Archive for 2012
Andrew Fuller & His Friends
The audio is now available from the 6th Andrew Fuller Conference, “Andrew Fuller & His Friends.” Here is what the conference was all about: It is not every Baptist theologian who has a movement named after him, but Andrew Fuller was so important a theologian that historians of the church actually talk about a perspective…
Read MoreIn Spirit and Truth: Schaeffer, True Spirituality, and the Emergent Church (Bryan Follis)
In the recent issue of Credo Magazine, “Francis Schaeffer at 100,” Bryan Follis has contributed an article titled, “In Spirit and Truth: Schaeffer, True Spirituality, and the Emergent Church.” Bryan Follis is Rector of All Saints Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland and he is the author of Truth With Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer.…
Read MoreMichael Reeves on the Trinity
Below are nine different videos with Michael Reeves on the Trinity. If you have not done so already, go buy his new book, Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith (InterVarsity Press). Also check out the interview Credo Magazine did with Reeves on his new book. Video: #1 The God who is…
Read MoreThe Wiles of Works Righteousness (3/4)
By Matthew Claridge– (For the other parts in this series: Part 1, Part 2) Justification by Faith, Sanctification by Works How we put together justification and sanctification has been a struggle for the church since day one. That much is clear from Galatians. Nevertheless, perhaps it wasn’t until the Reformation that the church became fully…
Read MoreLegalism or Obedience?
By Fred Zaspel– Try to imagine it. You are playing a game of Monopoly, and your opponent throws a ten with the dice. Then he picks up his player marker and begins counting his steps. Immediately you realize he will land on the corner — “Go to Jail!” Well, he doesn’t want to land there,…
Read MoreRyken on the English Bible
Several weeks ago Dr. Leland Ryken gave this excellent lecture at Southern Seminary on the cultural influence of the English Bible.
Read MoreCredo Magazine contributors at ETS
By Matthew Barrett– Tomorrow will be the first day of the annual conference of the Evangelical Theological Society. The conference will be in Milwaukee, WI, and will last from Wednesday to Friday. The theme of this year’s 64th conference is “Caring for Creation.” Plenary speakers include Calvin Beisner, Russell Moore, Richard Bauckham, and Douglas Moo.…
Read MoreNew Study Guide on Warfield now available!
The enthusiastic response to Fred Zaspel’s recent Warfield on the Christian Life: Living in Light of the Gospel has been very encouraging. Several people have remarked that it provides a good series of lessons for Sunday School and Small Group settings, and to facilitate the use of this book for group study Crossway is providing…
Read MoreHarassed But Victorious: Revelation 12:1-17 (Thomas Schreiner)
By Thomas R. Schreiner– We have to be careful about drawing conclusions too quickly and too superficially. Otherwise our solutions to a problem may be incorrect. Perhaps you have counseled a couple and thought you knew what was going on in their lives, but as time passed you realized that you didn’t understand what…
Read MoreThe Wiles of Works Righteousness (2/4)
By Matthew Claridge– (For the other parts in this series: Part 1) Justification by Good intentions The “Judaizers” are not the only camp Paul takes issue with in Galatians. He also takes Peter, the chief apostle, to task (2.11ff). On the surface, Peter’s hypocrisy and compromise of the gospel is straightforward. As soon as “men…
Read MorePreaching Jesus all the Time
By Fred Zaspel– It is an encouraging sign when young ministers and ministerial students ask how to preach Christ more consistently while remaining faithful to the text at hand. It’s a question that we all have faced, and doubtless few have it all figured out. I’m sure I don’t, but I love the discussion. We…
Read MorePlantinga’s Point
By Paul Helm— In a little-discussed paper of Alvin Plantinga’s, ‘Divine Knowledge,’ (in Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, edited by C. Stephen Evans and Merold Westphal (Eerdmans, 1993), he discusses and defends the thesis that it is no objection to accepting the truth of God knows that p that We do not know how God…
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