David and Goliath. Field of Dreams. Star Wars. Rocky. The Sandlot. The Hunger Games. Underdog stories never get old. We can’t help loving them. They also contain a distinctively American flavor, probably because this country only exists because the underdog…
In Part Two of this four part series, I offered some thoughts on the nature of doctrinal development. Now I want to turn to the discipline of Biblical Theology. Biblical Theology as a discipline emerges formally with the work…
Recently, my pastor has started a Men’s Bible Study series on discipleship by examining a classic passage for discipleship: In Luke 9:22-24, Jesus said, “The Son of Man must suffer many things; He must be rejected by the elders, chief…
6 years ago this week, John Piper posted, “We Know They are Killing Children–All of Us Know.” 6 years later, New York has passed and celebrated a bill that would allow a mother to abort her baby up until the…
By now, most Christians in America have seen the images: thunderous applause at the New York State Assembly and a festively decorated World Trade Center spire. And what is the great deliverance celebrated by this applause? The legal freedom to terminate…
I was gutted this week when I heard that the New York State Senate passed the Reproductive Health Act, giving women the right to abortion up to the point of birth. I welled up with grief imagining the thousands of…
Fake news. Social media outrage. Political polarization. Ideological bullying. These are just a few of the centralizing characteristics of our current social climate in the US. It should not surprise us, then, that our collective cultural head is spinning as…
Last week, I offered some preliminary thoughts on the relationship between Biblical and Systematic Theology. This week, I want to consider why it is that theology demands more than just harvesting the immediate results of the exegesis of biblical texts. …
Recently it was announced that Karen Pence – a private citizen who is not even occupying an elected office in the United States of America – is going to resume her teaching career at a Christian school. Part of this…
As everyone in the Reformed world surely knows by now, 2019 marks 400 years since the Synod of Dort wrapped up proceedings and bequeathed to the Protestant Reformed family of churches that glorious statement of Reformed doctrine known as the…
