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Let Them Come Home (John and Abraham Piper) In a recent Christianity Today interview, John Piper recounts the painful events surrounding the excommunication of his 19 year old son, Abraham. The night after that excommunication, I called him …
The Book of Revelation: How Difficult Was Its Journey into the Canon? The story of the New Testament canon is a fascinating one, with many twists and turns. There are books that were accepted very quickly, almost from the start (e.g., the four gospels), and there ar…
D.A. Carson: How Can We Reconcile the Old Testament God and the New Testament God? D.A. Carson responds
For my pre-mill, dispensationalist friends:In Matthew 24:36-42 Jesus says that His return will be like the days of Noah. People were eating and drinking, and being given in marriage, but the flood came and “took them all away”. Similarly, when Christ returns, “There shall be two men in the field; one is taken, and the…
I am reading an article concerning Jewish (rabbinic) thought on the possibility of incarnation. The author suggests that a rabbinic form of prayer, kawwanah, implies that if God is capable of being ‘imaged’ in prayer in His shekhinah glory, then He is capable of incarnation. But in the midst of all of this he spends…
Did you know: Origen charged Melito of Sardis with heresy? Gasp! Yes, Origen believed that the beloved Melito taught the corporeality of God. But Origen probably mistook Melito’s teaching about the incarnation as teaching about the being of God as consisting eternally as a body.
New Testament Pastors’ Prayer Requests to their People | First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi A List of NT prayer requests
It has been a long while since I have posted anything, due to the fact that my wife and my seminary studies and my preaching and teaching have been my priorities. However, I have decided that in between writing essays and sermons I need to have some sort of place to scrawl my ramblings into…
Robert Lewis Dabney, “The Bible its Own Witness”
Two reasons I am a Calvinist: “When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.” (Acts 13:48) “A woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening:…