Archive for March 2019
Why Pastors Should Engage Augustine of Hippo
The fires of war burned across the western Roman Empire in the early 400’s: in Gaul, then Iberia, Rome itself, and then in northwest Africa. Vandal hordes advanced, establishing a new Arian kingdom by violence, bringing dissolution to a decaying Roman order. Even places that had peace had an impending sense of upheaval. In Hippo…
Read MoreOn Saying Goodbye
Who likes saying goodbye? Nobody. The hardest goodbyes are the permanent earthly ones. Holidays are hard, especially for those who have recently grieved the loss of a loved one. As a pastor, I often hear about “the first year” of grief. The first Thanksgiving and the first Christmas provide an unwelcome reminder of who isn’t…
Read MoreThe Church’s Duty Requires It: Why Church Members Must Be Theologians
Church members should be theologians. Of course, not all church members have to get degrees, write books, or lecture on the hypostatic union. But theology shouldn’t be confined to the academy either. God’s Word creates the church and the church protects and promotes God’s Word. So, in a way, theology is what breathes life into…
Read MoreWhy must God be the Perfect Being?
Why must God be the perfect being? Is God is someone than whom none greater can be conceived? How does God’s perfection set the trajectory for all other attributes in God? How does God’s perfection necessitate his infinitude? In this new Credo video, Matthew Barrett discusses what perfect-making attributes must follow if Anselm is right…
Read MoreWhy must God be the Perfect Being?
Why must God be the perfect being? Is God is someone than whom none greater can be conceived? How does God’s perfection set the trajectory for all other attributes in God? How does God’s perfection necessitate his infinitude? In this new Credo video, Matthew Barrett discusses what perfect-making attributes must follow if Anselm is right…
Read MoreRevelation and Response: An Interview with Samuel Parkison on Leading Corporate Worship Through Song
What does a healthy local church music leader look like? How should we think biblically, theologically, and practically about the scope of Christian worship, particularly the Sunday morning worship gathering? In his new book, Revelation and Response: The Why and How of Leading Corporate Worship through Song, Samuel Parkison offers a worshipful and comprehensive meditation on corporate…
Read MoreHave you read one of the greatest works on justification in church history? Here’s your chance
John Calvin’s articulation of justification by faith is set forth in his Institutes On the Christian Religion and may be one of the most important treatments of this central doctrine in the history of the church. Nate Pickowicz has republished Calvin’s teaching on justification in Justification by Faith to ensure that it is both not forgotten and accessible…
Read MoreThe Apologetic of Being Mom: Why Mothers Must Be Theologians
Motherhood is apologetics. It’s hard to think of a role in life that requires a more constant stream of explanations for why we believe what we believe about God and how he relates to everything: family, snack time, naps, friendships, sleepovers, food, medicine, chores, schooling, and whatever else is else under the sun. Because motherhood…
Read MoreInvitation to Biblical Hebrew Syntax: A Review of Fuller and Choi’s Intermediate Grammar
Russell Fuller and Kyoungwon Choi have done a massive service to those seeking mastery in Biblical Hebrew (BH) with their textbook, Invitation to Biblical Hebrew Syntax: An Intermediate Grammar. Faithfully laboring in all three complementary sections of the text is sure to challenge and progress students of the Hebrew Bible. Fuller and Choi have built…
Read MoreNone Greater: Matthew Barrett on the Undomesticated Attributes of God (Part 1)
Why was Matthew Barrett surprised by the God of Augustine, Anselm, and Calvin? Have we domesticated God, so that he looks a lot more like the creature than the Creator? If we understand God as the perfect being, what perfect-making attributes must be true of God? In this new episode of the Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett…
Read MoreNone Greater: Matthew Barrett on the Undomesticated Attributes of God (Part 1)
Why was Matthew Barrett surprised by the God of Augustine, Anselm, and Calvin? Have we domesticated God, so that he looks a lot more like the creature than the Creator? If we understand God as the perfect being, what perfect-making attributes must be true of God? In this episode of the Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett is…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage Athanasius
It all started on a beach. For most men of God, that probably wasn’t the place where their pastoral vocation began. Yet for one small, brown-skinned boy in Roman Egypt, a playful moment on the beach led to a long and fruitful pastoral ministry. Perhaps, as a fellow pastor, you will identify with humble beginnings…
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