Archive for September 2019
Eavesdrop on a Theological Conversation: Recent Episodes of the Credo Podcast
Are you looking to deepen your understanding of theology? In the last several episodes of the Credo Podcast, a range of doctrinal issues have been covered, including reformation theology, marxism and Christianity, theology and leadership, inspiration, divine immutability, and biblical theology. In each episode, Matthew Barrett talks with fellow theologians about the most important doctrines…
Read MoreTen Baptists Everyone Should Know: William Kiffin
William Kiffin (c. 1616-1701) is widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of English Particular Baptists. His remarkable life nearly spanned almost the entirety of the formative seventeenth century and he was the only man to sign both the First London Confession of Faith of 1644 and the Second London Confession of Faith of 1689. Orphaned as a child…
Read MoreThe Old Testament Law and Women
As I write these words, a common refrain permeates the news outlets, social media, and dinner tables across America. It’s a chorus so collective that we hardly seem to notice it, but scan the headlines on election news, healthcare concerns, or the border crisis and you’ll discover a single theme rumbling beneath the noise: our…
Read MoreLovers of God and Lovers of Self
“God just wants you to be happy.” Sara listened intently as the ministry leader spoke. She’d waited weeks for this one-on-one meeting, and she wanted to absorb every word. She was quiet for a moment as she thought about how to apply the leader’s words to her months-long battle with discouragement. “I believe God wants…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: Rethinking Biblical Theology
Why is biblical theology essential to a proper understanding of systematic theology? How does inspiration and divine authorial intent safeguard the unity of the Bible? Should we interpret the Old Testament like Jesus and the writers of the New Testament? How do we trace the story of the Bible with an eye to an inaugurated…
Read MoreRethinking Biblical Theology
Why is biblical theology essential to a proper understanding of systematic theology? How does inspiration and divine authorial intent safeguard the unity of the Bible? Should we interpret the Old Testament like Jesus and the writers of the New Testament? How do we trace the story of the Bible with an eye to an inaugurated…
Read MoreGlorify God in Your Habits: How Spiritual Disciplines Produce Real Joy
Perhaps you’re not a big fan of the term “spiritual disciplines.” If so, I’m with you, and we’re in good company. “Means of grace,” according to D. A. Carson, is “a lovely expression less susceptible to misinterpretation than spiritual disciplines,” (“Spiritual Disciplines,” in Themelios, 36, no. 3 [November 2011]). I find the term “means of…
Read MoreThe Missing Link
Who among us can claim to have what it takes for ministry in these tumultuous times? Time-honored traditions have been discarded in the church, and that’s not all bad. We don’t do ministry out of human custom, after all, but out of divine truth revealed in the living and abiding Word of God. Yet foundational…
Read MoreWrestling with Dort
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on Dort at 400. The following is an excerpt from Matthew Barrett’s column, On First Principles: Wrestling with Dort. Matthew Barrett is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, as well as the founder and executive editor of Credo Magazine. He is the author of several books, including None Greater: The…
Read MoreA Look Inside the New Issue of Credo Magazine
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here: Dort at 400. Is the sinner saved by grace alone? Just how sovereign is God’s grace? Few questions have generated fierce debate in the history of Christianity like this one. Four hundred years ago, a group of Arminians remonstrated against the Reformed understanding of God’s grace. In response,…
Read MoreThe New Issue of Credo Magazine: Dort at 400
The new issue of Credo Magazine is now here: Dort at 400. Is the sinner saved by grace alone? Just how sovereign is God’s grace? Few questions have generated fierce debate in the history of Christianity like this one. Four hundred years ago, a group of Arminians remonstrated against the Reformed understanding of God’s grace. In…
Read MoreA Field Like No Other
The brief silence before the clanging of forks on plates at family gatherings is when the vote is cast for the most spiritual among the group. Some families default to the father figure, or if there is a pastor in the room, there is no question. In other gatherings, the cousin who went to seminary…
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