Jesus Creed
Our kingdom series now moves to Mark 4:26, the fifth reference to kingdom: |inline Read more
Our kingdom series now moves to Mark 4:26, the fifth reference to kingdom: |inline Read more
A distinct contribution of Gerald McDermott’s God’s Rivals is his exposition of how the earliest Christians approached the question of other religions. Chp 5 deals with Justin Martyr’s ideal of “seeds of the Word in other religions.” |inline Read more
Stephen Tomkins’ gift seems to be irony and the ability to prick the halo bubble around saints, which he did with John Wesley but does a little less directly in his book William Wilberforce: A Biography. |inline Read more
We turn today to two texts, Mark 3:24 and 4:11. Here are the texts: |inline Read more
John Franke, professor at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA, has assigned my penitence to be reading Calvin’s treatment of infant baptism (Institutes of the Christian Religion). Today I turn to 4.16.21-22. The rumor is that John has escaped my critique and has headed north from Geneva to the low countries to see if he can find some Anabaptists. Here’s the latest picture I’ve seen of him: |inline Read more
John Franke, professor at Biblical Seminary in Hatfield, PA, has assigned my penitence to be reading Calvin’s treatment of infant baptism (Institutes of the Christian Religion). Today I turn to 4.16.21-22. The rumor is that John has escaped my critique and has headed north from Geneva to the low countries to see if he can find some Anabaptists. Here’s the latest picture I’ve seen of him: |inline Read more
“That sav’d a wretch like me!” These are words from the second line of America’s favorite hymn, a hymn written by John Newton and a central chapter in Jonathan Aitken’s fine, uplifting, and well-written biography called John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace. |inline Read more
There are 85/eighty-five distinguishable references to “kingdom” in the Synoptic Gospels. There are more references, but there are overlaps between Matthew, Mark and Luke that permit us to narrow the references to 85. We’ll look at each one. Here is my breakdown if you’d like it: |inline Read more
Gerald McDermott, in God’s Rivals, addresses an issue of major significance in the Church today, especially (so it seems to me) for the emerging crowd. The issue is the role of world religions and how Christians can explain them. In chp 4 he addresses the NT evidence suggesting early Christians believed in “real supernatural powers besides God.” |inline Read more
Over Christmas break I read six biographies, one of which I posted about already but which will come up again later this week. Today I want to focus on my favorite biography of the break: that of William Tyndale, by David Daniell called William Tyndale: A Biography. I studied at Tyndale House during the second year of my doctoral research, knew a bit about him, but this book did it for me. |inline Read more
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