by | Sep 25, 2008 | Bible, Books, Preaching, Theology, Worship
I just read a fascinating sermon by Augustine on the love of money for one of my classes. The sermon was given on the occasion of a feast of a martyr, and Augustine’s main goal is to undercut the idea that the martyrs were somehow super-human in their capacity...
by | Jul 18, 2008 | Books, Church, Culture, Theology
D. A. Carson writes in his For the Love of God, Vol. 2 for the meditation on Jeremiah 14: Because our own culture tries so hard to detach from God what happens in the “natural” world, reserving for him only private or distantly “spiritual”...
by | May 10, 2008 | Bible, Books, Church, Theology
One of the ongoing struggles of evangelicals is to rid themselves of fundamentalist notions of “being separate” from the world. In the past, especially in the wake of public, humiliating losses in the public square on the issue of creationism (e.g., the...
by | Apr 14, 2008 | Bible, Books, Church, Culture, History, Theology
Over Spring Break, I read The Dispensational-Covenantal Rift: The Fissuring of American Evangelical Theology from 1936 to 1944. The book was originally a Ph.D. dissertation in Church History by a Dallas Theological Seminary graduate, and I found it absolutely...
by | Jan 23, 2008 | Books, Church, Theology, Worship
A. A. Hodge on the sacraments as “seals” of the covenant. I found it helpful: The sacraments were designed to ‘apply’—i.e., actually to convey—to believers the benefits of the new covenant. If they are ‘seals’ of the covenant, they...
by | Nov 15, 2007 | Books, Church, Theology, Worship
From a paper I wrote for my Worship Leadership class, where I reviewed The Eucharistic Sayings of Jesus by Joachim Jeremias: The last aspect of Holy Communion is its future, eschatological orientation. Joachim Jeremias noted that “The Jewish Passover at the time of...