Baptists love the Bible. This is not to diminish the love other orthodox traditions have for the sacred Scriptures, but it is only to highlight that present-day particular Baptists come … More
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“What is Reformed theology?” This is the question I get asked all the time. Especially since I teach at a school called Reformed Theological Seminary!
While there are many ways to answer that question, I have found that the 5 Solas of the R…
Last week our friends over at CrossPolitic (CP) posted a couple of podcast episodes that understandably offended large numbers of Christians who take God’s Word seriously. They did it in … More
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One of the highlights for me of attending Together for the Gospel (T4G) in April (11-13, 2016), was hearing this man, Phillip Jensen here. Mark Dever interviews Phillip Jensen, the author of the gospel tract, “Two Ways to Live” and also one of the … Continue reading
In December 2001, our son was over three months old and our country was still feeling the affects of the terror attacks that happened on 9/11. My wife and I moved from East Texas to Bowie, Tx where I took a full-time position as Youth Pastor at a South…
Romans 1:16 is central to the Book of Romans, central to the teaching of the New Testament, and central to the entirety of the Bible. Here we find the theme … More
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“One of these things is not like the others.” That was a classic segment on Sesame Street, as well as the title of a popular children’s book. It proves again that everything you need to know in life you probably learned in Kindergart…
The Twilight series was an interesting take on the vampire genre. Yes, the books are for the heartless romantic that produced five movies which were hits at the box office even though they also received a few Razzies, which are the Oscars for bad movie…
It is actually the text of the book of Galatians that pounds Roman Catholicism! (by application, Eastern Orthodoxy and other ritualistic and external-oriented churches also.) Anthony Rogers continues in his series on Galatians and the last 5 have been especially … Continue reading
The issue of worship is one that is still a hot topic. How is worship suppose to be conducted and what kind of music is to be used. There have been discussions regarding what is allowed in our worship services. Some Christians do not even know wha…
Now that it’s officially August, the “back to school” conversations have begun. For many parents, however, it is not back to school for their kids, but “away” to school. Some parents are sending kids to college—perhaps for…
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, and Part 4 here. If there ever was a time in human history to believe in the existence of an unchanging and absolute standard of human morality (“moral absolutes”), the twenty first century is […]
This article originally appeared at Standing For Freedom. Ferguson marked a turning point in the evangelical world on discussions about race and the Church — and not in a good … More
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It’s that time of year again.
On Monday, a wonderful new crop of seminary students here at RTS-Charlotte will begin the grueling month-long experience of Summer Greek. And, like all seminary students before them, they will begin to ask the question of …
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It!Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. There may not be a presupposition more fundamental to human existence than the basic reliability of sense perception. Although inherently phenomenological in nature, sense perception is one of the primary mediums through […]
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Part 1 can be found here and Part 2 here. What is the most compelling evidence that could be presented for validating the Christian worldview? Throughout church history, apologists have done their best to earnestly and persuasively contend for the faith which was once […]
https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2015/03/whats-wrong-with-romes-christ-church.html John Bugay at Triablogue, back in 2015 did a series of excellent articles on Gregg Allison’s book, “Roman Catholic Theology and Practice” I remember seeing them at the time and reading some of them, but I must have forgotten. … Continue reading
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Part 1 can be found here. Intelligible experience in reality presupposes, and is contingent upon, the existence of laws of logic. While it is likely that the overwhelming majority of people have spent little to no time studying the intricacies of the laws […]
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular books in the Christian church. Some pastors and theologians has stated this is the best book to read outside the Bible. The book has been republished more than a lot of fictional book…
As I have written elsewhere, we are living through a famine of sound moral reasoning in the evangelical world today. The multiple failures at this point reveal an unbiblical separation … More
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Just a friendly push back on a common meme from Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox folks: They say since the early church did not have all the NT books in one place or list, until either Origen’s list (around 250 … Continue reading
One of great failures of modern evangelical Christians that has been undeniably made manifest over the last few years is the lack of moral reasoning that plagues so many of … More
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While going over Calvin’s rebuttal of Sadoleto’s letter from 1539, I read a paragraph where Calvin held Sadoleto’s argument to a biblical standard. Calvin was a scholar of the early church. He cites from patristic sources regularly. He read widely in what was available to him in his day. And yet he gave us an example of what it means […]
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We are officially halfway through 2022. There has been a lot that happened this year including to month of June. I know one of the big major events was the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe V Wade. I could write what has already been written, but I si…
This series is titled: Praise God for Christianity: No Intellectual Progress Without It! Did Christianity slow Western intellectual progress by replacing rational thought with mystery and authority? In post-Enlightenment generations, this question has received ample attention in academic and popular level contexts. As encapsulated in his seminal work, The Closing of the Western Mind: The […]
In the providence of God, the Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was handed down five days after I began an exposition of Romans 13:1-7. My … More
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For those reading this blog, I trust you’ve benefited from the variety of posts that deal with issues related to the origins of the NT canon (or text). I have written those posts with a wide audience in mind, hoping they are helpful for just about anyb…
More than a decade ago I stood in a square in old Boston listening to a very passionate guide talk about July 18, 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was … More
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More than a decade ago I stood in a square in old Boston listening to a very passionate guide talk about July 18, 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was … More
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