A Parable on the Use of the Means of Grace
Saturday, April 24th, 2010A young man once fancied a woman. She was beautiful and wise and strong and made a comfortable living. She owned a coffee shop that the young man went to. A friend of his introduced him to her and he fell in love at once and she loved him too. He began to frequent the [...]
A Grace-filled Covenant of Works
Friday, January 8th, 2010Another name for Reformed Theology is Covenant Theology. The idea is that God relates to man through the structure of a covenant. Covenants are what structures redemptive history and even the intra-Trinitarian decision to redeem a people for God. So when Covenant Theologians (myself included) look at redemptive history, we see an eternal covenant (Hebrews [...]
The Newness of the New Covenant
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Justin Taylor posted an excerpt from an essay on the New Covenant by D. A. Carson. I really like Carson on a lot of things and count myself blessed to have sat under his teaching at Trinity, but this is one of the areas I don’t agree with him on. I am a credobaptist (one [...]
Conversion Pictured
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Doug Wilson is a very good author. I’ve been enjoying the online, chapter-a-Monday installments of his latest novel Evangellyfish. Well, “enjoy” doesn’t really capture the range of emotions triggered, not all of them comfortable. Anyway, we’re at the end of the story and one of the minor characters who has been going to church “gets [...]
The Christian and the Law
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Recently I taught on Colossians 2:16-17 and we talked about the relationship between the Christian and the law. What I wanted to do was to point out that the issue of the Sabbath is important and is handled in different ways by Bible believing Christians. For me that opened the question of how we understand [...]
Hell and Dam
Thursday, July 17th, 2008God’s grace is a big deal. How can you tell? Because hell is so horrible. If God’s wrath against sin is that intense, then the grace that matches it must be pretty huge as well. However, if hell isn’t a real representation of the immensity of God’s wrath, if his wrath is not that bad, [...]