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Quotes on Christ’s Resurrection (1)

I am also going to be compiling helpful quotes that I come across in my resurrection study. Here is one of many great ones that I have come across in my reading Richard Gaffin: The...

January 5, 2010No Comments

Christ’s Resurrection

I am conducting a study on the theological significance of Christ’s resurrection, looking at it in relation to others areas of Christian doctrine – so far, Christology, soteriology, creation, eschatology, apologetics, and good vs. evil....

January 2, 20103 Comments

A More General Statement on Covenantal Paedobaptism

Since I’ve been going through particular texts, I thought it would be good to give a more general response to the reformed/covenantal argument for paedobaptism. Its a big issue, and there are lots of points...

December 30, 20092 Comments

Are Mark 10:13-16 (and its parallels) valid prooftexts for paedobaptism?

I recently read Baptism: Three Views, ed. by David Wright, with Sinclair Ferguson arguing for paedobaptism, Bruce Ware for credo-baptism, and Anthony Lane for dual practice. I thought Ferguson’s selections were the best parts of...

December 4, 20094 Comments

Sibbes’ The Bruised Reed

I just finished reading Richard Sibbes’ The Bruised Reed, which is his lengthy exposition of Isaiah 42:3, “a bruised reed He will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will...

August 24, 2009No Comments

Biblical Inerrancy and Young Earth Creationism

Something I have noticed lately is that many people in our culture, especially non-Christian or nominally Christian people, seem to have gotten the idea that biblical inerrancy and young earth creationism are the same thing....

August 15, 20092 Comments

Thoughts on the extra Calvinisticum

As I was reading Timothy George on Calvin he made reference to his famous extra Calvinisticum doctrine. Extra Calvinisticum is Latin for “Calvin’s doctrine of the outer/beyond.” It means that during his earthly life, the...

July 30, 20098 Comments

Intelligent Design

I have been growing more and more convicted lately about the need in our society for people to speak out against naturalistic neo-Darwinism and not be bullied into silence by the contempt with which intelligent...

June 17, 20095 Comments

Genesis 5:3 and the Imago Dei

At the climax of the biblical creation narrative (Genesis 1:26-28) and throughout subsequent chapters (Genesis 5:1-2, 9:6) we are told that God made man “in his image, after his likeness.” But what does this mean?...

May 27, 20091 Comment