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As some will no doubt be preaching on Christ’s death on Friday, there is one hugely important theological fact that must be kept uppermost in our minds as we consider his death on the cross.  If we do not understand…

“I come to the right of interpreting [the Bible], which they arrogate to themselves…. It is theirs, they say, to give the meaning of Scripture, and we must acquiesce.” Thus Calvin summarizes the fourth and final point of Trent’s teaching…

I am delighted to get my hands on the first volume of a projected ten-volume set, The Works of William Perkins. Perkins was one of those phenomenal proto-Puritans, in this instance a man often called “the father of Puritanism.” While…

Here is another question that did not get answered in the Grand Rapids PCRT:  “A recent conversation with a family member centered around whether we still need to have a civil license of marriage since the government of states are…

The final part of an interview with Sandy Finlayson, (part 1, part 2) on his two books ‘Unity and Diversity‘ and ‘Bitesize Biography – Thomas Chalmers‘   These men accomplished an enormous amount, as I read the book I was…

Last year I forgot it was Easters, likely due to the fact that I had just returned home from South Africa and was jet-lagged. I prepared my sermon on Genesis, and only realized when it was too late that it…

According to Carl Braaten, the gospel’s claim that God raised Jesus from the dead requires us to address two questions: the question of whether it happened and the question of what happened. The former question–what we might call, “the apologetic…

For Part 1 of the Interview with Sandy Finlayson see here You are not uncritical of the men in this ‘Unity and Diversity’, particularly ‘Rabbi Duncan’, I found your chapter on him the most incisive, why is his story so…

What commandments did Adam break in the Garden when he and his wife ate from the tree which God commanded them not to eat from (Gen. 2:16-17; 3:6)? I believe he broke all ten commandments, not just one or two…

Why did Luke end Acts in the way that he did? The closing verses of Acts 28 serve, in part, to demonstrate Luke’s point that the mission of the apostle Paul is a complete one. But in what sense is…