The SJC committee also addressed my views on baptism, but again does not quote from my response to Presbytery. To clarify my views, and again to clarify what the Pacific NW Presbytery had in front of it when they considered my views, I post my response to the criticisms of the Majority . . . . Continue Reading »
1 Corinthians 10:16-17: Is not this cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Many Christians over the centuries have thought of the Lord’s Supper as a kind of continuing or second incarnation. . . . . Continue Reading »
Luke 3:3: And John came into all the district around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. Israel was baptized twice. All those who came out of Egypt were baptized into Moses in the Red Sea and in the cloud. They ate spiritual food and drank . . . . Continue Reading »
When I pick up a book on the OT and worship, I always look for Jeff Meyers’ The Lord’s Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship in the bibliography. Sadly, I’m usually disappointed. I was disappointed by Thomas Pierce’s recent Enthroned on Our Praise: An Old . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew 26:36: Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane. The word “Gethsemane” means “wine-press of oil.” It’s built from the same Hebrew root as Gath-Hepher, “the wine-press of the well,” a city in the tribal area of Zebulun, the birthplace of . . . . Continue Reading »
David Cunningham writes, “What was one a ‘kiss of peace,’ uniting bodies in an almost frighteningly intimate way, now often consists only of a tentative handshake and a mumbled greeting. Of course, this does still provide an opportunity to meet the other face to face, body . . . . Continue Reading »
Responding to Sinclair Ferguson’s defense of infant baptism in Baptism: Three Views , Anthony Lane attacks the use of “sign and seal” as the “controlling framework” for one’s theology of baptism. He points out that for Ferguson the “proper” . . . . Continue Reading »
Athanasius argues that “Father” is preferable to the Arian “Unoriginate” as a name for the First Person. It is more Scriptural, and it also names the First Person by reference to God the Son rather than by reference to the creation. Plus, “Father” is the . . . . Continue Reading »
“Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.” For nearly two millennia, Christians have been singing that every week, often without a second thought about the radical claims embedded in the hymn. In Isaiah 6, the song shakes the temple, but Christians . . . . Continue Reading »
Jamie Smith’s latest book ( Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Cultural Liturgies) ) is excellent. He rightly challenges the tendency for “worldview-talk” to take a rationalist bent, and in place of the assumption that “man is a thinking . . . . Continue Reading »
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