Hatred for History
For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear, some new thing (Acts 17:21) . . .…
Month: March 2012
After God’s Silence — What?
by Oswald Chambers “Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. When He had heard therefore that he was sick, He abode two days still in the same…
Two Gospel Heresies
Salvation by works is heresy. Salvation without works is heresy. Both are damnable. In the history of the Church the battle for the gospel has often centered on two extremes…
Theologies to be Skeptical About
Christian systematic theologies abound today, and the themes around which one may orient any theology are legion: Protestant, Roman Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, feminist, dispensationalist, Afro-American, liberation, liturgical, evangelical, Marxist, Asian,…
Prophetic Preaching or Expository Preaching?
Over the past thirty years or so, there has been a big emphasis on “expository” or “expositional” preaching. This is the practice of preaching straight through the Bible (or a…
Toward a Catholic Calvinism
I put myself on guard whenever I observe speakers and writers neatly classifying individuals into distinct, mutually exclusive, and seemingly airtight categories. One factor that makes individuals what they are…
Christianity as Empire
And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other…
Man Without a Movement
Dedicated to John M. Frame, who for four decades has successfully resisted the lure of movements What is a movement? As I am defining it here, a movement is an…
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