Archive for February 2023
Christian Theology with Matthew Barrett
The For the Church Institute recently released a free course by Matthew Barrett, editor-in-chief of Credo Magazine and host of the Credo Podcast. Over the next year, FTC Institute will release lectures within this course. The first two units are already live! Unit 1 asks the question, What is Theology?, while Unit 2 contemplates The Doctrine of…
Read MoreThe Devotional Payoff of (Regularly) Reading Creeds
Thanks to Crossway’s publication of Jonathan Gibson’s excellent resource, Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship, I have been immersed in the creeds on a daily basis. Each morning, as a part of the daily liturgy in this resource, readers privately confess their belief in the Christian God by reading either the Apostle’s…
Read MoreWhat Is Required to See God?
The great Christian hope is communion with God as we experience it in both this life and the next. As we traverse this pilgrim life, believers are often profoundly aware of the distance between us and God’s direct presence. In the words of Westminster Shorter Catechism 19, “All mankind by their fall lost communion with…
Read MoreThe Light of Nature
The Westminster Confession (1647) begins with the statement “Although the light of Nature, and the works of Creation and Providence do so farre manifest the Goodnesse, Wisdome, and Power of God, as to leave men unexcusable yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and of his Will, which is necessary unto…
Read MoreNames and Honor: Thoughts on Performance and Sins of Speech
This past fall, I spent seven weeks with members of my local church thinking through the role virtues play in the Christian life. My approach was from the imagery of a tree, a rich biblical metaphor for the Christian. Each week, we considered a root, ring, and reward of the tree. The roots signify the…
Read MoreNew Credo Podcast! How to be a Joyful Calvinist
Who was one of the great influences on today’s leading theologians and university presidents? James Montgomery Boice. Educated at Harvard University and Princeton Seminary, the late James Montgomery Boice was raised up for a lifetime of preaching at Tenth Presbyterian Church. Yet he also found himself at the epicenter of theological debate. He was committed to…
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