by | Oct 13, 2007 | Books, Church, Culture, History, Theology, Worship
We had midterms this past week, which caused no little stress in my life. This was the perfect storm of schoolwork, and I cannot remember doing more work in one week since I had to write my senior thesis in a week, and then preach that Sunday, a couple of years ago....
by | Apr 5, 2007 | Books, Preaching, Theology, Worship
From John Stott’s The Cross of Christ: For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices...
by | Mar 29, 2007 | Bible, Books, Culture, History, Theology
Yesterday in my theology class, my professor expressed his disagreement with Augustine’s conception of the nature of evil. Augustine essentially argued three things: God created all things, so that nothing exists that God did not create. God created all things...
by | Mar 2, 2007 | Bible, Books, Theology
This past year that I have been in seminary in Alabama, I have still tried to keep up with the Daily Nebraskan, the school newspaper from my undergraduate institution, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. On Wednesday, they ran an editorial asserting that the Bible...
by | Mar 1, 2007 | Bible, Books, Church, Culture, History, Theology
I mentioned awhile ago that I was writing a paper to contrast baptism and the Lord’s Supper in Baptist and Presbyterian thought. I just finished the paper, although, as I began writing it, I realized that I only had enough space to focus on baptism. Here is one...
by | Feb 15, 2007 | Books, Church, Theology
I am writing a paper for my church history class that will contrast sacramental theology in the Westminster Confession of Faith and one of the Baptist confessions–probably the Baptist Faith and Message of 1925. In my research, I just came across an excellent...