The opportunity to read and review Daniel Hyde’s new book From the Pen of Pastor Paul was a
tremendous blessing to this pastor. I
shepherd in a town some call the most isolated in lower forty-eight states, and
at times it can be a very lonely and discouraging place. Reading Hyde’s book was like meeting with a fellow
pastor and talking about ministry. It
was convicting, encouraging and restorative. God used From the Pen of Pastor
Paul to reignite my passion for faithful gospel ministry in a hard place. God’s providence and timing are indeed perfect.
From the Pen of Pastor
Paul is a book of expositional sermons on First and Second
Thessalonians. It’s chocked full of
pastoral theology. The exposition is
clear, edifying and challenging. Hyde sometimes
strays from the text in his exposition, but always in a way that is faithful to
the Scriptures. He handles the most controversial passages in the Thessalonian
epistles, those having to do with eschatology, with grace and wisdom. Some may disagree with Hyde’s interpretation
of these passages because he is not a believer in what I call popular eschatology. What is popular eschatology? It is what one
finds in books like the Left Behind Series.
