Archive for September, 2006
Images of the Savior (12– His Healing of the Man with an Unclean Spirit)
Thursday, September 21st, 2006Mark 1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him. Before our Savior began his public ministry, during his probation in the wilderness, he utterly overcame […]
Images of the Savior (From the Book of Esther)
Friday, September 15th, 2006Esther 6:13 If Mordecai is of the seed of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him but shall surely fall before him. I have long desired to facilitate the spread of a more fundamentally Christian reading of the Old Testament. As Jesus himself […]
Book Review: Paul: An Outline of His Theology, by Herman Ridderbos
Sunday, September 10th, 2006Synopsis: Paul: An Outline of His Theology is perhaps the most comprehensive evangelical introduction to the theology of the Pauline epistles available today. Herman Ridderbos is an outstanding and meticulous scholar who fairly engages conflicting viewpoints, and consistently appeals to the careful exegesis of scriptures as the final authority in any dispute. But his primary […]
The Dual Nature of Christian Warfare
Friday, September 8th, 2006In my recent moments of spare time, I have been reading Paul: An Outline of His Theology, by Herman Ridderbos. This has been a tremendously helpful and outstandingly thorough introduction to the theology of the Pauline epistles. For the purpose of whetting the potential reader’s appetite, I am posting a brief, yet particularly useful sample […]
Were the Anabaptists Prototypical Dispensationalists?
Monday, September 4th, 2006While it would admittedly be improper to speak of the Anabaptists as Dispensationalists in the fullest sense of the term, it is nevertheless possible that, in their zeal to fabricate arguments against the practice of infant baptism, they arrived at conclusions concerning the covenants of God which have become the foundational premises undergirding the later […]