Here are some of my answers to questions from the last week or so on Curious Cat.

Do you think Jesus cleansed the temple twice? [Answer]

What role does logic play in developing theology? … [Answer] [Follow-up]

When is it a good time to update/abandon/move on from a theological term because it...

I have a new video following on from my earlier video on The Challenges of Gender in the 21st Century. Within it, I offer some prefatory remarks on the subject of masculinity.

I know it may seem strange for me to choose our ministry for this month’s Member Spotlight, but as I scrolled through my inbox the other day, I was struck with a profound realization . . . Over the past decade my boss, Eric Hovind, has been working hard, not just establishing his own...

“Just because a sermon has points, doesn’t mean it’s got a point.

One of the best preaching books I’ve read in the last decade is Dennis Prutow’s So Pastor, What’s Your Point? If someone like Tim Keller or Don Carson had written it, it would be a...

Have you ever been convicted of a cyber misdemeanor and sentenced to Facebook Jail? I’ve never been jailed by Facebook – at least not yet. But they deleted one of my Islam related news posts once. As I recall the article was all over Facebook, so I was miffed that mine was removed. My...

Also available as MP3: Flee Youthful Lusts – 2 Timothy 2:22-24

Summary:

We know the “youthful lusts” Paul told Timothy to “flee” must include fornication, for he told the Corinthians to flee this as well (ICor.6:18), and there aren’t many things Paul says to...

In my post, “Do Christians Have to Care About Everything?,” I referred to the Bible as being “justice-obsessed.”

A commenter challenged that description and asked that I give a “Scripture-driven argument” for Christians combating social injustices.

As I...

The Messiah sat in a boat for his humble pulpit. The little fishing vessel must have moved gently on the water. Jesus, our Lord, looked out across the fresh-water beach at a growing congregation. And what he saw then is what he sees today: believers and those who would believe burdened by the...

Some years ago, I received an email from my much younger female boss, announcing with great enthusiasm she would be meeting with each of us individually to “mentor us in our roles at work as well as disciple us in the Lord.”

Humph. I was a Christian nurse before she was born. Did she not...

Welcome to the 117th episode of Equipping You in Grace. On today’s episode, Dave Jenkins talks about Sola Scriptura: Returning to the Fount of the Word.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• What Sola Scriptura is.
• The inspiration, inerrancy, sufficiency, and authority of Scripture.
• How...

Colonial religion north of the border was no more decent and orderly than it was in the U.S. of A. (though hats off to the Roman Catholics for allowing Presbyterians to use their facility):

For a time after the fall of Montreal to the British in 1760, the Presbyterians were content to worship with...

One of Craig Parker’s regular prayers is for God to bring people to support Southern Seminary.

“When you are working in development in a faith-based organization, you are always looking for people who will have a passion for your mission,” said Parker, Southern Seminary’s...

Attending my elderly neighbor’s funeral yesterday, the Lord impressed upon me again something I have been thinking about lately. As others have noted, funerals are really for the living, not the dead.

Certainly funerals, by their very nature, remember the dead. Yet the purpose of a Christian...

We haven’t had a Hemmingsen post in a while, and I know how it has made you pine. Fret not; I’m here for you.

In their discussion of the virtues, the magisterial Reformers followed the classical tradition in considering religion to fall under the category of, or to be a part of, justice,...

 

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Those were the last words Jesus spoke before he was taken up into heaven, a promise of power that was fulfilled ten...

Like the time of the Reformation five-hundred years ago this month, the need for reform today is not outside, but inside the church.

In our culture, the sin destroying souls has attached itself to the very core of individual personhood which is sexuality. From the beginning God made us male and...

Theme:

The 20th Century will be likely be remembered as the Century of ecclesiastical ecumenism. The 21st Century is shaping up to follow suit–not simply because of a widespread desire for co-belligerency, but on account of a doctrinal reductionism that seeks to dilute Christianity down to the most...

The conversation between myself and John Meade continues.  He offered an initial critique of chapter 7 of Canon Revisited, to which I responded.  And now he has respondedto my response. (I know, the back-and-forth is hard to keep up with!).

I appreciate Meade’s interaction with my...

Here's the audio from Wednesday's lecture -- "Introduction to Apologetics -- The Proclamation-Defense Model" (Part 4)

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This is from Scientific American. (H/T William)

Excerpt:

More than 400 years ago Renaissance scientist Nicolaus Copernicus reduced us to near nothingness by showing that our planet is not the center of the solar system. With...

Abandon the Reformation, abandon the gospel – Matthew Barrett

500 years later, does Reformation theology still matter? Matthew Barrett helps us see that the Gospel was the center of the Reformation and therefore the Reformation still matters tremendously.

Choose What You’re Impressed With...

Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture, by David Murray, is a breath of fresh air. For me, reading it was a refresher course but from a different side of burnout. Five years ago, I received much of the counsel contained in the book from the author himself. David was one of several...

The following paragraph is from a famous letter of Martin Luther to Phillip Melanchthon.  I’ve posted it on this blog before, but it’s worth doing again.  This letter shows two things: 1) Luther well understood Rome’s unbiblical doctrines [note the...

It’s very tempting for Christians to take the moral high ground as the evils of Hollywood’s god, Harvey Weinstein, are brutally exposed and rightly denounced.

Even film-makers, actors, and actresses who have made millions of dollars portraying women as men’s sex-objects are now...

Here is a biblical philosophy by which we should live: “Jesus was despised and rejected by men” (see Isa. 53:3). That’s the bottom line. If we live for Him, we too will be despised and rejected by men. Anything on top of that is a bonus. When He fed multitudes and healed the sick,...

Some one once said George...