You may have read my previous post entitled, Are “Authorial Intent” and “Christ-Centered” Mutually Exclusive? (if not, you may want to do so before continuing, although it’s not necessary). But this post prompts the question, if we are to preach Christ in [...]
As interpreters, teachers, and preachers of God’s word we desire to be faithful to the Biblical text. We know that this entails interpreting Scripture according to the Biblical authors’ original intent, historical context, and literary context, among other things. We [...]
Let me be frank; my goal in this post is to inform you that “fundamentalist” and “fundamentalism” are pejorative terms and connote things with which I hope many of us would not want to associate. Therefore, to those whom it applies, unless [...]
I’ve been described before as a dreamer, a person with a big imagination. Sometimes it’s a bad thing, like when I used to sit in certain college courses and daydream about playing basketball at Riverside Park just down the street [...]
Introduction Let me start out by saying that this is a response to Dave Marriott’s blog post entitled Guarding What Is Primary: Second Degree Separation which was posted today on The Gospel Toolbox. But with that said, let me add that I [...]
April 30, 2013
Church, Ministry
Hear me out. I full heartedly believe that practical application is important. And I also believe that every portion of Scripture has practical implications for our lives because every text has theological significance and all theology is practical; don’t misunderstand [...]
One of the most overplayed/over-covered songs of all time is “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”, but I think a better song for my life could be “Waking Up Is Hard to do.” I really struggle sleeping well, and of [...]
John Piper, more than any other writer and teacher alive today, has influenced who I am as a young theologian, a Christian, a husband, a son, a brother, a man. This past Sunday Bethlehem Baptist Church held a final “farewell [...]
April 16, 2013
Current Events
An Introductory Biblical Theology of Regeneration as it Pertains to a Proper Understanding of Inaugurated Eschatology In contrast to systematic theology, a discipline that tackles doctrines in a neat, organized, systematic, and generally atemporal fashion, Biblical theology seeks to examine [...]
Last year I saw this video on how the Gospel transformed a man who was once ran a sex trafficker. I thought you might like to watch it. To God be the glory. [...]
Alright, so I may have overstated things a bit in my title. There are of course subsequent debates on this issue, e.g., Erasmus v. Martin Luther,1 Arminianism v. Calvinism, and of course the frequent debates in Christian college dorm rooms. And don’t forget [...]
April 10, 2013
Early Church
In somewhat recent times, attacks have been leveled by “liberal” scholars against the belief in scripture’s inerrancy, that the Bible is infallible and without error in its original writings. Many have claimed that early 1900′s Christian conservatives, evangelical-fundamentalists, such as [...]