Scripture, Sufficient for What?
When I was young and living under my parent’s tutelage, cleaning my room was a primary chore assigned to me. However, even though I was the chief custodian of my room I was not the boss! After cleaning, my mother…
Tag Apologetics
Announcing Danny Hyde’s Newest Book
We are pleased to announce the publication of Danny Hyde’s newest book, Content Yet Contending: Jude (EP Books). For our friends in the U.K., you may obtain it directly from the EP Books. For those of us on this side of…
A God Thing
Exuberant over an experience, an oh-so-sweet manifestation of divine providence, you delightedly seek to give God praise in telling your story. “It was such a ‘God thing’,” you proclaim. As you see it, God wove together an otherwise inexplicable combination…
Sexual Identity: legal Issues: Enslaved Freedom
In today’s America it’s pretty much an accepted dictum that true freedom is being able to choose whatever it is we desire. And when it comes to sexuality and gay rights, this is especially the case. If a man…
Sexual Identity: Legal Issues: Five Responses
Several years ago, I was eating lunch with a few pastors who were lamenting our current cultural condition. What made the conversation so memorable was the man seated beside me. He was a pastor from Eastern Europe. In fact, I…
Why Do We Exist?
For all is quaintness, the opening question and answer to the Westminster Shorter Catechism is iconic. Despite the best attempts by its updaters to give it a more contemporary feel, none seem to resonate in the way the original wording…
Sexual Identity: What Does the Bible Say? – Getting at Ultimate Issues
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 a culture that has largely accepted the belief that the…
Know When to Run
Ever since I studied the Antinomian-Neonomian controversy that took place among the English Dissenters in London during the final decade of the seventeenth century, I have wanted to write on the debate itself. Part of the impetus for this was…
Confession and Apologetics: Modeling Scripture’s Method to its Message
My seminary professor of missions emphasized what is often glossed over when discussing and doing mission work: the Bible not only presents a message but a method of its delivery.[1] Similarly, the Bible has its own method of apologetics (self-defense)…
Confession and Apologetics: Theological Assumptions & Culture
“Although the light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and power of God, as to leave men un-excusable; yet are they not sufficient to give that knowledge of God and…