As we approach the end of the school year, many of us will be making plans for the summer. If you’re like me, those plans will include much more time for reading. So I thought I would start making a list of my favorite books and share it with those who might be interested. First [...]
Posts under ‘Theology’
John Owen on Justification
It is vain to recommend the doctrine of justification unto them who neither desire nor endeavor to be justified. But where any persons are really made sensible of their apostasy from God, of the evil of their natures and lives, with the dreadful consequences that attend thereon, in the wrath of God and eternal punishment [...]
“Christian” “music” “artist” questions Scripture
I had never heard of Jennifer Knapp until a few weeks ago when she “came out.” I don’t know what she looks like and couldn’t tell you anything about her music. But I can tell you she’s got some serious problems with the Bible. She recently appeared on Larry King to promote herself debate the [...]
Another “Christian” “music” “artist” “comes out”
Jennifer Knapp, with whose music I am not familiar, has recently shocked her fans in the Christian music world by acknowledging that she is in an eight-year “relationship” with another woman. The Christian Post article that reports this also states that this move allows Jennifer to be “wholly myself.” The only problem with this is [...]
Brian McLaren continues to get it wrong
The Christian Post has posted an interview with Brian McLaren on its website. He talks about his new book and a few other things like the difficulty of believing in hell or the problems with Biblical inerrancy. He tells us numerous times that the term “original sin” does not appear in the Bible. This is [...]
Subjective truth vs. objective truth
Objective truth, or that which is true no matter what anyone else says, always trumps subjective truth, or that which is true because I feel that it’s true. Of course, it is entirely possible that the truth that I so firmly believe and feel is also that same truth which is also objective. But I [...]
Unless the Father draw him
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:44) Here the emphasis is on the divine decree of predestination carried out in history. When Jesus refers to the divine drawing activity, he employs a term which clearly indicates [...]
