As a follow-up to my Un-Naked God post, friend and former student Josh Stevenson offers this summary of creation’s progression from glory to glory: God alone >> Created earth as glory of God Man (alone) as glory of earth >> Woman as glory of Man Christ as glory of Woman >> . . . . Continue Reading »
John MacArthur’s latest, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ , is an intriguing, historically informed meditation on a central biblical concept that has been obscured by translators who soften up the image by translation ebed and doulos as “servant” rather than . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian women don’t need any new sources for inspiration or therapy, and while the gender discussions are important to have, there’s a lot more to discuss—a lot more Bible, a lot more theology, and what seems to be a never-ending need to make disciples. Since that day at TEDS . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of days ago I did a post called “Why Love the Church” wherein I analogized from some words of G. K. Chesterton to the effect that we ought to love the church simply because she is the church, the bride of Christ and mother of the faithful. In that quote Chesterton . . . . Continue Reading »
Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, & Meaning, by Nancy Pearcy (2010)Broadman & Holman Publishers: Nashville, TN“Today’s global secular culture has erected a maze of mental barriers against even considering the biblical message.” (15) . . . . Continue Reading »
Starting something new is hard, but it is especially hard if what you are doing is unprecedented.A business proves this truth.Founding Federal Express before anyone could imagine overnight deliver had all the problems of any new business with the justifiable skepticism of experts who could not . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things has a Reformation-Day article of mine up on their web site this weekend. Take a look: http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2010/10/priesthood-of-believers . . . . Continue Reading »
American culture seems to be most interested in who God isn’t. Many hold that claims made about God put him in a box and because we really can’t know anything about him (so they say) we should avoid claiming any knowledge of or about him. Of course, that argument works for less than 10 . . . . Continue Reading »
A brick may be used in a pagan temple, but then reverently placed in a Christian church. A cave may be used as a stable, but then turned into the birthplace of God. No metaphysical system is safe from plundering by Christianity, because Christianity is afraid of no good idea, object, or word. Continue Reading »
In response to my post a few days ago on the “Federal Vision,” my colleague Jonathan McIntosh wonders whether the problem with traditional federal theology (more accurately, some federal theology) isn’t worse than Torrance suggests. If Owen is right that there is no natural . . . . Continue Reading »
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