Nine Marks has been running some helpful articles on the Prosperity Gospel. Many of the practitioners of this false teaching are easy to recognize: Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer, T.D. Jakes, etc. But prosperity teaching also comes in subtler…
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Frances Young, God’s Presence: A contemporary recapitulation of early Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, xiv + 474 pp., pb $29.99 In 2011 Frances Young delivered a series of eight Bampton Lectures in the University of Oxford which, by all…
Months ago when my wife was helping one of her patients (let’s call her Sarah), Sarah said, “Those are my peoples.” My lovely wife, in somewhat of a frantic response said, “What?” Sarah said, “You know, my family.” Somewhat down…
Recently I posted at Ref21 my thoughts on Sara Young’s Jesus Calling. Two thoughts have followed:1. I want to thank my Covenant Presbyterian Church family for their response. It has been so refreshing to be treated with respect in light of my concerns…
On Sunday I preached the first of three sermons on the church. It is entitled “What The Church Is For” and is taken from Ephesians 3:20-21. You can listen to it HERE.
Tim Wengert, my opposite number at the Lutheran Seminary in Germantown, has just published a thought-provoking book on Luther and the Bible, Reading the Bible with Martin Luther. In applying Luther’s canonicity criterion of ‘What pushes Christ’ to the Left…
Tim Wengert, my opposite number at the Lutheran Seminary in Germantown, has just published a thought-provoking book on Luther and the Bible, Reading the Bible with Martin Luther. In applying Luther’s canonicity criterion of ‘What pushes Christ’ to the Left…
Meredith Kline, one of the great Old Testament scholars of the 20th century, wrote a fascinating study examining Exodus 21:22-25: “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm,…
As a new year begins, I thought it might be helpful, to some at least, to put some flesh on the bones of “The Ten Tenets” of a Reformed apologetic, as those tenets are delineated and discussed in Covenantal Apologetics.…
