Scot McKnight, Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2014. x + 289pp. $21.99 The Kingdom of God has captured the attention and imagination of many recent evangelical writers. Even so, nothing resembling…
Gary Demar delves into the angry mind of Frank Schaeffer. It is a dark place. Recently the pathologically angry Schaeffer fired off a screed directed at a Christian publishing house and the president of its parent company. Scaeffer's complaint? The…
Evangelicals, always a couple decades behind the latest mainline bandwagon, have in recent years become very fired up about ecumenism. And yet, we rarely seem at all sure what it’s supposed to mean. Does it mean that we’re all just…
Ah, yes – the answer! Who said this? 1. All the blessings which God hath bestowed upon man are of his mere grace, bounty, or favour; his free, undeserved favour; favour altogether undeserved; man having no claim to the least…
With respect to my colleague, Mr Walker and his recent provocative post… Preparing to lecture recently, I came across these stirring words in some surprising places: 1. Christ is present in his word, since it is he himself who speaks when…
The MoS gang is once again gathering together in my hometown today to do a batch of recordings. Aside from hearing Carl repeatedly pronounce Maryland wrong, I am looking forward to what we have lined up for the day. One…
Since we completed our discussion of the “Ten Tenets” last month, I thought it might be useful to comment on some of the common objections to a Covenantal approach to apologetics. One of the most common objections against a “Covenantal”…
Since we completed our discussion of the “Ten Tenets” last month, I thought it might be useful to comment on some of the common objections to a Covenantal approach to apologetics. One of the most common objections against a “Covenantal”…
The sixteenth-century papacy never succeeded in setting fire to Martin Luther, much to its chagrin. Support from a string of Saxon princes and political events in the Holy Roman Empire combined to keep Luther from Rome’s grasp until he succumbed,…
It’s a common observation, beloved by Reformed folk, that Deuteronomy reflects ancient near eastern suzerainty treaties–international covenants enacted between a superior suzerain power and inferior vassal state. Such treaties follow what we now think of as standard covenant formulary: a…
