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Thoughts on Jim Belcher’s Deep Church

On our way back from Chicago this Christmas Esther and I stopped in Grand Rapids, where I picked up Jim Belcher’s Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional (IVP 09), which we read...

February 22, 2010No Comments

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (10)

“Take away Easter and Karl Marx was probably right to accuse Christianity of ignoring problems of the material world. Take it away and Freud was probably right to say Christianity is wish-fulfillment. Take it away...

February 15, 20101 Comment

Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (9)

Milligan on the (circular) relationship between the fact of the resurrection and its theological meaning: “The Preaching of the Resurrection of our Lord by His Apostles was not simply a display of evidence. It was...

February 13, 2010No Comments

Record Blizzard

We are in the middle of an all-time record blizzard here in DC. The previous record for snowiest month in Washington D.C. was 35.2 inches, set in February 1899 – by the end of the...

February 10, 20101 Comment

Owen on Christ’s Glorified Humanity

I came across this passage in John Owen’s The Glory of Christ (p. 65 of the Puritan Paperbacks edition) which touches upon my previous post, A Body in Heaven?: “That very nature itself which Christ...

February 10, 2010No Comments

The Price of Adventure

They stood for a while silent on the hill-top, near its southward edge. In that lonely place Frodo for the first time fully realized his homelessness and danger. He wished bitterly that his fortune had...

February 7, 2010No Comments

Repentance and Doubt

Tonight these thoughts emerged from me as I pondered the ways I have struggled with doubt, and the ways God has met me in them: The solution to intellectual doubts is not intellectual answers. The...

February 7, 20102 Comments

Two Calvin Quotes

Calvin, commenting on Exodus 34:6-7, writes: “Thereupon his powers are mentioned, by which he is shown to us not as he is in himself, but as he is towards us; so that this recognition of...

February 6, 20101 Comment

The Risen Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King

In my study on the resurrection, I have focused in on the question: how does the resurrection of Christ serve his mediatorial offices of prophet, priest, and king? I have become convinced that the resurrection...

February 1, 2010No Comments