Archive for January 2021
Is God Selfish to be Jealous for His Own Glory?
If a man were to seek his own glory, then we would label him selfish or arrogant, so how can God avoid this accusation when he seeks his own glory? If we should not promote our strengths, then should God avoid doing the same? How could an action be selfish for one person but selfless…
Read MoreNew Credo Video with Erik Thoennes: Is God Selfish to be Jealous for His Own Glory?
If a man were to seek his own glory, then we would label him selfish or arrogant, so how can God avoid this accusation when he seeks his own glory? If we should not promote our strengths, then should God avoid doing the same? How could an action be selfish for one person but selfless…
Read MoreDoctrinally Dressed Up but No Way to Get There
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the eternal generation of the Son. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles by Jeriah D. Shank. Shank is the Pastor of Slater Baptist Church, in Slater, IA. He is a PhD student at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and writes regularly at…
Read MoreAn Invitation to the Heidelberg Catechism: Part Two
Let’s focus on the Heidelberg Catechism’s two opening programmatic questions and answers, Q&A 1 introduces the theme of the Catechism: Living and Dying in Comfort. Sometimes preachers come up with more alliterated, memorable outlines such as Guilt, Grace, and Gratitude; or Sin, Salvation, and Service. This “threefold knowledge” as one commentator called it, follows the…
Read MoreThe Radiance of the Father: The Nicene Creed and the Incarnation
The new issue of Credo Magazine focuses on the eternal generation of the Son. The following is an excerpt from one of the issue’s featured articles by Madison N. Pierce. Pierce is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and co-editor of Muted Voices of the New Testament (with Katherine M. Hockey…
Read MoreAn Invitation to the Heidelberg Catechism: Part One
Hey fellow sinners! How do you know you are SAVED? Why do you believe what you SAY you believe? Tragically many Christians… do not have a clue as to WHY they believe it from the Holy Scriptures…. If you will study this inspiring little volume in one hand with your Bible in the other, you…
Read MoreWilliam Perkins and the Priority of Scripture
William Perkins’s convictions on the ministry of God’s word are best known through his preaching manual, The Arte of Prophecying, which became a standard textbook on the subject. The volume articulated a thoroughly Protestant understanding of the nature and authority of Scripture and rooted itself in a thoroughly Reformed hermeneutic. The book also featured a…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast: How Then Shall We Read?
What kind of book is the Bible? If, as some suppose, the Bible is simply the product of human ingenuity, then we must read it like we read any other book. The meaning of any particular passage is limited strictly to the intention of the human author who wrote it. Questions pertaining to historical context,…
Read MoreHow then shall we read? Hermeneutics, Typology, and Trinity
What kind of book is the Bible? If, as some suppose, the Bible is simply the product of human ingenuity, then we must read it like we read any other book. The meaning of any particular passage is limited strictly to the intention of the human author who wrote it. Questions pertaining to historical context,…
Read MoreWisdom Incarnate: A Theological Reflection on Christmas from Proverbs 8
From the most straight-forward perspective, Proverbs doesn’t have much to do with Christmas. But certain central doctrines in Christianity—“common places” as theologians call them—serve as crossroads for all the teachings of Scripture. The doctrine of the incarnation—the fact that God became man in Jesus Christ, which we celebrate at Christmas—is one of these common places.…
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