Archive for November 2019
How to Read James Theologically
Why should anyone care about the little letter of James? Didn’t Martin Luther call it “a right strawy epistle” and think that it didn’t “preach Christ” enough? Answers come readily. …
Read MoreTen Baptists Everyone Should Know: Andrew Fuller
Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) was born on February 6, 1754 in the village of Wicken in Cambridgeshire, England. He was born into a family of Baptists at a time when the…
Read MoreDort: Reformational Rebar for Revival
Next time you see a construction site, or a pile of rubble and mangled rebar—those small cylinders of reinforcing steel—think of Calvinism. Rebar and the reformed doctrines of soteriology have…
Read MoreWomen Every Christian Should Know: Phillis Wheatley
Standing on an auction block in 1761, a seven-year-old African girl waited, gawked at by passersby and prospective buyers. Having just arrived in Boston Harbor after surviving the treacherous Middle…
Read MoreShould the church transform the culture? New Credo Podcast with David VanDrunen
In the past, Reformed thinkers taught that God has two kingdoms. What are these two kingdoms and how does God exercise his lordship in both differently? What is the difference…
Read MoreShould the church transform the culture?
In the past, Reformed thinkers taught that God has two kingdoms. What are these two kingdoms and how does God exercise his lordship in both differently? What is the difference…
Read MoreHow to Read Micah Theologically
There is a growing movement in evangelical Christianity to read the Scriptures theologically. The umbrella term used to describe this sort of reading is, unsurprisingly, “theological interpretation of Scripture,” “TIS”…
Read MoreTen Baptists Everyone Should Know: John Gill
When John Gill (1697-1771) died he was widely recognized as the greatest Baptist theologian of the eighteenth century. While pastoring the same congregation for nearly fifty-two years, Gill more than…
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