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…
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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:…
Church Planting Burdens: A Desire to Succeed
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…
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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…
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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…
Little Theologians in Worship
In titling both my blog and my first book Housewife Theologian, I am constantly trying to get the message out that everyone is a theologian. That is, we all have a knowledge of God, even the layperson. Atheists also have…
Just Add Water (4 of 4)
Closing Thoughts/Parting Shots/One Liners Well, they tell me it’s been an exciting week here at Ref21 (that’s what they tell me – we should try calling out antinomianism in divorced Christian music artists if we really want to light up…