The Unseen Realm is a true resource, but it is the kind of resource that you are likely to read clean through, and then read through some other time, and then keep it nearby in order to refresh your memory on this or that. Too many contemporary Christians are modernists when … [Read more...]
Wisdom and the Wise: Themes in Proverbs 1
Introduction: As we begin a short series of messages on “themes in Proverbs,” we begin with the topic of wisdom—wisdom and the wise. This book is part of what is called the Wisdom Literature of Scripture, and so in one sense everything the book teaches falls under the heading of … [Read more...]
Humility Is An Inference
When it comes to the duty of humility, the body is generally divided into two large sections. There are those who do not think of humility much, for the whole thing seems entirely unrealistic, and then there are those who pay a great deal of direct attention to this duty, and it … [Read more...]
Somebody Touched Me
In Luke 8, we are told the story of the woman with a hemorrhage who approached Christ in the press of the crowd, touched Him, and was healed. She came to him in true faith, but as she thought, anonymously, and yet was healed. But it was not a secret to Christ. He felt the healing … [Read more...]
Review: The Life of God in the Soul of Man
The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very good book over all, and one with some magnificent passages. View all my reviews … [Read more...]
The Solution is Seen for What It Is
“He who knows, with a vivid and vital self-consciousness, what guilt means, knows what atonement means as soon as presented” (Shedd, Homiletic and Pastoral Theology, p. 275). … [Read more...]
The Truth Has Preachers, Not Sponsors
“We want to be careful that we don’t participate in an unseemly scramble for the big names to adorn our position, as though theology were a particular kind of shaving cream that needs a second baseman for the Yankees to endorse it” (Writers to Read, p. 66). … [Read more...]
Review: Slavery in Early Christianity
Slavery in Early Christianity by Jennifer A. Glancy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very good book, a wealth of information. Jennifer Glancy is at times hindered in her analysis by assuming too much purported differences between different authors of Scripture, and this … [Read more...]
On Wearing the Zeitgeist’s Demento-Hat
Everybody is making a big deal out of the fact that Hillary, if elected, would be the first woman president. Have we not grown beyond this yet? It is evident on the face of it that, if elected, she would only be the first known woman president. What matters is … [Read more...]
Sort of a Trade Off
Not Wowsers at All
“We are victims of anachronistic slander if we think that the Puritans were in any way, well, puritanical. That term came to be applied to the bluenoses and wowsers well after the Puritan party had brought back into Christian discipleship an incarnational embrace of all material … [Read more...]
Including Holiness, Guilt, and Blood
“For this doctrine of expiation in the Christian system, is like a ganglion in the human frame; it is a knot of nerves; it is the oscillating centre where several primal and vital truths meet in unity” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 272). … [Read more...]
The Content Cluster Muster (09.29.16)
Learning to Say "My Gospel" Pastor Toby Sumpter and Trinity Reformed Church recently hosted an evangelism conference, that by all accounts was quite good. Here is the outline of Toby's talk. CLICK HERE Here is audio of all the talks: CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO Follow … [Read more...]
Like a Seed
“Every culture has a religious center, and every religion, like a seed, given water, sunlight, and nutrients, grows up into a particular plant” (Writers to Read, p. 62). … [Read more...]
Bringing a Feather Duster to a Gun Fight
So here is the situation. Richard Swinburne was invited to give a talk at the Society of Christian Philosophers. His topic, on which he had previously published, was to defend the biblical and traditional view of human sexuality. Because his talk offended some, the SCP apologized … [Read more...]
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