Following Rob Bell: The Edges of Orthodoxy and the Center of the Zeitgeist This past Sunday, Kent Dobson, successor at Rob Bell’s famous Mars Hill Bible Church, stepped down as teaching pastor. He opened his announcement/sermon by reading the Scriptural…
Here is an exerpt from my article in the Ordained Servant's latest issue, the OPC Journal for church officers: The OPC values robust theological teaching. This is evident in the confession (Westminster) to which our denomination subscribes and the…
Paul Helm dropped me a note to comment that, although it is true that we live in a world which fears exclusion, there are still many socially acceptable voluntary organization which do exclude people: political parties, for example. This is…
Parts one, two, three and four of this series can be found here, here, here and here ~ Mark McDowell, the Editor I As he unfolds the ways in which the Spirit renews and animates our lives, the apostle has spoken of love of God and our…
Parts one, two, three and four of this series can be found here, here, here and here ~ Mark McDowell, the Editor I As he unfolds the ways in which the Spirit renews and animates our lives, the apostle has spoken of love of God and our…
Not long ago a well-known member of the “reformedish” world explained to me that his gifts were too significant to be squandered accepting invitations to speak at anything other than large churches and prominent conferences. My heart sank. This was…
What makes someone a heretic? This topic may be more important than we might think, especially in the world of online discourse. There is a distinction between willfully committing a soul-destroying heresy and committing a theological error. To call someone…
The third area where Machen anticipates the kind of dilemmas now faced by the contemporary church is in the matter of discipline. In a post-Freudian, post-Foucaultian world, the very notion of discipline sounds repressive and abusive, yet Machen clearly understood…
The present post is the third in a three part series addressing contemporary objections to the doctrine of the covenant of redemption (for parts one and two, see here and here). What follows is adapted from Michael Allen and Scott…
This is the time of year to express thanks, and it occurs to me that of the many things for which I am grateful to God, great Christian books are high among them. This fall marks the 25th anniversary of…
