10 Things You Should Know About the Bible’s Teaching on Men and Women
Maleness and femaleness are creational, not contractual
“Humanity’s binary gender design as male and female reflects in some mysterious way the nature of God. While sharing a common humanity, the man and the woman are unique and complementary rather than identical.” 1. We were created male and female by divine design. According to the Genesis creation account, God created humanity male... Continue Reading
The Trinity: Impassible Love and Hate
God does not experience sinful emotions nor involuntary emotions
“Our passions ebb and flow in response to the changing world for we ourselves are subject to change. God is without passions, he is not subject to change, but he is not without hatred and he is not without love.” A month before our son was born my wife came home from the baby... Continue Reading
Revelation and Christian Ethics
Our firm basis for knowing the true, the good, and the right is "divine revelation"
“The departure from divine revelation has brought our culture to chaos in the area of ethics. We have lost our basis of knowledge, our epistemological foundation, for discovering the good.” At the heart of Christian ethics is the conviction that our firm basis for knowing the true, the good, and the right is divine... Continue Reading
Divine Dew for Dry Souls
Has your soul ever seemed like a desert?
So, dry soul, look up. It is the Lord alone who can refresh you and reinvigorate you. He can make the desert sand blossom into a rose. Each of His three Persons can drench you with dew. Even one of His attributes can saturate your soul. Just one of His words can break the hardest clod. “Lord, come, beautify... Continue Reading
Pro-Nicene Theology: Entryways and Ineffability (Part 1)
The doctrine of the Trinity serves as the fundamental lodestar of all Christian belief
The common criticism of systematic theology suggests that it is an effort (whether intended or not) to put God in a box. Control. Manipulation. Sanitizing. These are the watchwords against such an agenda or effect. That there is a version of Christian doctrine which does so cannot be gainsaid, and we might note that suspicions... Continue Reading
Drag Queen in the Nave
The attempt by rebellious creatures to create their own reality will ultimately fail.
Our surviving gothic cathedrals and organs now utter pagan heresies and cannot revive the hearts of men. We need a mighty fortress back in our lives–the presence and knowledge of Almighty God, whose pre-existing Being gave us all life, meaning and dignity. This spiritual fortress may still be evoked by the stirring sounds of a... Continue Reading
How to Not Grow Weary in Doing Good
We can be tempted to grow weary of doing good because our seeds seem small and powerless
The good news is we don’t have to do monumental works. We just need to plant seeds – a simple prayer, a word of encouragement, work on memorizing one scripture. A small gift to missions. Our faith is not in our power or the size of our seeds but in God’s character: And let... Continue Reading
A Beginner’s Guide to ‘Free Will’
Can a person’s acts be justly regarded as praiseworthy or blameworthy if those acts flow from a good or evil nature that inclines him in only one way?
“Glad submission to God’s authority, and to God’s superior value and beauty, is something we are not able to do. This is not because we are kept from doing what we prefer to do. It is because we prefer our own authority, and treasure our own value, above God’s.” Before the fall of Adam,... Continue Reading
I Am (Still) A Complementarian
I think there is still much value in the term "complementarian"
“With our culture’s continued march toward sexual anarchy, the term complementarian still helps explain what the Bible teaches about men and women. And it does so by standing together with other brothers and sisters who labor to teach a Biblical understanding of sex and gender.” My good friend, Todd Pruitt, recently wrote a post... Continue Reading
Eternal Subordination of the Son and Books for Women
My hope is that the current debate over the Trinity would encourage us to consider carefully all of the books we use
Kassian and Wolgemuth explain that, in their view, authority and submission are rooted in the Trinity. They teach that without an authority/submission relationship between God the Father and God the Son, authority and submission are meaningless: Continuing to look at the influence of the Eternal Subordination of the Son (ESS/EFS/ERAS) doctrine in evangelical publications,... Continue Reading