Jared Wilson writes about the adoption of what he terms ‘baptismal dual practice’. Wilson pastors an independant congregation which has members who represent both what I’ll call the ‘covenant family’ and ‘professing believer’ positions on baptism. As part of a confessing body of churches this issue is not one that we would deal with constitutionally …
Fifteen years ago or so I was teaching the account of Elisha, the youths and the bears with a flannelgraph to a mixed primary kids club. One of the parents was mortified and didn’t believe the story was in the Bible until she looked it up. Like Ehud and his sword, these are the sorts …
Greidanus’ outlines seven legitimate ways of preaching Christ from the Old Testament. Now he brings these seven to bear on Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 As he’s already noted, two of his seven, promise fulfillment and typology, are not applicable in the main to Ecclesiastes. Here are scant summaries of how Greidanus treats the other five: Redemptive-Historical Progression: …
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.’ Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the …
