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 [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Hillsong, Rob Bell, etc.
Over the last few days I’ve been perusing the websites of Rob Bell and his Mars Hill Church, and Hillsong Church and all the various spin-offs from Hillsong (like Hillsong United and I-Heart), because these have been mentioned favorably by some of my students. So I thought I would post a few of my thoughts [...]
The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy
There’s a good article over at Modern Reformation about an issue that’s near and dear to me – biblical illiteracy. It’s by David Nienhuis, who is a professor of New Testament at Seattle Pacific University, and is written about his experience with incoming students, most of whom claim to be Christians. I found this quote [...]
The Order of Creation by R C Sproul
…the New Testament passages that call wives to submit to their husbands and men only to lead in the church have been greeted with vociferous protests. Calumnies have been launched against the apostle Paul for being a first century chauvinist, while others have sought to historicize and relativize these rules by arguing that they were [...]
The special creation of Man
In our Bible Doctrine classes, we began our semester today with a discussion about the creation of Man or Mankind. I know that these are terribly sexist words today that might horribly offend a women’s libber, but we’re only teaching what the Bible teaches. It says, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to [...]
