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This book should release by August 2026:

Carson, D. A., and Andrew David Naselli. Exegetical Fallacies. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2026.

Dr. Carson wrote the first two editions, which released in 1984 and 1996. Baker Academic plans to release the third edition thirty years after the second edition.

While Dr. Carson’s voice still predominates in the third edition, I have updated Exegetical Fallacies in three ways:

I have removed some less relevant examples and added new ones, including some new fallacies. This third edition is about 30% longer than the second edition.Instead of using only labels as the headings for fallacies throughout the book, I have labeled each fallacy, and then I concisely define that fallacy. This makes the book a bit more user-friendly.I have lightly updated the style to make it as accessible as I could for non-experts. I have attempted to make it readable for beginning theology students as well as stimulating for those who are intermediate or more advanced.

Related: Tools to Study the Bible and Theology.

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Earlier this year my fellow pastors assigned to me the task of preparing a list of recommended resources for our church’s website. I spent part of August working on this project, and it snowballed into a book-length document—an 80-page PDF (over 30,000 words).

“ Tools to Study the Bible and Theology ”I organize the tools into various categories, and I annotate them.It may be a bit overwhelming to see such a long document of tools, so at the beginning of the document, I include a list of ten tools to prioritize .I want to encourage my church to continually benefit from excellent tools that help them study the Bible and theology.You may want to add some of the tools I recommend to your reading queue, and in the future you may want to search this document when you are looking for helpful tools on particular topics.

Take up and read!

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[image error]I am preaching a series on 1 Timothy to Christ the King Church in Stillwater. When it came time to preach on 1 Timothy 2:9–15, I zoomed out and preached four sermons on God’s good design for men and women, and then I zoomed back in and preached five sermons on 1 Timothy 2:9–15. The videos are below, and audio is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts (I use Overcast).

1. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 1 of 4—A Spectrum of Views and Two Types of Complementarianism | March 30, 2025

2. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 2 of 4—Five Exhortations | April 6, 2025

3. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 3 of 4—Three Arguments for Biblical Patriarchy | April 13, 2025

4. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 4 of 4—Three More Arguments for Biblical Patriarchy | April 27, 2025

5. How Should Women Dress? (1 Timothy 2:9–10) | May 4, 2025

6. A Woman Must Learn Quietly and Submissively (1 Timothy 2:11–12) | May 18, 2025

7. Two Reasons a Woman Must Learn Quietly and Submissively (1 Timothy 2:13–14) | May 25, 2025

8. Responding to Objections to 1 Timothy 2:11–14 | June 15, 2025

9. A Woman Will Be Saved through Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:15) | June 22, 2025

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Bethlehem College and Seminary hosted the “Theology for Everyone” Conference on April 4–5, 2025. The videos are now available for the five talks and the panel:

John Piper | Providence

Fred Sanders | The Holy Spirit

Tom Schreiner | Justification

Greg Allison | The Church

Andy Naselli | Predestination

Panel

Related:

Predestination: An Introduction

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The member covenant of Christ the King Church says that we commit “to encourage fathers to bring up their children with a Christian education and enculturation.” Here is a letter I coauthored with my fellow pastors to our church regarding Christian enculturation and government schools (PDF).

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In this free little book, I give advice about how to decide what to do:

Naselli, Andrew David. God’s Will and Making Decisions. Field Guides. Kingsburg, CA: The Mentoring Project, 2025.

Free PDFFree Spanish PDFFree audiobook (at the top of this page)

After disagreeing with what I call “the subjective view” of finding God’s will, I propose four diagnostic questions as a set of principles to help you decide what to do:

Holy Desire: What do you want to do?Open Door: What opportunities are open or closed?Wise Counsel: What do wise people who know you well and know the situation well advise you to do?Biblical Wisdom: What do you think you should do based on Bible-saturated wisdom?

Then I give five closing exhortations:

Don’t be anxious. Trust God.Don’t be sulky. Be holy and happy.Don’t be inflexible. Be willing to adjust your plans.Don’t overthink past decisions. Strain forward to what lies ahead.Don’t be cowardly. Be courageous.

Related: “God’s Will and Decision-Making” (August 15, 2012)

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Here is the new website for Christ the King Church in Stillwater: www.ChristTheKing.build.

About four months ago, I announced that my family is planning to plant Christ the King Church with some dear friends. If you have been praying for us, thank you. There has been so much to do (this is probably the most I have felt saturated with responsibilities), and God has been kind to us each step of the way. It has been a joy to work with the Dodds, Williams, and Colestock families to prepare to make disciples who glorify God in all of life for all of Stillwater.

We are planning to covenant together as a church on the first Sunday in January, and we plan to start out meeting on Sunday mornings at the beautiful Historic Courthouse in downtown Stillwater. Here’s some drone footage of that building and area from on overcast day in late October (thanks to my former student Kyle Grindberg):

We are asking God to empower us to be faithful and fruitful in this good work. Would you please pray for us? And would you consider partnering with us by investing in this good work?

For more info, see www.ChristTheKing.build.

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Christ the King Church (the church we are in the process of planting in Stillwater, Minnesota) is planning to sing selections mostly from the hymnal Treasury of Psalms and Hymns. Here’s why and how.

Why Our Church Plans to Use the Treasury of Psalms and Hymns

A good hymnal collects high-quality songs that span centuries and continents and cultures. It is a rich devotional resource for churches and families and individuals, and it fosters beautiful harmonious singing that stirs our hearts. Hymnals also make it easier to trace the argument of a hymn from line to line and stanza to stanza (which is harder to do with slides).

We plan to use the Treasury of Psalms and Hymns for at least seven reasons:

It helps us obey Ephesians 5:18b–19: “Be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart” (cf. Col 3:16). The three terms translated “psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” appear in psalm titles in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, so God clearly wants Christians to sing the psalms. Our church plans to sing all 150 psalms. Selections 1–481 in the Treasury of Psalms and Hymns are various settings for the 150 psalms—usually at least three selections for each psalm. Selections 482–1135 are other hymns, including most classic hymns that Reformed churches sing.It has more songs than most hymnals (1,135!).It includes songs that Christians have been singing for hundreds of years as well as ones that are more recent.It sets the music to a very singable pitch, especially for men.It is more affordable than most hymnals.It includes excellent indexes and online resources, including free recordings available for each song.It arranges hymns 482–854 under the five headings that our church plans to follow as the gospel-shaped structure for our worship service: (1) Call to Worship, (2) Confession, (3) Consecration, (4) Communion, and (5) Commission (cf. Jeffrey Meyers, The Lord’s Service ). That does not mean that we may sing those selections only if we are in that particular part of the worship service, but that organization is helpful for us.How Our Church Plans to Use the Treasury of Psalms and Hymns

We plan to use the Treasury of Psalms and Hymns for most of what we sing together, and if you meet with us, we encourage you to prepare for the upcoming Sunday worship service by listening to and practicing what we plan to sing together:

We encourage you to practice singing the selections that we plan to sing together during the upcoming worship service. When our church begins in early 2025, God willing, we aim to upload a draft online of the Worship Service Guide for the upcoming Sunday worship service by 5:00pm each Monday so that families may start practicing those psalms and hymns together on Monday evenings.We encourage you to own copies of the Treasury of Psalms and Hymns so that you can use it to sing at home. Once you own a copy of the hymnal, you may have access to an online folder that includes a PDF of the hymnal as well as free recordings for each selection. (You may request access using the contact form here.)We encourage you to listen to selections from the Treasury of Psalms and Hymns on Youtube. If you listen to the selections once or twice a day the week prior to singing them together with the church, your joy while singing them may increase.We encourage you to see and listen to our upcoming selections in the Sing Your Part app. It works as a web app on a computer and as an iOS app on an iPhone and iPad, and it recently became available on the Google Play Store for Android. If you select “Christ the King Church (Stillwater, MN)” in the app, then you can see and hear what we plan to sing in our upcoming worship service. In the app you can adjust a song’s tempo, and you can adjust the volume of each of the four parts (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) so that you can hear your part better. When our church begins in early 2025, God willing, we plan to purchase a family subscription for members. A subscription gives you access to all of the resources in the app—not just the songs that we plan to sing in the upcoming worship service. Between now and then, the good folks who operate the Sing Your Part app are giving us complimentary access to the app.

Note to leaders of other churches: If you would like to consider setting your church up with the Sing Your Part app, you may schedule a 30-minute call with Isaiah Holt, CEO of Crescendo Software.

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New article:

Naselli, Andrew David. “Politics, Conscience, and the Church: The Why, What, and How of Political Disagreement (And a Test Case).” Christ Over All, 9 September 2024.

It updates an article I coauthored with Jonathan Leeman four years ago by tweaking it throughout and by adding a new section at the end: “Test Case: May Christians in America Vote for a Pro-choice Candidate?”

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My school just published this short article:

Naselli, Andrew David. “Three Reflections on Being a Pastor and a Professor.” Bethlehem College and Seminary, 16 August 2024.

I expand on these three reflections:

It is helpful to lay out a spectrum of six options for being a pastor or professor.It is good for seminary professors to be pastors as they train pastors.Pastor-professors labor to build up Christ’s church.

Related:

Announcing a New Church Plant3 Reflections on Evangelical Academic PublishingApplication to Bethlehem College and Seminary (Completing the initial step will take less than 10 minutes.)

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