The Last Word: Beyond the Bible Wars to a New Understanding of the Authority of Scripture N. T. Wright New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005 146 pages, cloth, $19.95 US N. T. Wright is arguably the most popular New Testament scholar in the English-speaking world today. His manner is winsome, his writing is incisive, his speech [...]
Month: April 2012
Good Friday as Celebration of Conquest
Message Delivered at San Lorenzo Valley Good Friday Service First Baptist Church, San Lorenzo ValleyApril 10, 2009 There are numerous and momentous implications of our Lord’s death that we celebrate today. I draw attention this afternoon to just one of them: Christus Victor. This view emerged very early in the church, and with good reason — the Bible [...]
The False Teaching of “Transitioning” into Discipleship
The fundamental premise of our [C]hristian faith is the lordship of Jesus Christ. It stands at the heart and core of Christianity. Everything in the Christian faith — becoming a Christian, living the Christian life, and the ultimate outcome of being a Christian — stands or falls on the lordship of Jesus Christ. Charles T. [...]
Boys, This Ain’t Scholarship
I’m not going to interact with the substance of Robert Godfrey’s and Mike Horton’s breezy responses to John Frame’s The Escondido Theology (just as they didn’t interact with the substance of Frame’s book), but I can’t pass up a “teaching moment” (as we say these days) to those onlookers who might want to learn a [...]
The “Patriarchy” Problem
“Patriarchy” means, “father rule.” The concept of father necessitates a child or children (“father” is not equivalent to “husband”), so the word patriarchy might be thought to imply that the father as father bears unique and final human authority in the family. If so, this assumption is false. From the Biblical teaching that the faithful [...]
Crusading Christianity
Passion for Catholicity In recent years I've tried to make a chief feature of my ministry catholicity, specifically, orthodox Christians working together for wholesale reformation. Culture-reclaiming Christians committed to Biblical authority, the apostolic Gospel, and historic orthodoxy should not allow their secondary differences to divide them. The stakes are too high; our culture is too [...]
The Empirical Heretics
G. C. Berkouwer has riveted attention on the dangers of the empirical heretic, by which he denotes that false teacher who, while in conformity to the creeds of the church, propagates doctrine (or advocates actions) that diminish the proclamation of the Gospel (The Church, in Studies in Dogmatics [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976], 381). Operating safely [...]
