Theology

Jesus' Blood and Righteousness: Paul's Theology of Imputation By Brian Vickers 256 p. Crossway (October 2006) Brian Vickers', Jesus' Blood and Righteousness, is a work of careful exegesis and synthesis that attempts to establish a biblical basis for the doctrine of the imputation of Christ's...

As we come to the third and final segment in this series on the atonement, it would be good to remind ourselves where we have been. In this way we will have some idea of where we are going and of how to assess the way that the church has understood the cross of Christ. We saw how the atonement made...

Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine By Jason Byassee Wm.B. Eerdmans (November 2007) 290 p. Praise Seeking Understanding on the surface seems to have great promise: Jason Byassee wants his readers to take up the Scripture--and the Psalms specifically--and read them like...

Our God is a storytelling God. Much of the Bible is narrative, and a lot of that narrative is something that would give our children nightmares. I was 18 years old when I first read the story of the Levite's concubine from Judges 19. I was disturbed and disgusted by this story when I first heard it...

The Heart of Prayer: What Jesus Teaches Us By Jerram Barrs 256 p. P&R Publishing (February 2008) Reviewed by Brad Irick Recently, reformation21's own Derek Thomas preached the Sunday evening service at FPC Jackson from Nehemiah 1:11b-2:8. While commenting on Nehemiah's instinctual prayer in 2:4...

Recap Previously we examined the place of the atonement in the covenant theology that unfolds for us in the pages of the Scriptures. We discovered that there were three theological covenants [1]: the covenant of redemption that occurred between the three members of the Trinity in eternity, the...

Recap Previously we examined the place of the atonement in the covenant theology that unfolds for us in the pages of the Scriptures. We discovered that there were three theological covenants [1]: the covenant of redemption that occurred between the three members of the Trinity in eternity, the...

Young, Restless, and Reformed: A Journalists Journey with New Calvinists By Collin Hansen 160 p. Crossway (March 2008) Reviewed by Martin Downes Collin Hansen's book is obviously intended to be an impressionistic account of the younger generation of Calvinists within evangelicalism in the United...

The day they tried to recruit me to the most dangerous cult in the world! I arrived on Faculty at Westminster in the summer of 2001. I had only been on campus for a couple of months before a group of students approached me one lunchtime and tried to recruit me to a most sinister and dangerous cult...

In the third in a series of articles in which we examine Jesus' encounters with various individuals, we take a look at the conversation of Jesus with Mary of Bethany in Mark 14:1-9. Jesus was on his way to Calvary. He had made it increasingly a matter of conversation since the time he spoke with...