I received this email tonight, and thought that it was too excellent to not respond to and then repost here. Hope it's helpful: 1. It is true that some people, through winsomeness and tactics, are more effective at evangelism than others.2. It [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Galatians 3:1-6 There is a foundation and a fuel of the gospel. When we come to Reformed theology, depending on where we’re coming from, we might tend to see the foundation very well. The foundation is what we typically mean by the “doctrines... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
INTROAll four of these passages (Genesis 6:17-22, 8:20-22, 9:1-7, 9:8-17 ) that we are going to be picking through today make of the Noahic covenant. The first passage referring to pre-flood, and then the last three referring to post. Now [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
GENESIS 1:26-27 A handful of premises shape the beginning of biblical ethics: 1) Ethics begins with God’s revealed character. 2) God’s revelation begins in the initial creation and covenant. 3) All human beings are bound in and by this... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Lecture 12 of 12 in Covenant Theology John 5:19-29 There is a real objectivity of the covenant that both extreme strands of the Reformation have obscured. By a collectivizing, horizontalizing tendency, the Presbyterian-Reformed tradition has... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Lecture 11 of 12 in Covenant Theology Amos 9:9-12 What does a covenant theologian think about Israel today? The answer is we think exactly what the Bible says. God’s promises to Israel have not failed and will not fail. The full answer is a... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit o [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Lecture 9 of 12 in Covenant Theology Romans 5:12-21 If Dispensationalism is one modern extreme that fractures the biblical drama, a new school known as the Federal Vision (FV) flies to the other. It accuses the modern Presbyterian and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Lecture 8 of 12 in Covenant Theology Romans 9:6-8 In everything in life, there is the way that God sees things and there is the way that man sees things. This profound difference is not simply a difference when the subject is covenant theology and... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]