Boil the Frog Slowly
Most of us have heard the morality tale of the frog that leapt from the boiling pot when tossed in but allowed himself to be placed in a pot of…
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Liberals Are Smarter Than Conservatives
It’s remarkable that conservatives don’t understand how Genesis (creation) and John 3:16 (redemption) hang and fall together, because liberals understand it all too well. In one of the most quoted…
The Gauntlet Tossed to “The Grace Movement”
It is perhaps surprising that an essay published by group with such a fully deserved reputation for vilifying other Christians as the Trinity Foundation should be so theologically on target,…
Are We Really Bible-Believers? Synchronic versus Diachronic Theology
In contemplating Christian theology, it’s vital to distinguish synchronic from diachronic theology. The Bible is not chiefly about theology (as in “systematic theology”), but about God’s revelation in history, centered…
John R. W. Stott on Temperamental Versus Theological Conservatism
We are conservative evangelicals. But let us make sure our conservatism is a theological conservatism and not a temperamental one…. We are conserving, preserving the unique revelation of God in Christ and in Scripture. But let us be clear that we are not conservative temperamentally, or in our prejudices, or in our lifestyles, or in our resistance to change. If we must be conservative evangelicals, let us also be radical evangelicals at the same time. Now the radical is somebody who asks awkward and irreverent questions of the Establishment. The radical is somebody who scrutinises [sic] tradition and convention with a critical eye…. Nothing is sacrosanct to the radical conservative evangelical except Scripture itself, by which all our traditions and our conventions are going to be tested and tried
John R. W. Stott on Temperamental Versus Theological Conservatism
The False Teaching of “Transitioning” into Discipleship
Not all false teachings in the church are properly classed as theological heresies, such that they would violate a specific doctrinal statement or confession of faith. Some of the most…
Spontaneous Obedience
In his otherwise helpful essay defending the traditionally Reformed view of justification, Michael Horton writes, “The gospel of free justification gives rise to a spontaneous embrace of the very law…
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