Theology has fallen on bad times. In one sense, it always has. The image of the guy with an insanely long beard, surrounded by books, looking like my guy here… …is just not appealing to us. It’s too cerebral, too based on the brain, too intellectual. “Christianity is not intellectual, it’s faith, the heart, the [...]

As you may gather when you read this blog, I am unashamedly Reformed in my theology. I fully affirm the teaching of the Second London Baptist Confession, commonly called the 1689 Baptist Confession and its five main areas of assent with classic Christian theology (you can listen to Greg Nichols’ fine lecture on this subject, [...]

As a confessing Reformed Baptist, I fully affirm its teaching regarding the three use of the laws. The Reformer Reader explains what the three uses are: When the Reformed and Lutheran scholastics talked about God’s moral law (lex moralis), they taught that there are three basic uses of the law (usus legis).  They are: 1) [...]

For years, I’ve taken myself too seriously. I’m the oldest of four kids – my three siblings supposedly watching and learning from my every step. Weight like that is hard enough. As if life had been designed to be this difficult, Dad was – and is – a pastor. Oldest son of a preacher, the [...]

A good few months, back before I got a self-hosted blog, I wrote a three-part series entitled “Rob Bell Speaks Out of Both Sides of His Mouth”. That 3-part series, especially the second part, is probably the most read piece I have ever written in two years of blogging. You can read that series in [...]

Dr. Bryan Chappell, President of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, and featured Bible teacher for Living Christ 360, preaching from the Gospel Coalition Conference on the theme “Preach the Word”: Go get Adobe Flash Player! To download the audio (and later on the video), visit the Gospel Coalition website

I heard about the ministry of Dr. Jones, a former professor at Westminster Theological Seminary and director of truthXchange, through some MP3s of his, looking at paganism. And  I was hooked. Fast forward to yesterday, and I was at Christian Research Net and I noted an article looked to by the Editor down there by…Dr. [...]

Please watch the following video. I do not endorse its contents in any way, shape or form, but it will serve as the “object” for today’s object lesson: (As an aside, I could have used the music video, but I decided against it.) Now you may think, “Eedjit! Why you corrupting my ears with that”. [...]

Last time, I began with some background as to the topic before us, looking at attitudes to the practice of tithing, and why people do it. Today, I wish to consider the definitions of tithing that are extant in the Christian world.

Here is Matt Slick’s look at the doctrines of the faith: Doctrine Grid      Following is a proposed chart that offers a layout of biblical orthodoxy.  It is designed to help categorize various doctrines into levels of importance.  I admit that some of these are debatable and I do not claim absolute correctness on all points [...]