No Christianity without the Church
The way in which the modern evangelical populace in North America regards the church’s corporate identity and the necessity of corporate worship is in dire need of correction.
The church of centuries past had a far more robust and biblical understanding of the church’s corporate self-conception and the need for corporate discipleship and gathering. We can and ought to recapture and promote this past self-conception and ecclesiastically corporate mentality. [Reformation21] Editor’s Note : This post has been adapted from a longer article... Continue Reading
The History of Covenant Theology
The covenant theology of the fathers stressed the unity of the covenant of grace, and the superiority of the new covenant over the old.
Throughout the history of the church there has always been a theology of the covenants. The Reformation recovery of the gospel and the biblical distinction between grace and works made it possible for Reformed theology to construct a detailed and fruitful covenant theology. Until recently, it was widely held that covenant theology was created... Continue Reading
Christian Scholarship as an Act of Servanthood
The pulpit is worthy of the highest scholarship.
We live in perilous days. The Church needs your scholarship to support believers making their way through a chaotic world, “a strange land”…where everything they have known is being deconstructed and reassembled without the Creator’s blueprint. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the... Continue Reading
The Story of the Temple
The temple mediates the presence of God to his people.
We will forever be in God’s temple, the eternal place where God is known, served, worshipped, and present. Redeemed sinners, then sanctified, and glorified, will dwell forever with a Holy God because the Lamb who was slain ransomed them and ushers them into his presence forever in the perfect temple dwelling of God. Temples... Continue Reading
Why Having “No Creed but Christ” is a Serious Mistake
Creeds and confessions do not seek to replace God’s Word, rather they aim to summarize scripture's teachings for the benefit of God’s people.
So how does one claiming a “no creed but Christ” hermeneutic deny the clarity of scripture? It aims to presume, if not intentionally, that no one before him has been able to see the truth of scripture. Such a person needs no ecumenical guidance in their doctrinal discernment—they are their own authority. As a... Continue Reading
Eight Short Lessons From the Essendon CEO Saga
Don't expect a level playing field.
There’s a naive optimism that somehow if we just keep to our patch as Christians, and maintain the line between the public square and our lives, that we will be okay. It’s been a breathless 24 hours. Essendon CEO, Andrew Thorburn was barely in the job a day and then he resigned. And lots... Continue Reading
The Temptations of the Intellectual
Some people say things that are false because they cannot see the truth; others, because they have blinded themselves to the truth; but the last, because they do see the truth and they hate it.
The physiophobe [one who hates that which exists] knows very well, to take one area of currently willed madness, that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, but he hates it, and he would burn the world to a cinder to compel people to lie, to join him in the reality-hating... Continue Reading
Four Questions about the Love of God to Ask Jehovah’s Witnesses
According to JW theology, Jesus isn’t God, only Jehovah is.
The verses about God demonstrating his love through sending Jesus to be a sacrifice only make sense if Jesus is God. If Jesus isn’t God, like JWs claim, the verses would communicate that Jesus, a created being, has greater love for us than Jehovah does. However, if Jesus is God, the verses make perfect sense.... Continue Reading
Compromise in Biblical Inerrancy and Authority of the Bible is an Existential Threat to the Church
Churches begin to decline when they they make compromises in the final and sufficient authority of the Bible.
The average preaching in churches today leaves much to be desired- oftentimes, the congregation is fed with crumbs instead of bread. Leaders themselves must first be grounded in the bible and doctrine if they are to be able to teach the whole counsel of God to their flocks, but many leaders simply lack motivation and... Continue Reading
Why Are Men in Crisis?
Young men aren’t forming social bonds with real, live people, even the kinds of bonds that have historically captured their attention.
Christians have an answer for a world that obliterates the helpful aspects of sexual difference, pacifies men with distractions and addictions, and promises limitless sexual freedom while dismantling the family. This corresponds with a dramatic crisis in terms of sociability. As Andrew Yang noted, “Roughly one-third of men are either unemployed or out of the workforce,” and... Continue Reading
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