Sola Scriptura Guards Us from Numerous Dangers
At the heart of Sola Scriptura, is the recognition that fallen humans are always looking to replace God’s authority with some other human/creaturely authority
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Paul Anticipates—and Answers—Objections to Election in Romans 9
To say God’s mercy ultimately originates as a response to foreseen faith or mercy is to affirm election does depend on human will and exertion, rather than on God (contrary to v. 16).
What Does the Death of Cultural Christianity Cost?
To lament the decline of cultural Christianity is to lament not simply the loss of a Christian consensus, but the loss of the social capital born of common grace that secular society was borrowing from.
Pastor, How’s Your Bedside Manner?
Like a good doctor, pastors must strive to present difficult truths in a clear, kind, compassionate manner. May we guard against our tendency to allow the tone of our message from hindering the truth from being heard.
Why I Left Ministry (Temporarily) to Learn More about It
During my time at SBTS, I’ve realized that I needed to leave ministry temporarily and give myself to studying the things of God full-time
Study Theology Knowing You’ll Never Plumb the Depths of God
If we ever appear to have exhausted our knowledge of God, we’ve certainly committed idolatry because we’re no longer talking about God.
What Will We Think about Our Rhetoric on the Last Day?
Hyperbole and exaggeration can be effective rhetorical devices, grabbing our attention and constraining us to see what we didn’t see before, but they can also be used for ill and to mislead.
Luther’s Dying Words are True: We are Beggars.
We’re beggars because the words of man will never fill our spiritual appetite. We need food from heaven. We need to hear from God.
4 Reasons Why It’s Important for a Pastor to Know Himself
Until heaven, our motives will never be as pure as they should be. But how can we know if they are carnal unless we first know ourselves?
How Can Pastors Combat Conspiracy Theories in Their Church?
The enemy would love God’s people chasing abstract and far-fetched untruths rather than sharing the good news of the gospel with their neighbors.
What Was the Most Important Lesson I Learned in Seminary?
Oddly enough, the more knowledge I gain, the more rarified intellectual air tends to fill the inner balloon that is my ego. But these words are a deflating pin: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
If Justification Is Once-for-All, Why Do I Need to Keep Repenting?
Praying “Forgive us our debts” isn’t just a duty we have as sinners; it’s a privilege we have as sons.
Your Eschatology Has Consequences
How you live now is correlated with how you believe God is working towards eternity.
Religious Liberty Made Me a Baptist
Religious liberty implies a recognition that individuals make conscientious decisions to participate in group associations that have different requirements and different callings than the rest of society and the state. In my view, these truths lead one inside the walls of a Baptist church.
Five Myths about the Church
The church needs a clear definition of its nature before it determines and actualizes its functions and activities.
Fear Being Liked
Being liked is the currency of our social relationships, seen in everything from the unspoken gravitation toward one person over another at a party to the digitized tokens of attention we exchange on social media.
Pastors Should Have Friends within Their Churches
Isolation and loneliness are common struggles for even the most extroverted pastors, and they remind us that those called to shepherd God’s flock need ministry too.
Do You Have Enough Faith to Be Kind?
When we fail to be kind to brothers and sisters in Christ, we are failing to trust God in some way, perhaps his power to change hearts or the sufficiency of his Word.