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Unlike Parenting Children, We Never Outgrow Our Need to be Shepherded
There is one important distinction between the metaphor of father and that of shepherd. Children grow up and become less dependent on their earthly father, though the relationship continues. Sheep, on the other hand, are always completely dependent on their shepherd....
Like Barry Manilow Tickets in a Biker Gang Fundraiser Raffle
It is a fact that falsehood is never so false as when it is very nearly true. It is when the stab comes near the nerve of truth, that the Christian conscience cries out in pain. G. K. Chesterton Chesterton lived a few decades before neo-orthodoxy (N-O) hit its stride...
Resources for Answering Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking's new book The Grand Design was released last week, and it has already caused quite a stir. Hawking, a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist, is most well known as the genius in a wheelchair, having lived with neuro-muscular dystrophy for many...
Preachers, Know When to Quit!
There are few things more disheartening as a congregant than hearing a forty minute preacher preach for fifty minutes, a thirty minute preacher preach for forty minutes, or a twenty minute preacher preach for thirty minutes. Somehow, that last ten minutes can weaken...
Is Revivalism Good for the Church? In a Word, No.
What role do revivalism, evangelists, emotional altar calls, crisis decisions, etc. have in a church dedicated to faithful preaching? According to Kevin Bauder, none. And I agree. Bauder is the president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Plymouth, MN, near...
Living with Deadlines
Nothing so focuses a man's mind as the thought that he is to be executed tomorrow. Unknown
Why Good Theologians Are Worth Reading, Even When They Are Sometimes Wrong
There is a heroic quality to the thought of men who are willing to tackle the greatest themes relating to God, creation, salvation, and the church: even when they make mistakes, they make magnificent mistakes from which we can all learn. In a day of small men and...
Meritorious Faith v. Instrumental Faith
One of the major differences between Calvinist and Arminian soteriology, between Monergism and Synergism, is the concept of faith. Calvinists see human response of faith as meritorious, and therefore must argue that faith is a gift from God, and not something...
Philosophy Fridays: Nietzsche as Prophet of Modern Christianity, Part 6
Nietzsche’s Antidote to Christianity Nietzsche’s purpose in attacking Christianity is multi-fold, but it can be argued that one of the main reasons was the need to overthrow the reigning metaphysic of the day in order to proclaim his own supposedly non-religious...
How do systematic theology and biblical theology relate?
Systematic theology and biblical theology have traditionally been conceived as somewhat disparate disciplines, constituting entirely different approaches to theology. Biblical theology is held by some to be somewhat suspect, since it originally arose among critics of...
What Role Do Culture, Religion and Politics Play in Global Conflicts?
My contention, however, is that the primary cause of most present conflicts in which the West is now engaged is not religion nor foreign policy, but culture. Culture is the radix of which the individual conflicts over specific aspects of Western policies are often...
What Is a Presupposition?
A presupposition is not a belief that one must have before (temporally speaking) one comes to believe in other things; rather, it is a belief that is independent of some other knowledge and governs that knowledge to some extent. John Frame, Cornelius Van Til: An...
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