Introduction: In a recent edition of Themelios (48.3), my fellow CREC minister Jeremy Sexton offered his critique of postmillennialism. Now to be blunt . . . he did far more than offer a critique. ...
A Seven-fold Rejoinder to Jeremy Sexton
From Absolutely Nothing
Before the creative Word was spoken, no thing was. Before the void was filled, or even existed to be filled, there was God the Speaker, God the Spoken, and God the Interpreter, and they had not yet brought the heavens and earth into being. But when they did, the spheres and stars and waters and …
Things That Go Bump in the Night
Introduction: I think it is safe to say that many Christians have extricated themselves from the materialistic account of the cosmos. This is great, so far as it goes, but we have now entered an era ...
That Spirit of Antichrist
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Yeats, The Second Coming Introduction: In order ...
On Authority, Order, and Equality within the Godhead
Bumped to the top so that people can follow the comments/answers. I had made a comment on Twitter that no one had registered their concerns here. The problem with that comment is that I had forgotten to turn the comments on. The fault was entirely mine, but there was no guile in it—just incompetence. I …
Justifying Faith Has No Side Hustles
Introduction: Tom Hicks and Garrett Walden recently fired up their keyboards in order to interact with "the Moscow doctrine" on justification. Their article can be found here. The point of the article ...
Mud Fence Ugly
Introduction: It is commonplace for traditionalists to describe the well-balanced life as built on the foundation stones of truth, goodness, and beauty. This structural support seems intuitive ...
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Introduction: In the aftermath of our blowout holidays, it is not uncommon to survey something of a culinary debris field—half-finished pies, cold turkey, a measuring cup full of gravy, half ...
Bat-Guano Crazy
Introduction: Certain topics are guaranteed to generate troll-swarms, and trying to be sensible about Judaism is one of them. I am actually tempted to open up the comments on this post in order ...
You are the Man, and You Are Responsible
Over many years of counseling and teaching, I have discovered that one of the most difficult lessons for men to learn is the distinction between guilt and responsibility. I believe that this is a difficult ...