Archive for December 2018
A Purifier of Priests: The Fulfillment of Malachi’s Messenger in the Work of Christ
While the book of Malachi is unique, rich, and rewarding, it’s promises of future purification can be difficult to square with the coming of Christ. Each of the Gospels reference the coming of John the Baptist and Jesus as the fulfillment of Malachi’s promises, yet the restoration of the sons of Levi (3:3), and the…
Read MorePilgrims on the Road to the Classical View of God: Figures from the Early and Medieval Church on the Attributes of God
The new issue of Credo Magazine has released: The Immutability of God. The following is an excerpt from Jordan Barrett’s column, Pilgrims on the Road to the Classical View of God: Figures from the Early and Medieval Church on the Attributes of God. Jordan P. Barrett is adjunct professor of Moody Bible Institute and author of Divine Simplicity:…
Read MoreBook Review: Jesus and the Feminists
In Jesus and the Feminists, Margaret Köstenberger delivers an illuminating survey of feminist interpretation of Jesus’ interactions with women in the Gospels. She provides a survey and analysis of several feminist interpretations ranging from radical feminism to egalitarianism before presenting a non-feminist view of Jesus and his interactions with women. As a complementarian female thinker,…
Read MoreWhy God Hides: New Podcast Episode with Katherine Sonderegger
In what sense is God mystery? How is his transcendence and immanence displayed when he hides? Are there negative consequences to reading Christology back into the doctrine of God? How does God’s power, simplicity, and aseity relate to his incomprehensibility? Why is maintaining the distinction between the Creator and creature of such importance, particularly in framing…
Read MoreWhy God Hides
In what sense is God mystery? How is his transcendence and immanence displayed when he hides? Are there negative consequences to reading Christology back into the doctrine of God? How does God’s power, simplicity, and aseity relate to his incomprehensibility? Why is maintaining the distinction between the Creator and creature of such importance, particularly in framing…
Read MoreImmutability and Eternal Generation: The Son’s Generation as a Spiritual, Internal, and Eternal Act
Last week, the new issue of Credo Magazine released: The Immutability of God. The following is an excerpt from Josh Malone’s article, Immutability and Eternal Generation: The Son’s Generation as a Spiritual, Internal, and Eternal Act. Josh Malone (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is Associate Professor of Theological Studies at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Dr. Malone has written two…
Read MoreThe Impassible Love of God
What does it mean to say, “God is love,” as John does in 1 John 4:16? Most of us recognize that it does not mean God approves of everything or will never punish sin. We’d have to throw out half of both Testaments to think that. So what does it mean that God is love?…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine
The new issue of Credo Magazine has arrived: The Immutability of God. Does God change? Everything hinges on the answer to that question. If he does change, he is not the eternal, self-sufficient, simple, and infinite Lord scripture says he is time and time again. If he is not immutable, then our salvation is uncertain as well,…
Read MoreThe New Issue of Credo Magazine Has Arrived: The Immutability of God
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here: The Immutability of God. Does God change? Everything hinges on the answer to that question. If he does change, he is not the eternal, self-sufficient, simple, and infinite Lord scripture says he is time and time again. If he is not immutable, then our salvation is uncertain as…
Read MoreWe Have Such a High Priest
Twentieth century theologian John Murray maintained that one cannot fully understand Jesus’ work as a priest without understanding how his priesthood fulfills the Old Testament sacrificial system. Ignoring the whole-Bible categories of what a priest is and does fails to think God’s thoughts after Him. As a result, we will not fully understand the work…
Read MoreHelp for Our Prayer Lives
I suspect that most Christians find it difficult to pray. It won’t surprise me to hear that many Christians have shallow prayer lives. Personally, I find prayer hard. Bible reading by comparison is for me far easier. Being constant in prayer requires discipline, focus and no small measure of planning. And even then its not…
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