The church possesses two books to aid in worship: the Word of God and the hymnal. The Scriptures stand as the perfect and unwavering revelation of God throughout the ages. It is our rule, and the only infallible word on all matters of our faith and practice. The hymnal exists in submission to the authority... Continue Reading

Enns’ absolute confidence that no rock actually moved throughout the wilderness strikes me as rather strange (and ultimately, dare I say, Bultmannian). My guess is that his confidence on this point stems from the rather mundane observation that rocks don’t stretch their legs all that often. Fair enough. But seas aren’t generally in the habit... Continue Reading

Meekness is a combination of patience, gentleness, and a complete submission to the will of God. Meekness is learning to be self-controlled instead of needing to be in control. Meekness is opening your heart instead of clenching your fist. Meekness is the firm resolve that it is always better to suffer than to sin.  ... Continue Reading

So there is a little bit of truth in what Mrs. Osteen says. Be obedient to God, worship God, do what God wants, in part because it is in your own best interest to do so and will bring to you the kind of true happiness that lasts. But Mrs. Osteen’s message is so badly... Continue Reading

The war, like it or not a real war, is being waged by Islam. But the real enemy, admit it or not, is our own culture’s loss of faith. We cannot pretend that — for the first time in history — this condition is not fatal to a culture. We cannot wish this away. We... Continue Reading

What the Lynn School Committee has done, as has the Mayor of Salem, is to discriminate against the students of Gordon College based on their religion. Sadly, they are even doing so at the peril of their own students, who received no-cost, valuable service from capable, compassionate student-teachers. This decision does not serve the students... Continue Reading

“Paul was not trying to retell the story of Jesus in narrative form. He was writing personal letters to communities of people he could assume already knew those stories through the oral traditions that later became the gospel. Further, Paul DOES mention several of the events in the life of Jesus, most importantly, the very... Continue Reading

Christians live in a twofold regime. They support the visible church with tithes and offerings and they respect God’s servant Caesar (Rom 13) by paying taxes but in a Republic Christians have a right and even a duty to organize in private societies and to seek to influence civil polity and policy for the common good.... Continue Reading

One of the more famous and most discussed differences on chronology in the gospels deals with the timing of the Last Supper and the Crucifixion.[1] Here is a difference often trumpeted forth as a clear error between the Synoptics and John.  This is the very issue raised by Daniel Kirk in his contribution to Pete... Continue Reading

Retaining temporal promises in Canaan based on imperfect, meritorious obedience is not republication. The conditions and promises are fundamentally different. What Kline does is something altogether different than what even John Owen and others did. Readers should note that Klinean covenant theology is not really classical Reformed “republicationism.” Talk of historical precedent is not all... Continue Reading