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Among the many trees in the Garden of Eden, Scripture tells us, stood two trees of great significance: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. This pair of posts is an attempt to understand the nature, effects, and relationship of these two trees. Specifically, we will explore whether...
The post The Two Trees, Part 1: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary.
* Note this is a two-part series. The first part details my theological reservations about the book. The second details some of the insightful elements a discerning reader may nevertheless gain from the book. C.S. Lewis was a master of imagination. Most Christians first experience Lewis with either his apologetic work (Mere Christianity) or his...
The post The Great Divorce: Allegories Reveal Theology appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary.
David Platt gave a talk yesterday at the T4G conference that was an excellent challenge for all Christians to be more committed to pursuing disciples of Christ among all nations. He especially urged believers to do more to see the gospel go to unreached areas/peoples. It was a biblical, stirring challenge, and one to which...
The post Church Planting: The Missing Ingredient in Platt’s Address to T4G appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary.
The fact that all truth is interconnected and sourced in the Triune God means that God in Christ may be rightly connected to every datum of truth in the whole universe. Many argue that faithful preaching, in fact, will make such a connection in every sermon: the faithful preacher will explicitly identify, in every pericope of Scripture,...
The post “Christ in All the Scriptures”? appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary.
Writing after World War I, the British War and Air secretary Winston Churchill avouched his support for Zionism, a movement that afforded in his view a welcome counterpoise to the menace of communism: “Some people like the Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are beyond all...
The post A Review of A Short History of Christian Zionism by Donald M. Lewis appeared first on Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary.
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I recently taught a two-hour seminar on the conscience for North Hills Church in Taylors, SC (March 4, 2022). I survey the book I coauthored with J. D. Crowley and take Q&A along the way:
The book:
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“Why don’t we sing less and get on with the good stuff?” “Why are we singing so many new songs?”
The post Introducing: Theology That Sticks appeared first on Church Works Media.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Robert Caro is fascinated by power. He has given his life to exploring how it is gained and kept. And in Robert Moses, the subject of this epic book, power looks like the ugly idol it can be. It delivers at first, but then it enslaves.
But let us not think that power is in itself bad. Caro himself has incredible powers. The sheer amount of work—hours and hours of work, years of work, years of at first unremunerated work—that Caro put into this and his LBJ projects required power. This work has rightly exalted Caro (and his wife and research assistant and, for this his first book, bankroller, Ina)—because those years were spent for the good of others instead of for the amassing of power in itself. Indeed, Robert Caro is now a living legend. Robert Moses, because his quest for power became...
Gracious, clear, accessible. Extremely well done. I nearly docked him a star for being ever-so-slightly in a different place than I am on creationism (though I still found his thoughts very helpful), but that didn’t seem right! I do simply feel that the effects of old-earth views on theology are not commonly reported by proponents, but what can I expect? YEC weaknesses aren’t reported by YEC proponents.
One thing I found very interesting and insightful was the way that Ortlund acknowledged that second-order issues can have ties to first-order ones.
The Gospel Coalition sometimes faces criticism for affirming complementarianism in its foundation documents but not taking a position on, say, baptism. Isn’t it inconsistent to seek to be “gospel-centered” and yet have a position on...
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