Theology That Bites Back
If weather permits, I wanted to bring your attention to this year’s Fight Laugh Feast Conference, which is being held October 1-3, at the Factory at Franklin, Tennessee. The topic is Holy Wars: Just War, the Crusades, and the Christian Life. Somewhere along the way, we wandered off the path by deciding that holiness was …
Dear Ehud, We have considered Christ in His offices of prophet and priests, and so we come now to the third one—the office of king. In His trial before the Sanhedrin, Jesus was convicted ...
“There is also a deep theological problem with the view that death antedated mankind. The Bible teaches that Adam produced death. The opposing view has to say that in some manner death produced Adam.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 20
Letter to the Editor: Great write-up of 5GW.I was struck a few years back by the insight that since both spiritual warfare and fifth generation warfare are a fight over truth, the Venn diagram ...
Introduction As Christians we all need to learn what Augustine was referring to with the phrase ordo amoris—the structuring of your loves. How do you prioritize all the things you do, and how do they rank when it comes to your love for Christ? At the same time, this must be balanced with Paul’s instruction …
“Everyone in the debate would willing to affirm a Flannelgraph version of the Flood, giraffe and all, if that is what the Bible taught, and everyone in the debate would be willing to affirm a planet creaky with age if that is what the Bible taught.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 18.
Introduction: Technology in warfare can certainly evolve and develop in ways that do not disrupt our basic understanding of what is going on. From the day that two tribes were throwing rocks at each ...
Introduction: One of the things we have wanted to do in our community is to figure out how to be “a Bible people” in all the details as we live together in the modern world. This entails learning how to think in biblical categories, and how to apply biblical principles to modern situations. And as …
“In Jesus Christ, we received the fullness of the wrath of God, and in Jesus Christ we receive the fullness of God’s pleasure in His well-beloved Son. This exchange, this glorious transaction, occurred on the Mercy Seat in the Great Heaven between the cherubim, and it is a mercy entirely covered in blood. Trying to clean the blood off does us no favors at all.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 15
