Month September 2009

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Blog 190: 4.8.13-4.9.3

Calvin now deals with what his opponents’ objections and defenses of their additions to God’s Word.  Won’t the Spirit guide us into truth (John 16:13)? Yes, but only through the Word, not in place of the Word. Didn’t Jesus say that…

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What Wondrous Love?

I was recently visiting the website of All Souls Church in New York. All Souls is a well known and historic Unitarian Universalist church. One of the many things that saddened me as I perused their webpage was the bulletin…

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Rob Bell Finds Himself in the Weeds Again

This time Rob Bell is redefining “evangelical.” And why not? He has already redefined “Gospel” to suit his preferences. Once you tinker around with the Gospel is anything sacred? Bell was interviewed by Michael Paulson of the Boston Globe’s online…

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Good Book on Inerrancy

I have been looking forward to the re-release of John Wenham’s Christ and the Bible. Now it is finally available HERE. This is what Mark Dever says about it in his annotated bibliography on inerrancy: I’ve saved the best for…

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Trinity and Salvation

In my sermon on John 14:16-17 last week, I introduced the important topic of the Holy Spirit as the “other Paraklete”.  I talked at some length about how the Spirit carries forward Christ’s work as the Spirit Anointed Messiah in…

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Blog 189: 4.8.8-12

Servants of God can have full confidence to declare God’s word, a sure message from the Creator to his world. Our powerful weapons of warfare are not the inventions of our minds but rather the decrees of God. With the…