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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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” 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…
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:…
As I was leaving Wal-mart earlier today, I noticed a woman, in a red and white checkered dress, holding a sign that said, “Success is only mentioned in the KJV once. Check Joshua 1:8.” Is that the only time the…
Pascal put it best when he developed the notions of distraction and diversion: the things, the activities and preferences, which human beings develop to draw them away from thinking about reality, especially death. A good example is provided by the…
