I finished translating through the theophanic vision of God in 3:3-15 this morning, and suddenly it hit me how vital this section is in the larger context.ย I used to view it as a very...
Seven “take aways” from my recent study on Habakkuk: 1) The commentaries by O. Palmer Robertson (NICOT) and Peter C. Craigie (DSBS) are very helpful.ย I differ with Robertson on how to interpret 3:2, and...
3) Inerrancy as a battle front I was continually struck by the role that the doctrine of biblical inerrancy has played in separating fundamentalists and evangelicals from various other movements.ย This doctrine is not merely...
Over the past several weeks I’ve been giving a slow and thoughtful read to George Marsden’s Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Eerdmans 1987), which is a history of the controversial first two...
Listening to Perelandra this week.ย My favorite part is when Ransom and the Un-man fight.ย I especially love this scene, where Lewis describes the evil of the Un-man (the devil), and then Ransom finds new...
Questions the Lord is teaching me to ask these days in my journey following Christ: 1) What do I look to more than Jesus to feel worth and identity? 2) What competes with knowing God...
Lighter posting this week, as I am devoting my mornings to preparation for a sermon this Sunday on Habakkuk 2:4, “the righteous shall live by faith.”ย I am going to examine the meaning of of...
Finished G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy today.ย Loved it.ย Well worth the time.ย Would like to read The Everlasting Man sometime, too – C.S. Lewis called it the best popular apologetic for Christianity he knew – but...
Just finished chapter 8 of Orthodoxy, “The Romance of Orthodoxy,” which is Chesterton’s critique of several of the prevailing tenets of modernism.ย Specifically, he argues that it is not liberal but rather illiberal to disbelieve...
