Archive for March 2019
What is Impassibility? Defining a forgotten attribute
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here: The Impassibility of God. The following is an excerpt from James Rehinan’s article, What is Impassibility? Defining a forgotten attribute. James Renihan (PhD) is President of IRBS Theological Seminary in Mansfield, TX. He has authored several books including True Love and Edification and Beauty. Impassibility may be defined…
Read MoreDoes God suffer?
Is God passible or impassible? Why is it theologically unsound to say that God suffers in our suffering, difficulty, and pain? If God experiences emotional change, does that throw God’s immutability into question? Can we trust a God who is subject to alteration or loss? In this new Credo video, Matthew Barrett discusses God’s impassibility,…
Read MoreDoes God suffer?
Is God passible or impassible? Why is it theologically unsound to say that God suffers in our suffering, difficulty, and pain? If God experiences emotional change, does that throw God’s immutability into question? Can we trust a God who is subject to alteration or loss? In this new Credo video, Matthew Barrett discusses God’s impassibility,…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine
The new issue of Credo Magazine has arrived: The Impassibility of God. Does he experience emotional change? Is he subject to mood swings like his creatures? And does God suffer like we do? In the history of the church, Christians have answered with an emphatic “No!” Since God is immutable, he must also be impassible. But…
Read MoreThe New Issue of Credo Magazine Is Here: The Impassibility of God
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here: The Impassibility of God. Does he experience emotional change? Is he subject to mood swings like his creatures? And does God suffer like we do? In the history of the church, Christians have answered with an emphatic “No!” Since God is immutable, he must also be impassible.…
Read MoreBookTalks with Matthew Barrett: A Conversation on the Undomesticated Attributes of God
Sword and Trowel Campus Bookstore at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will host the first BookTalks event featuring Dr. Matthew Barrett and his latest book, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God (Baker). Barrett will present an overview of the book and engage in a time of Q&A. There will also be a book signing with Dr.…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage Martyn Lloyd-Jones
When I was a seminary student, John Piper encouraged us not to turn to the Bible with a cold heart. He recommended reading someone who would regularly stir our affections in a short space of time (i.e., 5-7 minutes) before turning to Scripture. I began to “experiment” with many different theologians and I quickly found…
Read MoreThe Importance of Ecclesiology in Church Planting
Church planting is a culture all of its own. Church planters often look different, think different, and act different than the typical pastor we experienced growing up. Further, church plants look different and function differently than the typical church we knew growing up. Around the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries a movement arose called,…
Read MoreThe Spirit of the Age: Why Wives Must Be Theologians
Some wives find the study of theology impractical, if not daunting. Often when we think of theological rigor, we imagine being able to readily define propitiation, teach women through a book in Scripture, answer how God sovereignly elects (and still finds man responsible for his guilt), or explain notoriously obscure chapters in the Bible like…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage J.C. Ryle
Bishop J. C. Ryle died in the Lord on June 10, 1900. His close friend and fellow clergyman, Canon Richard Hobson, preached his funeral sermon. He said the following about the chief pastor of Liverpool, [he] was great through the abounding grace of God. He was great in stature; great in mental power; great in…
Read MoreNone Greater: Matthew Barrett on the Undomesticated Attributes of God (Part 2)
What does it mean for God to be the perfect being? How can we discuss individual attributes of God when God is simple–identical with his attributes and undivided in his essence? What are the consequences for the Christian life if we reject God’s impassibility? How do we interpret scripture when it says God repents? How can…
Read MoreNone Greater: Matthew Barrett on the Undomesticated Attributes of God (Part 2)
What does it mean for God to be the perfect being? How can we discuss individual attributes of God when God is simple–identical with his attributes and undivided in his essence? What are the consequences for the Christian life if we reject God’s impassibility? How do we interpret scripture when it says God repents? How can…
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