Who has Given to God?
In Psalm 50, Asaph instructs us about the true spirit of thanksgiving.
Asaph therefore highlights just one sacrifice as essential: “Offer to God thanksgiving” (Ps. 50:14). Literally, he says, “make a thank offering.” According to OT law, a thank offering was offered in the context of a believer’s gratitude, when a person was grateful for deliverance from enemies or for healing or for some other answered prayer.... Continue Reading
God Doesn’t Need You to Do His PR
There is no need to protect God from His own sovereignty.
How could meaning and purpose fail to follow when we submit ourselves to the providence of God? He stands behind our sorrows, not as the one who is necessarily morally responsible for their causes—He compels no man to fire a gun and no woman to drive in a drunken state—but as the one who ultimately... Continue Reading
How Genesis Proves Postmillennialism
If there was ever a way to discern the kind of world God would want, we must look no further than the one He made.
From the verdant gardens of Genesis 1, the mountains of Ararat in Genesis 9, the plains of Shinar in Genesis 11, to the lands of Canaan where God showered His patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Judah) with these promises of a future filled with unending blessings, God has been demonstrating His unwavering faithfulness to His... Continue Reading
Presbyterian Church (USA) Considers Forcing LGBTQ Affirmation
The proposed change to the Book of Order would require officers to be unfaithful to Scripture by forcing them to commit to allowing ordination of individuals living in sin and unqualified for ordination.
The proposal of OVT-001 is no surprise—the PCUSA has allowed same-sex marriage since 2014. This is symptomatic of the denomination’s more fundamental rejection of Scriptural authority, which has resulted in conservative Presbyterian churches breaking away from the PCUSA and forming other denominations as early as 1936. The PCUSA has not gained the world in return for... Continue Reading
Don’t Let Potential Negative Outcomes Keep You from Sharing Truth with Compassion
There are times when we are prepared, respectful, and gentle with our apologetic approach, yet it still doesn’t convince or convert.
We are called to be ambassadors for Christ, which includes modeling how he expressed truth and compassion. Some people will respond to the evidence we present; others won’t. We still share, we still love, and we still defend. I’d been preparing my argument for six months, and now it was time to deliver. I... Continue Reading
The Dispensational Interpretation of the Revelation, with Amillennarian Replies
Our dispensational brothers have stumbled over the Revelation because they have turned away from God’s appointed Teacher, the DNT, and clear NT teaching.
Praiseworthy as they are for their strong commitment to an inspired and perspicuous Bible, our dispensational brothers have stumbled badly in their interpretation of (OTKP and) the Revelation. Given the widespread popularity of this interpretation, it will serve us well to summarize the reasons why. First, they have misunderstood the intended audience of the book,... Continue Reading
Three Reasons Every Thoughtful Christian Should Read Wellum’s New ‘Systematic Theology’
Here you will find a reliable guide for doing theology in today’s context – a guide that uses the Bible’s theological framework and upholds the “Great Tradition.”
Wellum speaks candidly: “Scripture already gives us a specific theology and worldview, and our ‘making sense’ of it, that is, the constructive task of theology, must be true to the Bible’s own biblical-theological framework” (394). What is refreshing about this assertion is that Wellum doesn’t deny the existence of pre-existing frameworks. Rather, he contends that... Continue Reading
God Is Always at Work for Us and for Our Good
The awesome power of God usually remains hidden from view, it is absolutely real, and it is exercised for the well-being of His people.
God is always working powerfully and passionately for His people even when we do not see it. David’s poetic imagery shows us more than eyes can see. This truth is taught over and over again in the Bible. We need to have it taught repeatedly because we are so inclined to think that only the visible... Continue Reading
Global and Local Floods: Two Sides of the Same Coin
In a manner of speaking, the flood returns the world to the watery, empty situation of Genesis 1:2. The Lord then proceeds to “re-create” an ordered world.”
For Calvin, then, the Flood was not simply an influx of water. It was a disordering of creation that interrupted the normal working of nature. The world was undone on a much deeper level than is recognized by either of the two predominant views, and the result is a miracle as different from a naturalistic... Continue Reading
Friends, Not Enemies
Reconciling philosophy and theology under the lordship of Christ.
Today, many Christian theologians see themselves as principally opposed to philosophy so that they can build a theology largely devoid of any extrabiblical influence. Whether they embrace the label or not, this is a kind of “biblicism” that fails to appreciate or employ the right use of reason and the tools of philosophy. The major... Continue Reading
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