Theology That Bites Back
According to the prayer book, there are various scriptural reasons why God instituted marriage among the children of men. God gave us marriage to help fend off and forestall sexual sin, and He also gave us marriage in order that He might obtain a godly seed, as Malachi puts it (Mal. 2:15). But the third …
Palm Sunday 2024: Sermon Video Introduction: One of the things that happened in the medieval period was that the church calendar began to get cluttered up with numerous saints’ days and celebrations, ...
“An adulterer is really married—that’s in part what makes him an adulterer. A faithful husband is really married too, but there is far more to the story than the two of them being ‘really married.’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 620
“But those Reformed disputants who could have known better, and who had a duty to know better, and who have persisted in circulating falsehoods anyway, what can I say? It must be rough having a conscience that looks like a rainy Saturday in Pittsburgh.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 619
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“If all things are mine, then how could it be possible for the obedience of Christ to not be mine? The fact that the New Testament goes out of its way to show the life of Christ as a recapitulation of the history of Israel, but with this time Israel doing it right, makes this, in my view, undeniable. In all that He is and does, Christ is Christ for us. He does not recapitulate the history of Israel got show off how much He knows. It is not literary doodling. It is clearly redemptive—His entire life is salvific. The fact of it in the Incarnation is salvific, the trajectory of it in His recapitulation of Israel’s history is also, and the culmination of it in His death and resurrection is the capstone of our salvation.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 614
Introduction: Since discussions of Christian Nationalism are now officially a thing, I want to make sure that I do not shirk when it comes to any responsibility I might have to help make the case. ...
“My position is that Scripture is senior to the Confessions, and that the Confessions are senior to (and quite different from) popular American bapterian readings of the Confessions . . . The system is fine. The Confessions are fine. The problem is that Reformed bapterians have as many problem passages in the Confessions as they do in the Scriptures.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 606
Letter to the Editor: Hello dear brother Doug, I thank God for you! I have a fellow pastor who is working through how to discipline his wife. He believes that as he spanks his children (not ...
