Blog 48: 2.3.1 – 2.3.5
One key Reformation teaching which both Lutherans and Reformed held in common was the pervasive and inherited corruption of human corruption. In this, Calvin was no different. He notes that…
Sean Lucas
Blog 47: 2.2.22 – 2.2.27
Humans want to carve out some place for their own natural abilities when it comes to doings works that conform to God’s law. Ethicists will sometimes talk about “natural law,”…
Coming Evangelical Collapse
This was a fasincating opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor (I was referred to it from my facebook homepage; how do you like that, Carl?). The writer essentially argues…
Blog 46: 2.2.18 – 2.2.21
Having talked about the knowledge of “earthly matters” which reason can attain by God’s common grace (2.2.13-16), Calvin argues that spiritual insight–knowledge about “heavenly matters”–consists in three things: knowing God;…
Classical Music
Last week, after ten or so years of wanting one, I finally bought a Bose Wave Music System. When I got it out of the box and tested it with…
Bear Market
I’d be lying if I said that I was unconcerned by the eight days (counting today) of major losses that the NYSE has absorbed. Each day, I get to work…
The Green Bible
I’m not sure we need this. The official website is here. The features: “Green-Letter Edition: verses and passages that speak to God’s care for creation highlighted in green” and “A personal green…
Culture Making
A couple of days ago, I had some time to read on a flight to Philadelphia, and so was able finally to finish Andy Crouch’s new book, Culture Making: Recovering…
The Surprising Work of God
Over vacation, one of the books I finished was Garth Rosell’s new book, The Surprising Work of God. Rosell, former director of the Ockenga Institute at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, uses…
Watching Joel Osteen
Last night as I was flipping the channels during a second straight depressing late-inning loss by my Cardinals, I happened onto Joel Osteen’s program. As someone professionally-trained as an American…