Robert Gonzales (Dean and Professor of Biblical Studies at Reformed Baptist Seminary) has posted a very good essay on the Emotivity of God: There Is No Pain, You Are Misreading”: Is God “Comfortably Numb”?.
What I like about Gonzales’ work is that he is exegetically driven. I hope that there will be some good follow-up discussion [...]
I am now reading through Calvin’s Sermons on Acts. Here is an interesting snippet:
Because many people have no regard for God and are in this world like wild animals, without hope of salvation and without godliness, Peter in particular, wishing to bring the Jews to our Lord Jesus Christ, capitalizes on the fact that they [...]
We have Christian “myths” that we live with and do not even know it. One of the most prevalent myths is the idea that our external circumstances are the result of making God happy or mad at us.
We live in on a roller coaster controlled by indwelling sin that takes us down [...]
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Vermigli on Hebrews 2:9 and 14:
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Now my remaining task is to answer your questions about our communion with Christ. I pass over the judgment on that subject by John a’ Lasco, a gentleman equally renowned in letters and endowed with godliness. I will only make clear in a few words what I believe about [...]
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The sermon today at my church was about thorns. It was a particularly moving sermon, one of those sermons where you think the Pastor has a hidden camera that follows you around all week. We opened with the curse of the ground in Genesis 3:18.
?17? Then to Adam He said, ?“Because you [...]
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