See It Publicly
When I made arrangements to start blogging here, I told the fellows in charge that it was unlikely that I would blog more than twice a month at Ref21, but I’m about to only have posted once in my premiere…
Category Reformation21
Wearing Christianity on Your Sleeve: What Helps Evangelism
In 2011, hip hop artist, Shai Linne, released his album, titled, “The Attributes of God.” In one of his songs, “Taste and See,” he said, “The world is not subtle, why should we be subliminal?” Good question – why? I…
Less Gushing, More Blushing
Biographical description many pastors write for the web site of their church: “Married to the most beautiful woman in the world.” “We have the best youth pastor in the country.” “He’s the smartest guy in every room…” I often joke…
Why God Is Not a Philosopher (and why Bavinck thinks theologians must be)
Discursive reason–our capacity to think things through, infer conclusions, offer logical explanations, and so on–enables us to argue a point, make judgments, criticize beliefs and actions, and, in a word, philosophize. Philosophers work with concepts and trade in arguments. Some…
Knowing Jesus: The Lake or the Drop?
Few people, this side of eternity, can claim to have known Jesus like the Apostle Paul did. Yet, not as a man outside of Christ, but as a man “in Christ,” Paul considered everything apart from Christ as “dung” because…
6 Ways to Benefit from Reading Genealogies, by Matthew Holst
Most Christians inwardly, if not outwardly, groan when they arrive at a genealogy in their Bible reading. This is a shame. The genealogies are wonderful and I love studying (not just reading) and preaching them. They are compressed histories of…
Sharing the Gospel Simply
How many non-Christians do you converse with face-to-face on a regular basis outside of normal working hours? With how many of them do you share the gospel? In my experience it seems that many within Presbyterian and Reformed circles do…
Why We Don’t Allow Comments
Comments are not allowed here at Reformation21. Why? Well, someone has to be in charge of editing out all of the stupid, vitriolic, inane, off-topic, and poorly worded comments that appear with great regularity on blogs that sometimes discuss controversial…
Why We Don’t Allow Comments
Comments are not allowed here at Reformation21. Why? Well, someone has to be in charge of editing out all of the stupid, vitriolic, inane, off-topic, and poorly worded comments that appear with great regularity on blogs that sometimes discuss controversial…
Adamic Evasions, Divine Provision: Calvin on Gen. 3.8-21
Calvin takes as given the historicity of Adam and Eve and the events surrounding their creation and fall. He rebukes, on this score, the 3rd century theologian Origen and “others like him” who — finding little of value in Adam…