Understanding Confessional Retrieval (Part 2)

There are many things we observe in history that we wouldn’t necessarily want to appropriate into the present.

Understanding Confessional Retrieval (Part 1)

The church is not a biological, chemical, or mechanical laboratory. We’re not looking for the latest developments in “Christian theology.” Our science is very old.

The Analogy of Scripture

When we say “Scripture interprets Scripture,” we are talking about the analogy of Scripture.

What Is the Gospel?

We should be careful not to insert ourselves, or what we do into the gospel equation. If we do this, we essentially become co-mediators and co-redeemers with Christ.

An Account of Credobaptism From Matthew 8

It’s a microcosm of the overall redemptive arc of our Lord’s incarnate ministry. From Capernaum, through the trial of storm, landing in the nether regions on the other side of Galilee (and Jordan).

A Simple Definition of Virtue

According to Thomas Aquinas, the Augustinian definition “comprises perfectly the whole essential notion of virtue.”

Nehemiah Coxe & Paedobaptist Inconsistency

But paedobaptists generally limited covenant interest only to immediate offspring.

What Is Theoretical Theology?

When we speak of theology as “theoretical” we are not speaking about something uncertain or non-factual.

Which Way Western Man? Curiosity, Or Studiousness?

Very few people speak to one another. Knecks angled down, eyes overshadowed by hair or brow, most people stare at their phones.

Sola Scriptura & Biblicism: What’s the Difference?

Sola Scriptura and biblicism are entirely different from one another in form and matter. Sola Scriptura is a principle, biblicism is a mode or manner of biblical interaction.

What Is the Gospel?

What Is the Gospel?

We should be careful not to insert ourselves, or what we do into the gospel equation. If we do this, we essentially become co-mediators and co-redeemers with Christ.

An Account of Credobaptism From Matthew 8

An Account of Credobaptism From Matthew 8

It’s a microcosm of the overall redemptive arc of our Lord’s incarnate ministry. From Capernaum, through the trial of storm, landing in the nether regions on the other side of Galilee (and Jordan).

Gary DeMar & 1 Thessalonians 4

Gary DeMar & 1 Thessalonians 4

And it’s also concerning that DeMar does all of this while maintaining a decently high profile influence over younger and/or more impressionable Christians.

Will the Christian Ever Stop Working?

Will the Christian Ever Stop Working?

Unwittingly, Christians often make the assumption, implicitly or explicitly, that the work of redemption was intended to restore man to a Garden of Eden situation, and that nearly everything about the pre-lapse life will characterize life in glory.

The Divine Dominion

The Divine Dominion

Power, as a divine attribute, leads us to consider the administration of it in God’s sovereign dominion.

Trials & Their Outcome

Trials & Their Outcome

This is a command and an encouragement to count those things as joy which the world would count as occasions for despair and cynicism.

Our Pilgrimage

Our Pilgrimage

A pilgrim, traditionally understood, is a sojourner in a land that is not his own.

Losing the Legacy of Orthodoxy

Losing the Legacy of Orthodoxy

The design of common/redemptive kingdom semantics is the preservation of the redemptive kingdom, and with it, the preservation of the gospel that alone produces it.

Covenant Theology IV | The Covenant of Works

Covenant Theology IV | The Covenant of Works

In substance, all that is meant by “covenant of works” is the divine imposition of conditions upon man in the garden with blessings for obedience to those conditions and curses for failing to obey.