Theology
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The Political Pietism of John Piper
Likely no prominent evangelical exemplifies both the assets and liabilities of contemporary pietism more than Piper…. Read the entire post here. Continue reading
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CCL November 7 Symposium
2020 Vision for a Blurry Year Topics: The upsides of a downside year Presidential election as chaos The political ideology of the COVID-19 drama Cultural Marxists in the streets The Supreme Court battle and the assault on Amy Coney Barrett Social justice goes to church — unmasked The wokeness of sports No screaming insults, no Continue reading
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Our Promissory God
Several decades ago a Canadian schoolteacher Everett Storms read the Bible through 27 times specifically counting God’s promises. The number he came up with is 7,487. We might dis‐ pute that number, but of this there must be no doubt: you can find thousands of God’s promises in the Bible. If you read nothing but Continue reading
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What Whites Owe Blacks
Fledgling editor Timothy Dalrymple of Christianity Today (Astray?) has called for the evangelical church to pay blacks reparations for the Unites States’ history of slavery and 19th century ministers’ defense of it. Dalrymple invoked the biblical account of Zacchaeus to buttress his proposal …. Read the rest here. Continue reading
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Pessimism Is Not a Strategy
“Hope is not a strategy” — this is an increasingly popular adage. It means that we can be hopeful all we want, but unless we have a plan and strategy in place to accomplish what we’re hoping for, that hope will likely be dashed. This adage is a gleaming example of commonsensical, contra-biblical, worldly wisdom. Continue reading
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COVID-19 and Theology: An Interview with Brian G. Mattson
Christians … are equipped to understand that God has purposes; that he is not a cold, distant, silent, and mute machine dispensing what we’ve got coming, but a merciful Father who calls us to cry out to him in our need; and that in Christ Jesus we have no ultimate existential fear of death. I… Continue reading
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J. I. Packer on De-Mystifying God
By “mystification” I mean the idea [often held in traditional views of God] that some biblical statements about God mislead as they stand, and ought to be explained away…. [S]ometimes [in the Bible] God is said to change his mind and to make new decisions as he reacts to human beings. Orthodox theists have insisted Continue reading
P. Andrew Sandlin 