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 ...
King of the Jews
Adam First
“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
Letters in the Dregs of July
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 ...
Athletics in the Christian Community #2
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 …
On the Age of the Earth
“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.
5GW, Invisible Borders, and the Politics of Swarms
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 ...
Athletics and Christian Community #1
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 …
Covered in Crimson
“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
Keeping Standards Up
Scandal Is the Point
“God made it [penal substitution] scandalous on purpose in order to keep our number of refined theologians to a minimum.”
Concise and to the Point, p. 14