Archive for November 2019
Christian Contentment: An Interview with Melissa Kruger
What is the source of Christian contentment? How can a Christian identify discontentment and wage war against it? In her new teaching series, Contentment, Melissa Kruger offers teaching and encouragement…
Read MoreLet Us All Be Hospitable
Hospitality doesn’t come naturally to me. In fact, I have spent the better part of my adult life trying to love it. But while I don’t love it, I know…
Read MoreHow to Read the Pastoral Epistles Theologically
The letters that Paul wrote to Timothy and Titus have been known as the Pastoral Epistles (PE) since at least the early eighteenth century. As helpful as this label is,…
Read MoreTen Baptists Everyone Should Know: Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was born August 9, 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts. His father, Adoniram Judson, Sr., was a Congregationalist minister in New England. The younger Judson was a precocious child…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage Thomas Boston’s The Crook in the Lot
Out of all Thomas Boston’s practical works, his short Crook in the Lot: The Sovereignty and Wisdom of God in the Afflictions of Men Displayed has had the most success…
Read MorePastoral Theology and the Administration of Baptism
Those of us who teach Christian theology are familiar with the well-worn accusation that theological reflection is impractical, divisive, and deadening when it comes to the spiritual vigor and vitality…
Read MoreLet’s Get Old School: Princeton
Who were some of the key figure-heads of Old Princeton and why are their contributions worth retrieving for contemporary evangelicalism? Were Princetonians like Charles Hodge and B. B. Warfield rationalists…
Read MoreOld Princeton: New Podcast with Gary Steward, Paul Helseth, and Michael Plato
Who were some of the key figure-heads of Old Princeton and why are their contributions worth retrieving for contemporary evangelicalism? Were Princetonians like Charles Hodge and B. B. Warfield rationalists…
Read MoreHow to Read Mark Theologically
It goes without saying that all too few people acknowledge Jesus Christ’s lordship today, and all too many of those who do acknowledge him do so haltingly and inconsistently. This…
Read MoreBavinck’s Cultural Moment
Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) was the chief theologian of the Dutch movement known as neo-Calvinism—a movement toward confessional orthodox Christianity in a rapidly changing, modern world. In the post-Enlightenment era of…
Read MoreWhy Pastors Should Engage Anselm of Canterbury
I was reminded quite recently how much I don’t know. Granted, it doesn’t take a lot to unveil my ignorance, but as I reflected on this it dawned on me…
Read MoreThe Warmest Doctrine at Dort: The Preservation and Perseverance of the Saints
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on Dort at 400. The following is an excerpt from Daniel R. Hyde’s article, “The Warmest Doctrine at Dort: The Preservation and Perseverance of the…
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