If you haven’t noticed or been pointed to it yet, the Pulpit Blog has been running a series on the issues/controversy of so-called “Lordship Salvation” - although to be frank it’s only a controversy because some people seem to find it grossly distasteful and so reject the last couple of thousand years of Christian soteriological […]
What the church and the world need today, more than anything else, is to know and love God - the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. Very few people think of God as supremely happy in the fellowship of the Trinity and in the work of creation and redemption. The volcanic exuberance of […]
Some notes from my dissertation notebook, and a little introductary explanation!
The concept of righteousness as ‘forensic’ that is to say, that righteousness is concerned with the lawcourt as its primary analogy, and that justification is a declaration of righteousness as opposed to a transformation or similar often gets accused by those in other camps of […]
“The beautiful news is this: when God draws near in worship, we don’t have to head for the door - God loves to meet with His people. Yet sometimes it can be a pretty wise move to head for the floor, for we must stay ever mindful of the glory of the One we are […]
Because it’s life and breath and joy. Simple, eh?
Essentially because theology is the knowledge of God. In order to love God more, I have to know him better. In order to know God more one does theology. Hence, theology allows one to love God more. That’s why I do it. It should be one big […]
“The regenerating power of God, in redemption, works on the lives of the individual people of God. The revelation of redemption provides the framework within which the regenerated mind works to understand reality. The believer expresses fellowship with God by reaching out for true knowledge of God’s world, and by returning praise and thanks to […]
What kept nagging me about each church I visited was that no matter what the tradition or the theological persuasion was, they generally had a crooked Christology. What I mean is this: in visiting numerous churches scattered across the city and throughout the surrounding suburbs, rarely did i hear a clear declaration of the person […]
Gareth is having Jehovah’s Witnesses for dinner, and it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day. There has to be a joke in there somewhere…
The resolution of the divine displeasure at sin in the One who knew no sin being made sin is the basis of the divine reconciliation of those alienated from God by their sins.
Paul Barnett, The Second Epistle to the Corinthians, 315
I may be wrong here, but it seems like the New Perspective suffers very badly from focussing not even on the work of Christ, but on the benefits of Christ (and the pretty specific ones of covenant membership at that) to the exclusion of correct Christian devotion to the all-surpassing glory of the person of […]