From D.A. Carson’s The Cross and Christian Ministry: Leadership Lessons from I Corinthians (Baker 1993): “When the pressure to ‘contextualize’ the gospel jeopardizes the message of the cross by inflating human egos, the cultural pressures...
Read moreI’ve been thinking about the issue of gay marriage lately. It seems like an issue that is going to be an increasingly divisive one in our culture, and in other post-Christian cultures, as secular and...
Read moreMy preparation for my Latin test last week required me to spend a lot of time in the “Further Readings” at the end of Collins’ A Primer on Ecclesiastical Latin. There were selections from the...
Read moreOne of the books I have read for my atonement seminar this fall is IVP Academics’ The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views. One of the most fascinating parts of the book for me came...
Read moreIโm grateful for Kevin DeYoungโs thoughtful response to my review of his The Hole in our Holiness. Instead of responding line-by-line, I wonder if it might be more helpful to comment more generally and more...
Read more[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBx4vvlbZ8] This was a fascinating debate at BIOLA in 2009. I think its the most interesting debate on theism that I have seen, although the Hitchens-Wilson debates are also interesting and have more back-and-forth interaction....
Read moreMost of my study time lately has been taken up preparing for a Latin placement test. But I have also been working on a review of Kevin DeYoung’s helpful new book on holiness, which has...
Read moreContinuing with my atonement reading, I just finished reading The Glory of the Atonement: Biblical, Theological, and Practical Perspectives, ed. by Charles E. Hill and Frank A. James III (IVP Academic, 2004), a collection of...
Read moreSometimes the Christian idea that there is life after death can be tough for people in our cultural setting to accept. I think the resurrection of Jesus provides the ultimate basis for the Christian hope,...
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