Theology That Bites Back
When God created our first parents, and placed them in a garden paradise, He was declaring His intention for us. He was being kind to Adam and Eve, and to all their descendants. He wanted us to exercise dominion in the world, filling it, subduing it, renewing it, and replenishing it. In order to do …
In the providence of God, every thread ties together. All things cohere in Christ, as we are told in Colossians 1, and it is not just the large and important things that cohere. The Lord taught us that the hairs on our heads are all numbered, and that not one sparrow falls to the ground …
Sermon Video Introduction: In the fourth century, the Council of Nicea settled the question of the Lord’s deity, and consequently became the touchstone that enables us to address various Trinitarian ...
“What does the Holy Spirit like best in a preacher? The Spirit most delights in the preaching of Christ.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 63
“A blind, purposeless and material process does not and cannot know that it is blind, or purposeless, or material. It cannot know anything. If thought is simply the froth on the waves of our brain activity, then one of the first things that thought loses is the ability to know that there is even such a thing as brain activity, or froth for that matter. If human argumentation is simply the epiphenomena that our brain chemistry produces, then there is absolutely no reason to trust human argumentation—including the arguments that urge us to believe that argumentation is simply the epiphenomena that our brain chemistry produces. If reason is simply what these chemicals do under these conditions and at this temperature, then we cannot know that such things as ‘chemicals’ exist, and we certainly cannot know about ‘conditions’ and ‘temperatures.’”
The Light From Behind the Sun, pp. 54-55
“Reformed preaching is declaring biblical truth to promote biblical spirituality as it was rediscovered in the Reformation of the sixteenth century.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 58
“In my view, whatever form the argument takes—although this may be just me—it is a slam-dunk, knock-down, set-the-tattered-remains-on-fire argument.”
The Light From Behind the Sun, p. 53
Color on Both Sides of the Road: And as always, we also want you to look at more . . . And About Time: Heh: Isn’t Evolution Simply a Marvel?: If you are still trying to banish the last vestiges of Darwin from your heart, make sure to watch the second video below . . …
“Self-centered preaching produces self-centered hearers.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 34
