Archive for August 2015
Sunday’s Sermon: Gift, the Noahic Covenant, and the Ethics of Justification (Schreiner, Barrett, Zaspel)
Three of Credo Magazine’s main contributors include Thomas Schreiner, Fred Zaspel, and Matthew Barrett. Each of them are professors, but they are also pastors. So each Monday morning we will be highlighting their “Sunday’s Sermon” on the blog to provide you with encouragement throughout the week and an opportunity to study God’s Word.
Read MoreCredo’s Cache
Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. The Sound of Silence: By Kevin DeYoung – DeYoung says: “This is almost an absolute rule: if you look around your congregation and people are barely singing, there is something wrong…
Read MoreWives Be Gracious to Your Husbands (Jessalyn Hutto)
“Thus the very hour of disillusionment with my brother becomes incomparably salutary, because it so thoroughly teaches me that neither of us can ever live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and Deed which really binds us together—the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ. When the morning mists of…
Read MoreThe Gospel and Porn (Fred Zaspel)
In these past weeks the emphasis in our seminary chapel has been on sexual purity. In particular, the focus has been on overcoming pornography. We all know now that the internet has moved porn to the number one counseling issue in churches today, and we would be very naive to think that seminary students or…
Read MoreRecovering Eden: An Interview with Zack Eswine (Matt Claridge)
In the church traditions I grew up in, a popular favorite was the “Gospel Song” Victory in Jesus. It still makes me cringe. The theology of the song is actually not terribly bad; it’s even a bit Calvinistic–“he sought me and bo’t me with his redeeming blood; He loved me ere I knew Him, and…
Read MoreA Gospel Problem: Thoughts on the Planned Parenthood Scandal (Fred G. Zaspel)
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times: We should never be surprised when the world behaves like the world. We can expect what the Bible calls “the world” – society in sin, without Christ, and in rebellion against God’s law – to behave accordingly. That’s old news. We know that. But…
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