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April 2014

April 26, 2014
Theologians I Have Known: Reflections on Their Personalities Part 1 Over the approximately forty years...
April 24, 2014
Faith and Reason: Is Christianity Irrational? It's common for especially evangelical Christians and secularists to...
April 22, 2014
Another Reformed Pastor-Theologian Affirms "Subsequence" of Spirit-baptism (R. T. Kendall) Recently I talked here about...
April 20, 2014
A Theologian's Reflections on the Movie "Heaven Is for Real" Either serendipitously or providentially, this...
April 19, 2014
A Favorite Theologian Revisited: Emil Brunner (Review of Alister McGrath's Book: Part Two) This is...
April 17, 2014
I grew up Pentecostal and have now been Baptist for, oh, about forty years. The...
April 16, 2014
Some Emil Brunner Sayings (Quotations Mainly from Dogmatics) These quotes are from Dogmatics I: The...
April 15, 2014
A Favorite Theologian Revisited: Emil Brunner (Review of Alister McGrath's Book: Part One) My heart...
April 13, 2014
My previous post was about my perception that there is nothing new in theology; every...
April 11, 2014
What's New in Theology? (Some Musings about Novelty—Or Not) One of the curses of getting...
April 08, 2014
Some Thoughts on Christianity and Capital Punishment 1. The conversations among Christians (and of Christians...
April 06, 2014
Does God Change? I don't remember when it happened, but I remember the shock I...
April 06, 2014
This fall (2014) I will be teaching an elective seminar on the Holy Spirit. I...
April 04, 2014
Recently I re-read Jonathan Edwards "Dissertation on the End for Which God Created the World."...
April 01, 2014
I've listened to preaching all my life. My father was a preacher (52 years). Many...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
I finally watched the movie "12 Years a Slave." It was very difficult to watch....
March 29, 2014
Is the "Arminian God" Good? Several times I have argued here that a main reason...
March 26, 2014
Off the Usual Topics: Gender Double Standards We hear and see a lot decrying cultural...
March 24, 2014
"Belong, Believe, Behave?" Or "Believe, Behave, Belong?" I'm not sure who first suggested the idea,...
March 20, 2014
Something that dismays me is the common confusion between "Christian orthodoxy" and "fundamentalism." There are...
March 19, 2014
Suppose someone said "God is sovereign but God's sovereignty is different from our ideas of...
March 16, 2014
Why (High) Calvinism Is Impossible By "impossible" I don't mean, of course, "doesn't exist." I...
March 14, 2014
What Attracts People into the Young, Restless, Reformed Movement? That is probably the question I'm...
March 12, 2014
When Jesus Said “Follow Me” Did He Mean “On Twitter?” Ethics and Social Networking The...
March 10, 2014
So, John Piper has now responded to Austin Fischer's book "Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed"...
March 09, 2014
I simply don't have time to moderate scores of messages every day. Whenever I touch...
March 08, 2014
Many people have asked me to listen to and respond to John Piper's comments about...
March 06, 2014
Thoughts about the "Gay Marriage" Debate and Christians' Rights             I have already stated here...
March 02, 2014
Lately I've been thinking about the nature of history. Not "history" as in "what happened...
March 01, 2014
One of the questions I'm asked most often is about God's providence in Arminian theology....
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