Sunday’s Sermon
On Sunday I preached part 19 in our series through the Book of Acts. It is entitled "The Killing of the Righteous One" and is taken from Acts 7:44-53. You may listen to or download it HERE. Also, Covenant Presbyterian…
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Christless Christianity
“All the dogma and the death and resurrection of Jesus stuff was not the attraction.”– Bart Campolo And that's the problem. In an interview with Jonathan Merritt, Bart Campolo, son of Tony Campolo, explains his coming out as an atheist.…
“Theism raises the ceiling on our hopes for happiness”
Today Justin Taylor posted one of my favorite sections from C. S. Lewis’s sermon, “The Weight of Glory.” In that sermon, Lewis speaks eloquently about the “desire for our own far-off country”–the desire for heaven. I worry that much contemporary…
Just Add Water (Epilogue)
Now that we have spread out into part 5 of a 4-part series, there’s a question I did not answer last time because it was much more serious than the other questions which have been added to this discussion by…
Art for Pleasure’s Sake: Calvin on Gen. 4.21
It’s well known that Calvin frowned upon religious images in churches and the use of musical instruments to accompany singing in the corporate worship of God. Religious artwork in churches served, he believed, to distract worshipers from those “pictures” of…
Why I Pour (When Baptizing)
Here is the first of two posts: “Why I Pour” & “Why I Baptize Babies.” They are both roughly 900 words each. Should we only baptize by immersion, the full submersion of the body under water? Should we argue that…
Biblical and Systematic Theology: Speaking from Different Premises
The most obvious difference between Biblical Theology and Systematic Theology, as already noted, is that while the former adopts a chronological approach, tracing the history of revelation, Systematic Theology treats the Bible as a finished product in which God has…
Biblical and Systematic Theology: Speaking from Different Premises
The most obvious difference between Biblical Theology and Systematic Theology, as already noted, is that while the former adopts a chronological approach, tracing the history of revelation, Systematic Theology treats the Bible as a finished product in which God has…
Little One Lost: Living with Early Infant Loss
“Little One Lost” by Glenda Mathes (Reformed Fellowship, 2012) is greatly needed today precisely because there doesn’t seem to be a great need for it. I certainly wouldn’t have felt its importance if not for a personal trek through the…
Abraham Kuyper
Jan De Bruijn. Abraham Kuyper: a Pictorial Biography. Grand Rapids, MI/ Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans, 2014, x + 418pp, $40.00 From the cover of James Bratt’s recent and fine biography, Abraham Kuyper’s eyes look out at you and ask the question:…