Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
One does not have to preach, teach, or even read the New Testament for long in order to discover how steeped its authors are in the Old Testament. The OT surfaces on virtually every page of the NT. It serves…
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Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
One does not have to preach, teach, or even read the New Testament for long in order to discover how steeped its authors are in the Old Testament. The OT surfaces on virtually every page of the NT. It serves…
Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
One does not have to preach, teach, or even read the New Testament for long in order to discover how steeped its authors are in the Old Testament. The OT surfaces on virtually every page of the NT. It serves…
Don’t Leave Those Kids Alone
Because of the obsession of what has been called “youth culture,” it has been said that 1 Timothy 4:12 (“Let no one despite you for your youth…”) may be the most incomprehensible passage in our modern American culture. A cursory…
A Year After Orlando
As is true of September 11, June 12 is a date in American history that elicits a miasma of emotions. Just one year ago today, one the most tragic mass shootings on American soil took place. The target was clear–the “LGBT” community. It garnered…
Self-Care or Sabbath?
A recent NPR article profiled what it called “the millennial obsession with self-care.”1 Apparently, the millennial generation is engaging in the practice of self-care with a surprising frequency and intensity that a multi-billion dollar industry has been built up around it. Yet…
Sexual Identity Conference
Our friends at Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, GA are hosting a conference with Rosaria Butterfield this Friday night. The theme of the conference is “Sexual Identity and Union with Christ.” There will be a Q&A time after her talk. …
Justifying a Non-Repeatable Justification
As there has been no small debate in recent decades over the doctrine of justification, I was delighted to come across a treatment of the once-for-all nature of justification in Geerhardus Vos’ Reformed Dogmatics. Having introduced the subject by explaining…
Cruciform Suffering
The fact that the incarnate Son of God “learned obedience” (Heb. 5:8) is an essential aspect of Jesus’ human nature and so is indispensable to sound Christology and soteriology. Apart from the cross itself, the clearest example we have of…
A Christian in the Secular Academy
When many individuals think of the life of a college professor, the general perception they have formed (fueled by articles such as this) is that we only work for a few days a week and have the entire summer “off.”…