Month May 2009

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Blog 85: 2.16.7 – 2.16.11

In sections 8-12 Calvin seeks to explain a confusing part of the Apostle’s Creed: Christ’s descent into hell. Calvin wants us to understand and not despise this mysterious summary of our redemption. Dropping it from our creed means we lose…

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The Aberdeen Appeal

I too have joined the list of Carl Trueman’s colleagues who have signed the “Statement to Commissioners at the forthcoming General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.”  Further, I believe that Dr. Trueman’s response in “It must be spring. .…

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COS in Thailand

Currently Church of the Saviour has a team ministering in Thailand. They are there primarily to train Christian workers how to use a Bible story tapestry which illustrates the biblical story from creation to fall to redemption to new creation.…

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Where are the men?

Great post from Phil Johnson over at Pyromaniacs: One of the recurring figures of masculinity that John Eldredge keeps bringing up in Wild at Heart is Maximus from the movie Gladiator. A fantasy character! The subtitle of the book is…

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Greg Beale at WTS

Today I attended a lecture by Greg Beale at Westminster Seminary. His subject was the inerrancy of Scripture. Specifically Dr. Beale effectively demonstrated the Scripture’s self attestation to its inerrancy in John’s Apocalypse. Inerrancy has been a very hot topic…

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The Gospel and The Great Commission

“The gospel is the good news of all that God has done on behalf of sinners through the perfect life, atoning death, and victorious resurrection of Jesus. As individual Southern Baptists, we must be gospel-centered from first to last. Gospel-centered…