Mark Twain’s wife was a long-suffering woman, and one day she walked up to him and calmly repeated back to him every foul word she had ever heard him use, and he had probably used them all. When she was quite done, he looked at her and said, “My dear, you know the words, but …
Implicit Faith
Book 3/Chapter 2 Faith in Christ (section 1) 1. Is it hard for us to keep the law? 2. What inadequate notion of faith does Calvin address first? 3. What two things must we know? 4. How does Christ the God/man help us in this? Knowledge and faith (section 2) 1. What fiction does Calvin …
Collision Teaser
Work on the Collision release continues apace. In the meantime, here is an opening teaser — the first thirteen minutes or so. On a related note, the debate book connected to the movie, Is Christianity Good for the World?, is for sale at Canon Press. Moreover, it is for sale on sale there, although the …
Why the Devil Won’t Argue Like a Gentleman
So let me ask those of you who are interested in this kind of thing to watch this clip of an interview with N.T. Wright on the subject of homosexuality, and why he hasn’t written on it. (HT: Justin Taylor, Denny Burk) Watch it a couple times, and then read on. Let me begin by …
The Work of the Spirit
Book 3/Chapter 1 The Spirit bond (section 1) 1. What has to happen before all Christ’s benefits become ours? 2. What is the bond that unites us to Christ? The universal Spirit (section 2) 1. What does the Spirit do for all living creatures? 2. But what does He do for the believers? 3. Does …
The New Atheism
An interview about the “new atheism” that Creation Ministries International gave me can be found here.
Humanity 2.0/Romans 19
INTRODUCTION: Â In Adam, with Humanity 1.0, the system crashed. God could have written it off as a wasted project, but in His grace He did not. In Christ, the prototype for the next version was revealed, and subsequent human history has been the period of beta testing for Humanity 2.0. The last day will be …
Hate Crimes, Sex, and the Love of God
As the lunacy of hate crimes legislation wends its way through our corridors of power, more and more wise believers are hunkering down for difficult times. Soon the denunciation of real sin from the pulpit — always unpopular with Christians — will be illegal as well. We are in that part of the movie where …
Grace Before Merit
Book 2/Chapter 17 Grace and merit (section 1) 1. When discussing the merit of Christ, what must we remember lies behind it? 2. Did “that man” deserve to be the only begotten Son of God? Love and hate (section 2) 1. What was God’s ineffable demeanor toward us? Christ’s obedience (section 3) 1. What did …
Right Through the Sham
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) Growing Dominion, Part 166 “The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out” (Prov. 28:11) When it comes to matters of wisdom about wealth, there are obviously many things that many poor people do …