So, while we were in Adelaide last week I finally got around to purchasing the CD Awaken The Dawn by Keith and Kristyn Getty. Having a listen in the car on the way home one of the songs that I did not know still sounded familiar. The lyrics to What Grace Is Mine are written …
Michael Bird posts on a blog called Euangelion. This recent post arises from two recent situation where Old Testament scholars of some reputation have been dismissed from reformed seminaries for holding positions on the historicity of the early chapters of the Bible that are, to say the least, controversial. Others could characterise them as being …
There seems to be a growing fascination with the theology of Karl Barth among evangelical and reformed theologians. If a monkey placed before a typewriter for an infinite period of time would eventually make the consecutive keystrokes to produce the works of Shakespeare (or some other author: “It was the best of times, it was …
Always beware of ‘bait and switch Gospels’. This is where you’re told that the Gospel is larger than Jesus dying in your place as the atoning sacrifice for your sins. Some other element is introduced as being emblematic of the Gospel. Then substitutionary atonement is either set aside or omitted altogether. The elements emphasised may …
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