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If You Can’t See God, It’s Because You Are Blind
Unless we are born again, we cannot see the kingdom of God. A man once stood on a soap box at Hyde Park Corner, pouring scorn on Christianity. "People tell me that God exists, but I can't see him. People tell me that there is a life after death; but I can't see it....
The Importance of Sound Doctrine in Preaching for the Faith of the Church
The novelist and essayist, Dorothy Sayers once heard a dean of Mansfield College, Oxford say that "The tragedy of all this doctrine, however interesting to theologians, is hopelessly irrelevant to the life and thought of the average man." She responded with these...
Apologetics for the Average Christian: Asking Good Questions, Part 2
The kind of apologetics that challenges the objections raised against the Christian faith is often called presuppositionalism (although some prefer other names, such as the transcendental approach or covenantal apologetics). Rather than accepting the unbeliever’s...
Apologetics for the Average Christian: Asking Good Questions
The heart of apologetics is giving an answer to that coworker who asks how you can believe in God when there is so much evil and suffering in the world. It is making a defense of the Scriptures when your classmate challenges the reliability of the Bible. It is...
The Natural World Has God’s Name Written All Over It
The whole of created reality, including therefore the fields of research with which the various sciences deal, reveals the same God of which Scripture speaks. The very essence of created reality is its revelational character. Scientists deal with that which has the...
Faith and Reason: How Do They Work Together?
A common misconception among believers and unbelievers alike is that faith and reason are incompatible. Atheist Richard Dawkins arrives at this conclusion based on his definition of faith: “Believing in spite of evidence to the contrary.” Now, no person of faith can...
Without God, Knowledge of Anything is Just Wishful Thinking
Not one single fact in this universe can be known truly by man without the existence of God. Even if man will not recognize God’s existence, the fact of God’s existence nonetheless accounts for whatever measure of knowledge man has about God… Now if every fact in this...
The Spiritual Value of Systematic Theology
I’ll never forget the off-hand remark of a long-time member of my home church the first time I returned for a visit after taking the teaching position I held as a seminary professor. He hadn’t seen me for awhile and didn’t know that I had recently left the pastorate...
The Value of Systematic Theology to Pastors
Pastors are busy. I know; I was one. They hardly have time to prepare their sermons every week while at the same time visiting, counseling, planning, fixing, etc. Ask most pastors what good theology books they've read recently and you'll be greeted by blank stares....
The Value of Systematic Theology for Defending the Faith
Many people believe that the basis and source of defending the faith is different than that of knowing the faith. That is, they believe that we do systematic theology by appealing to the Scriptures, and we defend our faith by appealing to reason or philosophy (since...
Thank You for Telling Me About God. Now Leave Me Alone To Worship My Idols.
I was reading in Daniel this morning when I saw something I had never seen before (don’t you love how the Holy Spirit does that!), and I couldn’t read any further. After Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream (Dan. 2), in which a rock (Christ) destroys the...
The Mystery of the Essence of God Contemplated
Reference to God’s incomprehensible essence also warns us against imagining what God is like, which would lead us inexorably down the road to idolatry. Recognizing God’s infinite and spiritual essence keeps us from thinking that God can be represented in imagery. Paul...
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