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Help on Romans 9 from John Piper

In thinking through the doctrine of election this spring in one of my systematic theology classes, I found John Piper’s book The Justification of God very helpful in discerning how corporate/historical election and individual/eternal election...

May 2, 2008No Comments

Reflections on Hebrews (1): What’s up with Melchizedek?

I am reading through Hebrews in my devotions right now, one of my favorite books of the bible, and a book I would like to do further study on in the years to come. For...

April 28, 20081 Comment

Reflections on Habakkuk (1): Though the Fig Tree Should not Blossom

One of my favorite books in the Bible is Habakkuk. Its a very unique book – short, rich in content, and dealing with the deep themes of God’s sovereignty, judgment, mercy, idolatry, suffering, faith, and...

April 22, 20082 Comments

Reflections on the Trinity (3)

In my continued reflections on the difficult, weighty, and beautiful doctrine of the Trinity, I looked a bit tonight at the fourth and final section of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, entitled “Beyond Personality: Or First...

April 8, 20082 Comments

Two Arguments against Neo-Darwinism

Although I accept evolution on a limited scale (for example, as an explanation of the different races of human beings), I don’t find the scientific evidence for naturalistic evolution as an explanation of all life...

March 31, 20083 Comments

Reflections on the Trinity (2)

I want to return to something I referred to in my last post (and have written about elsewhere), namely, my struggle with this doctrine during college. I found the Trinity difficult because it just seemed...

March 26, 2008No Comments

Reflections on the Trinity (1)

I have been pondering the doctrine of the Trinity lately. When I was a younger Christian I never really critically examined this belief, and when I was in college it gave me great difficulty because...

March 22, 20089 Comments

Question for Calvinists

Today in one of my classes, II Peter 2:1 came up in relation to the Calvinist doctrine of limited atonement. For those out there who hold to limited atonement, how do you interpret this verse?...

March 14, 20084 Comments

20 Reasons why Christians should care for the Environment

Christians should be the best environmentalists on the planet, because we uniquely understand what the environment is, what has gone wrong with it, what is being done to fix it, and what our role is...

March 8, 200810 Comments