Writing: The Academic Writing We Need
The Church and the academy seemed to have always had an intimate, if not volatile relationship. Among the multiple results that have followed from it has been the fascinating and…
David Smith
Dr. David Smith is pastor of Covenant Fellowship ARP Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. He and his wife, Tracy, are the parents of three young adults: Gresham (19), Isaac (16), and Katherine (15). Dr. Smith has served on various committees within First and Grace presbyteries, and recently served on the Erskine Board of Trustees. He received his M.Div. from Covenant Seminary (1995) and did his Ph.D. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (2008) under John Woodbridge. His dissertation, B. B. Warfield’s Scientifically Constructive Theological Scholarship is published in the Evangelical Theological Society Monograph Series.
The Old Man Crucified: Putting Off & Putting On
The terms old and new are like the terms high and low, tall and short and big and little; they are relative terms; we know what they mean as they…
Natural Theology: The Design of Creation
Genesis 1-2 reveals that God created in an orderly way and a cosmic order with everything having a function based on what he created it to be. In other words,…
Natural Theology & Christian Apologetics: A Brief Primer
The topics of apologetics and natural theology are, to say the least, complex and controversial. Yet as Christians we have to deal with them. So let us try informed by…
Insuppressible Truth:The Design of Creation
Genesis 1-2 reveals that God created in an orderly way and a cosmic order with everything having a function based on what he created it to be. In other words,…
Surveying Sanctification: Already Made Holy by God
Within Reformed theology there is an emphasis on the “already, but not yet” aspect of the Christian faith and life. It’s an emphasis, though, that is not merely within Reformed…
The Apostles’ Creed: I Believe
The Christian school student began his argument with an unassailable assertion: “I feel like I knew the answer.” Funny, though, he marked an incorrect answer. In fact, the question was…
The Spirit of God in the Old Testament
The Old and New Testament (Covenant) Scriptures command their reader to treat them as two distinct wholes inseparably and organically united. Yes, what is truly in the OT, yet somewhat…
Braving Hard Passages: Hard Passages to Holiness
Words hardly do justice to the experience of preaching and teaching God’s word. Irony is the blanket from which the preacher cannot free himself. After all, the hope of glory…
Eternal Generation and Preaching the Biblical Gospel
Every Sunday I have the astoundingly gracious and mercifully miraculous privilege to preach God’s written word to some of God’s precious covenant people. But why does God require that his…
From ABC to PhD: A Thorough Trinitarian Summary
Review of B. B. Warfield, “The Biblical Doctrine of the Trinity,” in Collected Works, vol. 2, (NY: Oxford UP, 1929; Reprint Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1991), 133-72. …
Sexual Identity: What Does the Bible Say?
Unspoken assumptions make the argument. Debates become fruitful when unspoken assumptions get clarified. Many of us are accustomed to calling these assumptions presuppositions—controlling beliefs that determine how we think. In…