Cautioning Politics in Preaching: A Case Study
by Josh Sommer | July 17, 2024 | Confessionalism, Historical Theology, Politics | 0 Comments
In volatile political climates, the church and her elders are ever pressured to use the pulpit as an opportunity to correct the ills of the state.
The One Only True & Living God
by Josh Sommer | May 29, 2024 | Biblical Theology, Confessionalism | 0 Comments
We live in a materialistic cultural rut that strives to remove any and all reference to the supernatural. Philosophical and scientific naturalism has stripped the world of its vibrant, spiritual excitement. But is this a good reason to adopt henotheism?
The City of God
by Josh Sommer | February 26, 2024 | Biblical Theology, Historical Theology, Politics | 0 Comments
If everything we knew faded into history, could we still be a church—constant, remaining, set upon the Rock, identified by that heavenly, unshaking city of God?
The Term “Reformed”: A Hill to Die On?
by Josh Sommer | January 29, 2024 | Historical Theology, Practical Theology | 0 Comments
Whether Baptists are called “Reformed” or not isn’t something self-professing Reformed Baptists ought to be willing to die over.
My Bible vs. Our Bible
by Josh Sommer | January 28, 2024 | Biblical Theology, Confessionalism, Historical Theology, Practical Theology | 0 Comments
The only Bible you’ve ever seen is at your church. The pastor reads from it every Lord’s Day, and it was produced over the course of a year by a band of monks in a scriptorium a week’s ride from where you live.
Abraham Booth on the Incarnation of the Son
by Josh Sommer | January 10, 2024 | Christology, Historical Theology, Systematic Theology | 0 Comments
By affirming this orthodox article of the hypostatic union, Booth lays the foundation for avoiding just about every variety of kenotic Christology…
The Theological Psychology of Gregory the Great
by Josh Sommer | January 3, 2024 | Philosophy, Practical Theology | 0 Comments
In discussing pastoral qualifications, Gregory glosses the psychology of curiosity, earthly cares, and shame. Below, I will look at what he has to say concerning each of these.
Hilary of Poitiers, Incarnation, & Partitive Exegesis
by Josh Sommer | December 27, 2023 | Hermeneutics, Historical Theology | 0 Comments
“Being, then, in the form of a servant, Jesus Christ, Who before was in the form of God, said as a man, I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.”
Shall We Worship Love? The Dilemma of Denying Divine Simplicity
by Josh Sommer | December 21, 2023 | Confessionalism, Philosophy, Systematic Theology | 0 Comments
The denial of classical DDS seems to encounter a dilemma — worship love or not.
The Cosmic Meaning of the Church
by Josh Sommer | December 17, 2023 | Biblical Theology, Ecclesiology | 0 Comments
The church is an organism with a divinely bestowed identity and a heaven-entranced trajectory.