesus. Finally, for all who preach and teach the Bible, it is our hope and prayer you will be helped in your own ministry of the Word. Building Christ’s Church and extending the gospel to all the nations will be a consistent focus of this series. Third, we want a strong missional thread running throughout the series. In this context we are excited to show the appropriate differences that exist within in this preaching model. Second, we want to model faithful, biblical exposition. Above all we want to exalt and honor King Jesus. Now, we recognize in a project of this magnitude there may be some adjustments along the way, but as of today those are the men who will participate and the book(s) they have been assigned. And, 6 of the contributors are African-Americans which is a real plus in my judgment. Further, the Southern Baptists contributors represent the healthy diversity of theological perspectives that exist within our convention of churches within the parameters of the BF&M 2000. It will be apparent that the authors are all committed evangelicals, the majority are Southern Baptists, and most are on the younger side when it comes to age. We thought you might be encouraged and excited by the list of authors who are currently assigned to help us in this significant project, so I have listed them below. The goal is for the entire series to be complete in 10 years! We certainly need your prayers for that goal to be met!!!īy God’s grace we have enlisted an incredible array of contributors for the series. The initial volume will be “Exalting Jesus in the Pastoral Epistles.” David will produce 1 Timothy, Tony will write 2 Timothy and I will pen Titus.

David Platt, Tony Merida and I have the great honor of serving as the editors of the project as well as authoring together the first volume. In the spring 2013 the 1 st of a 40-volume preacher’s commentary entitled “Christ-Centered Exposition” will be published. In other words we talked about how faithful, verse by verse, exposition of the whole Bible could properly point to Christ as Jesus Himself taught us in text like John 5:39, Luke 24:25-27 and Luke 24:44-47. Danny Akin Commenting on a New Exciting Biblical Commentary SeriesĪt the SBC in Phoenix last year, David Platt, Tony Merida and I sat down with the great folks at Broadman & Holman to dream and brainstorm about the possibility of an expositor’s preaching commentary that would be both expositional and Christ-centered.

May We Meet in the Heavenly World by Lemuel Haynes