Archive for July 2019
Does regeneration precede faith?
Does regeneration precede faith? What does it mean to be a slave to sin? How does Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus help us understand regeneration as a monergistic act of God?…
Read MoreNew Credo Video with Matthew Barrett: Does regeneration precede faith?
Does regeneration precede faith? What does being a slave to sin mean? How does Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus help us understand regeneration? How does the birth metaphor help us understand…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage Basil of Caesarea
Division in the Church, widespread doctrinal confusion and ignorance, a sometimes hostile government, a sexually permissive culture, scores of Christians marginally committed to the Gospel, the suffering of the poor—these…
Read MoreTheology and Corporate Worship
What hath theology to do with worship?” Being tasked to answer such a question is, for me, a bit like offering a dog a mountain of bones. Not a bone.…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage Thomas Aquinas
Thomas’ early life was one of riches to rags. Born to nobility in southern Italy, he needed to escape to Paris and be trained as a Dominican, at the still…
Read MoreDoctrine for Life: Recent Episodes from the Credo Video Series
In the last several episodes of the Credo Video series, a range of topics have been covered, including J. C. Ryle, Jesus and the Psalms, justification in the Old Testament,…
Read MoreI AM and the Burning Bush
You are familiar with the setting, of course. Having left Egypt forty years before, while tending the sheep of his father-in-law, Moses comes to Mount Horeb and sees “this strange…
Read MoreWhy I Left Marxism for the Resurrected Christ
What drew Michael Haykin toward an intellectual neo-marxism? Why did the resurrection of Christ convince Haykin to leave neo-marxism and eastern religions for the Christian gospel? What persuaded Haykin to become…
Read MoreWhy I Left Marxism for the Resurrected Christ: New Credo Podcast with Michael Haykin
What drew Michael Haykin toward an intellectual neo-marxism? Why did the resurrection of Christ convince Haykin to leave neo-marxism and eastern religions for the Christian gospel? What persuaded Haykin to become…
Read MoreA Love for God Leads to Joy in His Church: How Theology Affects Church Membership
As Dante approaches the second sphere of heaven in the Paradiso, the poet is greeted by thousands of glorified saints, sparkling with joy so real and palpable that it manifests…
Read MoreThe Pastoral Benefit of Baxter and Burroughs
We scarcely need to add to the existing praise for the two puritan pastors before us today — Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646) and Richard Baxter (1615-1691). We can allow a few…
Read MoreThe Future: How Does God Know It?
One aspect of God’s omniscience is his knowledge of the future. Open Theists have denied this, of course, but the question is not really a difficult one. Over and again…
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