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Numbers, Nearness, and Holiness

by | May 27, 2009 | Bible, Church, Theology

Biblically speaking, humanity’s nearness to God is more complicated than we often imagine. For example, the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee” would suggest that closeness to God is always a good thing, but this simply is not the case. Rather, the Bible...

Blessed Ascension Sunday!

by | May 24, 2009 | Church, Theology, Worship

Today is Ascension Sunday, and I was pleased that my church celebrated Christ’s Ascension and included a part of the Heidelberg Catechism on the subject: Question 49. Of what advantage to us is Christ’s ascension into heaven? Answer: First, that he is our...

Ransomed from every language, Part 2

by | Oct 22, 2008 | Bible, Church, Culture, Theology, Worship

Last May, I wrote a post that suggested that in heaven all the redeemed might speak our individual languages, rather than learning some universal, heavenly language. I was thinking more about this thought this morning, and, being in the process of reading gobs of...

Augustine on Coercing People into the Kingdom

by | Oct 9, 2008 | Books, Church, Theology

Does anyone doubt that it is preferable for people to be drawn to worship God by teaching rather than forced by fear of punishment or by pain? But because the one type of people are better, it does not mean that the others, who are not of that type, ought to be...

The Necessity of Factions in the Church

by | Sep 6, 2008 | Bible, Church, Theology

Edit, 1/22/2011: I have been going back through some old blog posts, and I wanted to write that I do not find this blog post persuasive at all any more. I want to leave it here, but the more I read this, the more I hear Paul’s words dripping with sarcasm, not...

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