A Critical Review of the Bible (the miniseries, that is)
I wasn’t one of the privileged few who got to pre-screen the History Channel’s miniseries, The Bible, but I thought a retrospective word... Read More
The Eclipse of Creation and New Creation in Biblical Theology
One of the tensions of pan-denominational evangelicalism that fixates entirely on Gospel essentials is the eclipse of the bookends of biblical theology:... Read More
The Rites of the Gathered Church as Ordinary Means of Grace
In Reformed life, one commonly hears reference made to the “ordinary means of grace,” a category that typically includes the reading of... Read More
Kevin DeYoung’s The Hole in Our Holiness: A Review
A few months ago I expressed some fairly strong reservations about a nefarious variation of “Gospel-Centered” sanctification that has captured the attention... Read More
On Preaching Hell…and Holiness
Last week a respondent to one of my earlier posts chastised me for addressing matters of sin and sanctification because in doing... Read More
If You Enjoyed the Halftime Show You Should Repent
There, I’ve said it. OK, maybe (and I mean MAYBE) a case could be made that a mature believer could justify watching... Read More
Union with Christ or Justification as the Heart of the Gospel?
The recent tiffs over the role of personal obedience and activity in sanctification is symptomatic of a much deeper theological struggle that... Read More
On Having No Creed but the Bible
I just finished reading a marvelous little tome by Carl Trueman, The Creedal Imperative, and cannot help but exclaim its merits. It... Read More
“These Tragedies Must End”
We are conditioned at times to think that grace and theology are confined to the spiritual realm—to believers and the church. Outside... Read More
The Problem with "Gospel-Centered" Sanctification
The blogosphere has been humming lately with questions of Christian freedom and Christian depravity, the role of faith and works in sanctification,... Read More