Infant Baptism and the Future of the Church
When we bring a child for baptism, we are watching, claiming, believing into the faith of Abraham and Jeremiah.
I believe that, unless Jesus comes back first (Lord, come quickly!), the next generation will be full of glorious stories of redemption. It will be full of stories of those united to Jesus Christ and washed in His blood. I believe that the church will suffer in ways that echo the longings of Abraham and... Continue Reading
A Trustworthy Statement
We all struggle here at some point in our walk, but there are a great number of professing Christians who are not genuine.
What does it mean that even though many professing Christians are actually faithless, but Christ is faithful? He is faithful to save all those who truly believe (John 3:16), He is equally faithful to judge all who do not (John 3:18). This is Christ’s faithfulness to Himself. He is Holy and immutable and will be... Continue Reading
Fighting Atrophy
Necessarily the pandemic and the various restriction we have been living under mean that many areas of service have been restricted.
Some of us we haven’t felt comfortable serving, and if we’re honest we’ve secretly enjoyed the rest. I wonder if that’s telling us something to us about overwork and managing workloads for those who serve going forward as a church, but that’s another post for another time. For now we need to recognise that many... Continue Reading
The World’s Most Amazing Camera: Part 6 – Variations on a Theme
Each solution is well-designed, and we do not find any “in-between,” partially functioning eyes as if they were evolving.
Sighted organisms employ a wide variety of different designs for their visual system. But each system functions only if all its essential components are intact, without a trace of evolution. There is also evidence of the fall of man. Though neo-Darwinian evolution is not seen, evidence of “devolution” and degradation is abundant. Some animals have... Continue Reading
The Romans Road to Salvation
The word “gospel” literally means good news! The reason it’s good news is that there is bad news.
The question is often asked, how do I know if I’m saved? The simple answer is that if you have truly believed in Jesus Christ and put your faith in Him, God will transform you. The old ways of sin that you used to relish are going to fade, and the new life you live in... Continue Reading
Russell Moore and the Canaanization of the SBC
Moore was writing a Parthian shot public statement that there is a significant cancer of wickedness, racism, and abuse within the ranks of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Russell Moore’s recent actions highlight a major problem within the SBC, we have been Canaanized. As Israel during the time of the judges, many want to do what is right in their own eyes. This Canaanization runs deeper than we think. Remember, Moore was the head of the ERLC. In the SBC system, the church messengers ultimately appoint... Continue Reading
The Methods vs. The Message
Ultimately, evangelism is less about the method one uses and more about the message one proclaims.
Evangelism, remember, is the proclamation of the gospel—telling the story, announcing the news. Some fear that they don’t know enough to evangelize. I say, “Tell them what you do know.” Leave the defense of the truth claims to the apologist and hold forth the simple message of the gospel. Anyone who has the ability to... Continue Reading
Is the Old Testament Unintelligible without the New? Important Considerations on the Relationship between the Testaments
Treating the Old Testament as a riddle and the New Testament as its decoding key may be intriguing, but it posits many significant challenges for a high view of Scripture that is consistent.
That the Old Testament could not be understood without the New is not even consistently held by proponents of this refrain. In all fairness, many who repeat this saying actually produce quality exegesis in Old Testament texts without ever reading the New Testament back into their texts. So why then the assertion? It is not... Continue Reading
What Does the Death of Cultural Christianity Cost?
To lament the decline of cultural Christianity is to lament not simply the loss of a Christian consensus, but the loss of the social capital born of common grace that secular society was borrowing from.
Some of the critiques against “cultural Christianity,” or those who depict all cultural manifestations of Christianity as motivated by power, leave me thinking in response: Would we rather the church be permanently relegated to the margins? There is no intrinsic benefit to existing on the margins. Should we not pray for the gospel’s advance in... Continue Reading
The Logic of Westminster’s Confession
He supposes that the Westminster theologians wanted to first consider God’s acts followed by man’s response. He was on the right track.
To lose this basic context and methodology is to lose something of the richness of the theology itself. Today we are indebted to those who are calling us back to the roots of our Confession of Faith, which Warfield so aptly described as the “ablest and ripest product of that Great Reformation, which was so... Continue Reading
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