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 11, 2008 | Church
Sean Michael Lucas, a professor of Church History at Covenant Theological Seminary, wrote a very insightful and helpful post on his blog entitled Ministerial Students, Calling, and PhD Studies. I never even remotely considered PhD studies before I went to seminary,...
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 | May 7, 2008 | Bible, Church, Preaching, Theology, Worship
Is it a good thing that most churches have generally only one man preaching? Obviously, there are some churches that only have one pastor trained to preach, and most churches that generally only utilize one man have other preachers once every 4-6 weeks (on average)....
by | May 1, 2008 | Bible, Church, Culture, Theology, Worship
And they sang a new song, saying, Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God,...
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...