From the heart: The diary of a departing pastor
Religious Liberalism, the current mantra that underlies PCUSA policies, programs and pronouncements, “will fail”
“In a denomination which tolerates open heresy from the pulpit and the seminary podium, one might think that any idea is allowed. After all, it has gone without a single heresy trial in almost 60 years, and has no list of essential beliefs,” says Sykes. But there is “one charge alone, without any proof or trial, [that] can be used at best to blackball a pastor, or at worst to remove him or her from office. That charge is schism.”
A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia
Interested and qualified members of the reading public are invited to participate
The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University is pleased to announce that, in partnership with William Eerdmans Publishing Company, it will be producing A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia.
Five Compelling Religious Biographies
Including "The definitive biography of one of the nineteenth century’s great theologians"
But some popular writers simply become biography factories, churning out a new one on some well-known figure every year (or more), just in time for Christmas, often repackaging old myths and inaccuracies.
Striving After Godliness Should Not Be So Controversial
A Response to a Series of Book Reviews in Christianity Today
Are Jerry Bridges and J. I. Packer—two men who have written extensively about the pursuit of holiness—especially judgmental and arrogant? The men and women at my church who strive each day to wage war against the flesh and grow in grace do not fit Galli’s description. And the Puritans? Galli’s comment is either overstated or unfair
Understanding Your Ethical Conviction that Slavery is Wrong
"I believe that the hand of God was behind the abolition of slavery."
How often do unjust institutions get struck down, particularly if those institutions have existed for all of human history and could be found in every region of the world? I am a historian, so I will give you an authoritative answer: not often.
The Power of Deep Rest
There is a symbiotic relationship between work and rest
All of us are haunted by the work under the work—that need to prove and save ourselves, to gain a sense of worth and identity. But if we can experience gospel-rest in our hearts, if we can be free from the need to earn our salvation through our work, we will have a deep reservoir... Continue Reading
The Need for Creeds
It's more than merely helpful to set down the church's core convictions in words
Every Christian and every church already has a creed in the sense that they all “think the Bible means something and that its teaching can be summarized” in different words. “The only difference is whether one writes the confession down, so that others may scrutinize it and judge whether its teaching is consistent with Scripture,... Continue Reading
Of Cardboard Boxes and Moving Vans
A Review of Rebecca VanDoodewaard’s 'Uprooted''
VanDoodewaard’s tone is gracious, but she is not tentative in pointing out the sins that often accompany homesickness: grumbling, laziness, bitterness, discontent. And, in a refreshingly counter-cultural perspective, she admonishes readers to “exert yourself in controlling your emotions” (p. 45,) freely acknowledging that how we feel is our responsibility.
Should We Believe the Intellectuals? A Review of ‘The Anointed: Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age’
Should it be: “Secular intellectuals say it, I believe it, and that settles it.”
If Stephens and Giberson’s book is supposed to encourage us evangelicals to become more intellectual and engage the ideas of our secular culture, I suspect that in most cases it will backfire. For many evangelicals the book will serve as an object lesson in the dangers of compromising with “secular knowledge.” It might make them... Continue Reading
The Counterintuitive Calvin
The "Institutes" are, I think, the greatest, deepest, and most extensive treatment of the grace of God I have ever read
When Calvin comes to his well-known doctrine of predestination, it is important to see where he places it. He does not deal with the doctrine under Book 1 where he treats God, or even Book 2 where he addresses sin and Christ. He waits until Book 3, which is about "How We Receive the Grace of Christ" through the Holy Spirit. Calvin insists that the opposite of the doctrine of predestination is not the idea of free will but the teaching that we are saved by our good works.
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