Vacation Reading…
Here are the books I’m taking with me on Christmas break: Presuppositional Apologetics by Greg Bahnsen For the Thrill of It by Simon Baatz Flannery by Brad Gooch The Trellis and the Vine by Payne & Marshall
Month December 2009
Far as the curse is found – The Promise Fulfilled
3. The Promise FulfilledNotice three ways that God’s Word reveals Jesus to us as the fulfillment of His promise. God in the fleshTo fulfill His promise God would not raise up a more moral man. It would not be enough…
Take and Read
Justin Taylor comments on a book that is on my must read list for 2010: “Just noticed that for a limited time Amazon has Jay Richard’s hardcover book, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the…
Theology: Systematic / Biblical Balancing Act
Okay, if you’re a theology nerd like me then you will want to read the debate between two of my favorite writers – Carl Trueman and Graeme Goldsworthy.Now, I tease a bit about being a theology nerd. But don’t misunderstand.…
Oral Roberts, Prosperity and the Perversion of Scripture
Oral Roberts died this week. He was 91 years old. Roberts was a bit of a denominational mish-mash. He was a Pentecostal faith healer, a United Methodist, a university president, and a proponent of the prosperity “gospel.” I know it…
Far as the curse is found – The Promise
God, in his amazing grace does not end His story with the fall. He continues the story with…2. The PromiseBefore God tells Adam and Eve of the consequences of their sin he first announces judgement upon Satan. “I will put…
Christmas is not a pagan holiday
Biblical Archaeology Review has an interesting article on why Christmas is celebrated on December 25. The article also dispells the widely held urban myth that Christmas was a pagan holiday. The most loudly touted theory about the origins of the…
Blog 244: 4.20.27 – 4.20.32
Calvin’s sensitivity to the different circumstances in which people live lead him to flip-flop, or at least to be somewhat ambivalent in his attitude to the magistrate. Citing the case of Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. 27), Scripture requires obedience to bad kings, and…
Blog 243: 4.20.10 – 4.20.26
No doubt having the Anabaptists in mind, and having already defended the right to litigate, Calvin proceeds to defend the entire judicial process. He discourages using the law for the taking of revenge, but upholds the use of due process,…
Blog 242: 4.20.12 – 4.20.18
Calvin borrows the idea of a just war from Augustine. Everything is to be tried in order to preserve the peace before war is declared, though waging war obviously means that reparations must be made, if necessary. A consideration of…