Resident Theologian
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The unspoken Name
Kendall Soulen on the New Testament’s conspicuous silence surrounding, yet ubiquitous allusions to, the holy Name of Israel’s God.
No true cessationist
A reflection on signs and wonders in the present and why it is that I’ve yet to find a real-life, flesh-and-blood cessationist willing to defend the doctrine.
Trusting the Bible
I have a dear friend I’ve known most of my life who came to me recently with a question. The friend in question is a lifelong Christian; he loves Jesus, attends church, is a faithful person. He doesn’t struggle with “doubt” per se. He struggles instead with the Bible.
Inegalitarian Acts
For various reasons I’ve been reading and re-reading Acts a lot this year. One reason is that I’m co-leading a Sunday School class through the book, slowly, chapter by chapter. This past Sunday I had Acts 15: the climactic moment in the story, the hinge of the great gentile missions of the Jewish churches in Jerusalem and Antioch.
Creatura verbi divini
On the Mere Fi podcast earlier this week, both Derek and Alastair pressed me on the question of whether the church is “the creature of God’s Word.” The theological worry here is that if one affirms, with catholic tradition, that the church creates the canon, then the proper order between the two has been inverted, since the people of God is the creatura verbi divini, not the other way around. How, after all, could it be otherwise?