Archive for category: Theology Matters

   Dan Wallace has published a fairly lengthy response to NT Wright’s central assertions regarding the righteousness of God. The article is titled Δικαιοσύνη Θεοῦ and N. T. Wright. The first URL Dan provided contained unicode, like this: http://bible.org/article/δικαιοσύνη-θεοῦ-and-n-t-wright. While that is really pretty and all, I don’t think the majority of folks would find that to work, and e-mail programs

Had a brief “conversation” on Twitter today. Trying to discuss topics like this with 140 character limits is often frustrating, but, sometimes, challenging in a good way. Started with the following question: Hey Doc, listening to stuff on WLCraig. can you explain the dif between some Calvt’s “best of all poss worlds” vs molinism? I replied: Molinism: God is constrained

I was recently on the “Iron Sharpens Iron” (ISI) radio program. Here’s a link to the ISI page about the call (link) and here is direct link to the mp3 (link). The following is an outline of some of the topics discussed. This is not a transcript, but more or less notes for the discussion. I. In General – Regarding

   I received a copy of The Restitution of Jesus Christ by “Servetus the Evangelical” recently. Not too unexpectedly, it is a spiral bound book, like almost every other “I’ve gone apostate and now I deny the Trinity and I’m going to explain why now in this awesome book with insights no one has ever produced but me” type book I’ve

Mr. Greg Koukl has lots of good things to say on many topics, but I was a bit disappointed by his recent post/video on the topic of Repentance, which he titles: “Repentance Has Nothing to Do with Sin.” (link to post with embedded video)

   And therefore it must needs be, that a sight of God’s loveliness must begin here. A true love to God must begin with a delight in his holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this, and no otherwise than as (according to our way of conceiving of God) it

   There are so many worthless things that take up our days. Put some of them aside for just under an hour and listen, or watch. Don’t do so listening for imperfections, do so listening for words of life. You cannot help but be touched deeply by the words of a dying sister in the Lord. If you wish to listen

   I decided to tackle one of Dan Barker’s favorite topics straight on in the Sunday morning sermon at PRBC. What about those difficult texts where God commands the literal extermination of an entire tribe, or city, or even nation?

   Though I have never been much of a “fan” of the music of the Hemphills, I am aware of the name and their influence in “Christian music.” Joel Hemphill was inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame last year; the Hemphills as a family have recorded 27 albums and received eight Dove Awards. To say they are well

On June 1 of this year Mr. Brant Bosserman (Trinitarian) and Mr. Sean Finnegan (Unitarian) debated the topic of the Trinity. I had a chance to listen to the debate and I enjoyed it very much. I trust you will as well. Click here to listen. I’ve heard Brant on two other occasions and appreciated very much what he had

   Here are two blog articles I looked at today. I think a comparison of their methodology, spirit, and guiding principles, is educational. One is from a convinced and inveterate synergist, the other a convinced monergist.

   Theology matters. The substance of what God in His infinite wisdom has revealed to His creatures is the marrow of the joy of the believer’s heart—and mind. Theology matters because theology is possible because of God’s initiative in revelation. What God reveals is, by definition, important, central, vital, life-changing, heart-enrapturing, for all in whom the Spirit dwells. And thanks be

Read John Piper’s latest book The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright (Crossway, 2007) by clicking here.

For those interested in the theology of Jonathan Edwards and/or the impeccability of Jesus (i.e. He could not sin), maybe interested in this recently published journal article: Jonathan Edwards’s Freedom of the Will and his defence of the impeccability of Jesus Christ, by Philip J Fisk. Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 60, Is. 3 (article is not online). Here is

Back in August I posted this resource from Rodney Decker on critiquing Ehrman’s Bauerian views. If you would rather load the MP3 into your iPod, here is the link.

   Jimmy Akin has added some new rules for posting on his blog: 23. The following terms are pejorative and their use as actual descriptors (as opposed, for example, to quoting someone else’s use of them for purposes of critique) constitutes rudeness: “Romanist,” “Romish,” “Roman” (when used to mean or as a substitute for “Catholic”), “Roman Church” (when used to mean

Just a quick entry. I am packing for the trip and have to run by the store. I grab a bite to eat at KFC (had a hankering for corn on the cob!) and sit down at our kitchen counter to eat. We don’t have cable or satellite (no, I just know I’d spend way too much time watching the