How Can a God of Love Send Anyone to Hell?
Check out this excellent and important sermon from Al Mohler.
Month August 2009
“The Bible Among the Myths”
From Andreas Kostenberger: In a recent Zondervan publication, John Oswalt, long-time Old Testament scholar and author of the two-volume commentary on Isaiah in the NICOT series, discusses The Bible among the Myths. In light of recent controversial books by writers…
Will we be a culture of dignity or death?
Al Mohler raises some very important questions concerning the fate of fertilized human embryos: For most Americans, the moral status of the human embryo is a question that seems quite remote. Even as hundreds of thousands of “excess” human embryos…
Blog 169: 4.1.5 – 4.1.21
Calvin’s teaching has never been for shrinking violets, nor is John Calvin himself thought of as “soft.” He uses strong language about those who are enemies of the gospel (“pigs,” “dogs”). In discussing church discipline he notes the special responsibilities…
Thabiti Anyabwile on Christ the Center
Interesting interview here with Thabiti Anyabwile.
Hodge vs. Nevin on the Lord’s Supper
Keith Mathison of Ligonier has put together a blog post linking to the primary documents in the debate between Charles Hodge and John Williamson Nevin on the Lord’s Supper, resulting from Nevin’s 1846 book, The Mystical Presence.
Christian Improv
After three months on sabbatical, I am back to blogging again. I start with a quote from Time magazine’s Joel Stein, who made a guest appearance with the improv troupe at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. The group’s leader explained that…
What Baptists Can Learn From Calvin
Timothy George, writing at Christian History, writes: “2009 is a good time to look again at Calvin’s theology and its relationship to the Baptist movement. Here are five theological principles Baptists can learn from Calvin.” (No, paedobaptism isn’t one of…
Getting the Cross Right
Over at Church Matters Greg Gilbert has contributed some great posts dealing with the doctrine of the atonement. Among those posts Gilbert interacts with N.T. Wright who has become increasingly popular in evangelical circles. To be sure, Wright is an…
My Book Recommendations
You can check in on my growing number of book recommendations over at WTS Bookstore HERE. Scroll down to “non-denomiational” on the “choose denomination” filter. All but a few of the recommendations in that section are mine. You may also…