Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: Over the last year or so, from time to time you may have wondered to yourself why I have taken it into my head to go around talking about the 19th Amendment so much. This, along with my supposed interest in repealing the right of women to vote. Why on earth would I ever …
“No translation means exactly the same thing.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 11
Letter to the Editor: God isn't a cosmic sadist who loves to withhold blessing from His children. Fair. However—how do we speak about what looks very much like a pattern of intolerable ...
“I believe that the coming of the Christ fulfilled all of the Old Testament Scriptures and did so without retiring their moral and spiritual authority over us.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 8
Introduction: So let me begin with a brief discussion of the correspondence view of truth and the coherence view of “truths.” Pilate famously asked “what is truth?” when the Incarnate Truth was standing right in front of him (John 18:38). In an analogous way, sophomores and sophists ask what is truth? when the answer is …
Introduction: We have arrived at the conclusion of this gripping story, and we are now in a position to take from it the central lesson. That lesson has to do with the driving force of Haman’s malice, and how Mordecai’s leadership prevented the Jews from falling into the same trap as did Haman. The Text: …
[Justifying] “faith is the gift of God, lest any man decide to boast, and as the gift of God, it is the only kind of faith that God efficaciously gives—living faith. As living faith it is also an obedient faith, but only in the sense that the sculpted dust that was to be Adam was obedient when God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. God said live, and so he obediently came to life. The only actions this living and obedient faith perform as the instrument of justification are the actions of resting in and receiving the imputed righteousness of Christ.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 7
We serve and worship the incomparable God. The triune God revealed to us in Scripture is boundless, infinite, immense, and beyond all human ability to conceive. He is contained by no boxes, whether they be ornate temples built by industrious hands or intellectual temples build by clever minds. He is contained by no creaturely boxes. …
“I believe that, as Christian emissaries come to each of these nations to be discipled, the foundational cornerstone proclaimed by them is that Jesus is Lord. The first corollary to this is that Caesar isn’t lord, and so the first gift the Church brings, and the first point of repentance for the established authorities of each nation, is the liberating doctrine of limited government.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 7
