Just Venting?
Proverbs 29:11 A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. One of the most popular film franchises of the last decade is The Purge. Without recommending these movies, their foundational premise is…
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A Personal Reflection on John MacArthur
I first met John MacArthur back in August 2018. I was beginning my second year working at The Master’s University. My mom was visiting to drop my sister off at her freshman year of college. We just had finished listening…
When “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” Is All the Logic Left
Spoiler alert: If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk, a straw, a broom, crayons, and eventually another cookie. The lesson of the story is simply that actions have consequences, which then…
Let’s Make Wisdom Great Again
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…
Wisdom Christology and the Bread of Life
When Calvin speaks of sharing the Lord’s Supper with Christ, covenantal concepts naturally arise, most notable when Calvin is discussing 1 Corinthians 10-11. Throughout his commentaries, Calvin frequently emphasizes that in the Supper we enjoy both the presence and the…
Wisdom Christology in James and 1 John
In the previous post in this series, we briefly considered how Calvin’s appreciation of wisdom theology is particularly present in his comments on the Johannine literature. In Calvin’s commentary of 1 John, we discover one of the marks of the wisdom theology,…
Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John: The Prologue
Having grown up in traditional Black churches, I have learned that being Reformed is more than simply assenting to a number of important doctrines (e.g. the doctrine of grace, the regulative principle of worship, covenant theology, etc.). By sitting under Reformed…
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…
Wise Technological Parenting
It is the apex of foolishness for parents to allow their children to have free and unaccountable access to technology– smart phones, tablets, iPods, computers, etc. Before I explain the reasons why I believe this, I want to make clear, in…
Prepping in Biblical Perspective
Like any movement, the prepping community includes a wide range of individuals. From preparing for zombie attacks to doomsday scenarios to hurricanes to simply preparing for the winter season, the underlying motives behind this movement have taken many forms–spanning the…