I just saw on the internet that Shawn Johnson, the American female gymnist, finally won her gold medal, on the balance beam. For me, the highlight of the Olympics was not Michael Phelps, great as that was. I thought the…
In the third in a series of articles in which we examine Jesus’ encounters with various individuals, we take a look at the conversation of Jesus with Mary of Bethany in Mark 14:1-9. Jesus was on his way to Calvary.…
I’ve just been reading Collin Hansen’s Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists. It’s a fascinating exploration of the growing influence of names with which we are familiar: John Piper, Mark Dever, Al Mohler. I don’t get…
Rick Phillips was recently interviewed on Christ the Center. The subject was “Cultural Relevance, Mercy Ministry and the Social Gospel.” Here.
I have been involved in a friendly, and hopefully fruitful, discussion over at Green Baggins regarding Bible interpretation. I have been encouraged to post here some of my comments there. Because I am excerpting from a conversation, I will have to…
Preliminary Remarks I have been enraptured with the cross of Christ ever since I was drawn to Christ by his Holy Spirit working faith in me over 25 years ago. Ever since then I have come to an ever increasing…
Amidst all the hoo-hah out there about whether my pal Trueman is really a chinless theology-lite liberal, why anyone would want to study Lederhosen, whether Schleiermacher would really have spoken cockney dialect with a German accent, and other matters of…
I’ve been reading the late Robert Webber’s last book, Who Gets To Narrate the World? Contending for the Christian Story in an Age of Rivals (IVP, 2008), and came across these lines: “When we argue [in an evidentialist] way, we…
From my pastor’s letter this week: One of the most important things we will do at Second Presbyterian Church is disciple our children to a living, personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We live in a society that assumes…
Would-be theologians who use appeals to “narrative” (and its function in the theology of the writers of Scripture) as a means of undermining the enduring normative authority of Scripture will find themselves under the searching judgment of the normative authority of…
