Theology That Bites Back
From the Credenda Archives (1995)Volume 7/Number 3 Serious Christians have always had an uneasy relationship with popular entertainment, and the difficulty is certainly understandable. Presented with the problem of recreation and entertainment, we usually find Christians divided into two clusters. Some are entirely too comfortable with whatever the world dishes up in the name of …
“There is a vast hierarchy of instruments below that—many bricks come below the capstone. But there is only one capstone. But none of those lesser bricks, lesser instruments, result in salvation necessarily. True evangelical faith does.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 800
Letter to the Editor: In your July 2 letters, you mentioned VidAngel as a possible solution for consuming video content that would otherwise be unwholesome. I've struggled a bit with the ...
“Faith is the sole instrument by which a person may receive the blessing of Christ’s righteousness imputed to him. Now when we say ‘sole instrument’ we do not mean that no other instruments are involved, but that no other instruments are involved in the way that faith is . . . the only instrumental cause of justification that leaves no remainder is faith.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 799-800
The small boy stopped and chunked some dirt clods at the fence post. Ten throws, six hits. Better than yesterday. Dave turned homeward again, pack over his shoulder. Coming around a corner, he saw the house down at the end of the dirt lane, about half a mile away. The road sloped gradually down for …
On Loving the Standard: Sermon Video Introduction: The chances are pretty good that over the years you have heard me say something like this. You task as parents is not to get your kids to ...
“Those who hold that the covenant of works was not gracious must, of necessity, deny the imputation of the active obedience of Christ”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 795
Down With the House of Hanover!: Trippy: Good Stuff Right There: More here . . . A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Why, Yes: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Ekatarina Stutz Featured Product: She Shall Be Called Woman:This book is the third in a series of collected wedding homilies. You should get this one, but …
“What do you do? You have a baptized man and woman, professing faith in Jesus and in the truth of the Christian religion, who are living sober and decent lives, and w ho could join any Calvinist church in Europe. They want to have their child baptized. What do you do? The Halfway Covenant said okay, all right already.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 791
