Does “Jesus Plus Nothing” Mean “Jesus Minus Something?”
Here are six reasons why this phrase is lacking and unhelpful.
Finally, the sad fact is that talk of ‘Jesus plus nothing’ usually ends in holding to a form of Christian faith that is ‘Jesus minus something.’ Most often it represents a faith with an inadequate grasp of truth or too little theology and thought, or a faith that is ‘all Jesus’ but no God the... Continue Reading
You Can Get with THIS, Or You Can Get with THAT
There’s a whole line of Bibles one can purchase now for “creative journaling.”
Now, I love to doodle, but I think it’s highly inappropriate to doodle all over God’s Word. And this is doodle-for-show. I get it when people like to add a visual element to learning, but this is not really a method that would help someone truly study God’s Word. So you paint an abstract scene... Continue Reading
Amusing 1-Star Reviews of Great Books
Sometimes I amuse myself by reading really bad reviews of really good books
“I do this in part for the amusement factor but in part to remind myself of the nature of Amazon reviews. I read a lot of books and do much of my research and purchasing at Amazon. I find myself prone to look at a book’s star-rating and draw conclusions from it. Reading the 1-star... Continue Reading
‘A War for the Soul of America’
The “next American movement for liberation” will have to reckon far more with class and capitalism
“In recent months, campuses across the country have exploded with such conflicts, with Yale and the University of Missouri prominent among them. Then as now, questions about race, gender, and sexual orientation were at the forefront.” In some ways it is a mixed blessing for a book to be timely—and not just in the... Continue Reading
Why We Should Read Books
“We now have the intellectual attention span of squirrels – and it shows.” Denton
It’s becoming harder for us to focus on reading a whole article, much less an entire book. But we don’t have to give in to that. We need to exercise our brains to keep the firing paths moving for endurance in our attention spans and capacity to think deeply. Just like a constant diet of... Continue Reading
Taking the Roof Off
In The God Who Is There Schaeffer talks about “taking the roof off” of people’s lives.
“But if we do not take sufficient time to take the roof off, the twentieth-century man will not comprehend what we are trying to communicate, either what his death is caused by, or the solution. We must never forget that the first part of the gospel is not ‘Accept Christ as Savior’ but ‘God is... Continue Reading
A Justice Primer: The Investigation
Late last week, Canon Press released a statement with the findings from their investigation into the plagiarism in A Justice Primer.
I hope that Canon Press and the authors involved will be more careful in the future with their citations. I also think it would have been wise for Canon to have kept to their original statement on the plagiarism in A Justice Primer. It was clear and concise. I don’t believe their current statement has done... Continue Reading
Why I Wrote a Book about the Marrow Controversy
The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters sounds like a book title with a history. And so it is.
While these themes have taken center stage at particular periods in the church’s history, that is only the tip of the iceberg. They are perennially relevant because underneath them lies the most fundamental question of all: Who is the God whom we come to know in Jesus Christ (John 17:3)? What is he really like,... Continue Reading
“Woman, just try harder!”
Without proper discipleship, we got caught up in all the glitz and programs of today’s celebrity-driven church “bible” studies
Like everyone else, I thought that the celebrity writers of these bright, flowery studies were biblical. They certainly contained some familiar Bible verses and talked about God – and sometimes Jesus. But the narrative almost always seemed to point to the author, and her life, and her countless anecdotes about her kids, her husband, her... Continue Reading
“A Well-Ordered Church” – A Review
The book will be a help to any one who wants a basic overview of a Reformed ecclesiology
We live in a time when local churches come and go. Sometimes a person gets a “vision” to plant a church, so they just go ahead and do it with very little planning or purposely formed biblical foundations. On the other hand, some local churches that have been around for a while simply go on... Continue Reading
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