Category: theology
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TheologyMike Ditka and Abraham Lincoln’s temporary comfort
Pithy bits of folks wisdom are everywhere – kitchen counters, business meeting room walls, even email tag lines display sayings like “Everything in moderation, and…
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Theology“Whose am I?”
Are you your job? Does your gender define who you are? Your ethnicity? Your feelings? Or is your identify found in a truth far more substantial…
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TheologyCountering Tim Keller’s case for evolution
Examining Tim Keller’s white paper Creation, Evolution, and Christian Laypeople **** Tim Keller’s trusted place among Reformed and Presbyterian folk is well-earned, but not when…
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TheologyThe Bible doesn’t have a lot say about ___________
We often hear it said, “the Bible really doesn’t have a lot to say about ________” Into this blank liberals will insert terms such as “homosexuality” or “creation”…
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Church historyOriginal Sin: Luther’s other life-changing doctrine
Every Reformation Day we remember how God used Luther to teach the Church that we are justified by faith alone, not by what we do. But often…
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Recent ArticlesWhy should we study Scripture together?
It’s too easy to take for granted the blessings God has heaped on us, so let’s stop for a moment and think about several of…
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Theology#4: the forgotten commandment?
In Celebrating the Sabbath pastor Bruce Ray warns that there are two ways to fall off the horse when it comes to Sunday observance: legalism…
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Adult non-fictionOn the proper role of Government (and the footnoted Belgic Confession article 36)
A review of P.J. Hoedemaker’s Article 36 of the Belgic Confession Vindicated Against Dr. Abraham Kuyper ***** Anyone who has ever studied the Belgic Confession, even…
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Recent ArticlesGod gives rest: On the 4th Commandment
Years ago I blew my first shot at university. I goofed off, got lousy grades, and ending up with a one-year academic suspension. When I…
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TheologyAnger is not your friend
Anger: sometimes it just feels right. Anger is happy to assume its place as your advocate, your defense against unfair actions. And we are all too…
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People we should knowJonathan Edwards: The pastor who packed them in the pews while preaching the wrath of God
Much like today, during the early colonial years in America, preachers rarely spoke about the wrath of God – this did not seem the type…
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TheologyWhom Do You Serve? Sphere Sovereignty and the need for limits on power
Children are often told to obey many different folks. Listen to your mom and dad. Listen to the policeman. Listen to your teacher. Listen to…
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TheologyBAPTISM DEBATE: Credo vs. Paedo
On Sept. 27 two Reformed pastors debated “SHOULD WE BAPTIZE INFANTS AS WELL AS ADULTS?” The edited version of this video is now available to…
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TheologyChoosing Evolution: Bad reasons for a big departure
How I Changed My Mind About Evolution is a recent book featuring 25 evangelical theologians and scientists, each taking a chapter to explain why they have…
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TheologyThe limits of the “two-books” metaphor
There is a metaphor, common among Christians, about how God has revealed Himself to us via “two books”: Scripture and the book of Nature. The…
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Recent ArticlesPAUL vs. JAMES? Dealing with Bible difficulties
“For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.” – Paul, writing in Romans 3:28 “You see that a…
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TheologyForgiveness
What a wonderful word! Yet, what does it mean? How do you grant forgiveness; and, for what? As much as Christians talk about forgiveness, you’d…
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Adult non-fictionCalvinist vs. Arminian: a tale of two books
Why revisit the debate between Arminianism and Calvinism? Isn’t it a waste of precious time to discuss these differences even as the world is aflame…
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TheologyHow are we to understand the Bible?
3 approaches to consider: foundationalism, postmodernism, and something in between ***** Some years ago I attended a three-day conference on the topic how to read…
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Adult non-fictionHeaven: what can we know?
A summary review of Randy Alcorn’s Heaven **** Christians don’t seem to speak about Heaven as much as in the past. There is more interest…
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TheologyDid Abraham really exist?
Evangelicals are debating the historicity of Adam, but they are too timid. It is time to reject fundamentalist distortions of the Abrahamic narrative just as decisively as…
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Recent ArticlesDealing with the Bible’s troubling texts
Whether it’s passages about slavery, or gender roles, or the imprecatory Psalms, some sections of Scripture make Christians uncomfortable. God’s command to kill all the…
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Recent ArticlesThe best news ever!
“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:32-43) **** Three people were taken that day to a hill…
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TheologyAfter Evolution: 4 Reformed figures who accepted evolution and kept on moving
What follows are very brief bios of four prominent Reformed figures who have accepted evolution and gone on to accept increasingly unorthodox positions. Peter Enns…
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Culture ClashesDid Adam have a belly button?
Why we need to clarify Article 14 of the Belgic Confession In the fourth century a big battle was fought over a one-letter difference. The…
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Recent ArticlesHow are we to read the Bible?
From January 16 to 18, in 2014, the Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary hosted a conference on the topic of hermeneutics. It’s a big word, but they…