One of Jesus’ names is Immanuel: Hebrew for “God with us.”
Reading the Gospels it is rather obvious that while Jesus was always ethically righteous before the Father he was not always “with” the Father or as “close” to the Father in a significant way. Being tempted in the wilderness was not the same experience […]
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I am not tracking the controversy, but I love this quotable it produced. In my opinion it belongs on the BHT masthead:
I am personally wondering how to articulate the different between “Reforming Faith” (which seems to be the Reformation call - “always reforming) and a “Reformed Faith.” (The rediscovery of a 16th Century expression […]
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What book, to the extent that a book can be credited with such a thing, pushed me over into “calvinism”? Arthur Pink’s The Sovereignty of God was the one.
Later, I sort of let go of Pink because I sort of felt compelled by (irrational) Presbyterian loyalties to put my stock in paedobaptist authors. […]
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I’m going to pray the sinner’s prayer again. I prayed it two years ago, but I didn’t really understand it, the importance of Christ’s death and it’s relationship to my sin…. Of course, that was why I prayed it two years ago. A year and a half earlier I prayed it. […]
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For anyone in Saint Louis, the moving party begins at 8 AM on Saturday. I’ll provide lots of empty calories! Please come.
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Thanks go to David Ponter for this neat quotation from Charles Hodge on First John 2.2:
In answer to this question, it may be remarked in the first place that Augustinians do not deny that Christ died for all men. What they deny is that he died equally, and with the same design, for all men. […]
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Thinking about Jeff’s post on “covenant succession” raised some thoughts of my own. In First Samuel we read about Eli and his sons. This first comes up in chapter two:
12 Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord. 13 The custom of the priests with the people […]
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I mean, the struggle of Darwinism to survive. This is a fascinating post from the Pearcey Report.
I guess I still haven’t properly phrased it though: I mean, the struggle of Darwinists to make a living and keep their prestige.
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I try not to talk about it, and I expect no one to agree with me (at best!), but I pretty much disagree with our current administration’s foreign policies (as well as related domestic ones). I have nothing but sympathy, for example, for many “anti-American” statements coming from the Bishop of Durham. Of […]
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Jeff gave part one of a lecture on postmodernism last night which I really appreciated. His use of power point allowed him to show examples from art and architecture instead of simply reducing everything to philosophy and words.
In my more general exposure, I’m not real happy with pomo discussions because I think the term […]
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More about this. Here is a statement from the preface to the Missourri Presbytery report:
The members of the study committee recognize that some of the current tension in the PCA is connected to the tension between biblical theology and systematic theology. We affirm that biblical theology done within the church and in its […]
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Right now there are a few major points being asserted by the anti-”federal vision” movement in the PCA. One of the major ones is this:
The terms of systematic theology are the real meaning of the words as they are used in Scripture and anyone who uses terms differently is being dangerous.
One of the fascinating […]
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Great stuff from Paul Duggan.
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Safari, for the mac-unabled, is the name of my browser. Here are some bookmarks I’ve added to my list:
Lowe’s Home Improvement How-To Library
Home Depot’s Know How
Extreme How-To
Finally, I need to add one more site I’m having fun with but which doesn’t work with Safari. Zillow.com is the reason I allow Firefox to eat […]
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I’ve been meaning to add links in the sidebar to the blog of various members of my church, but never got around to it. Tonight my laziness paid off and I just cut and pasted all Jon’s hard work.
There has been a death to someone close. I hesitate to post details without explict […]
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Peter Leithart writes:
Christopher Jencks lamented in his Language of Postmodern Architecture that the term had been used in ways opposite to his own usage: “When I first wrote the book in 1975 and 1976 the word and concept of Post-Modernism had only been used with any frequency in literary criticism. Most perturbing, as I later […]
