Common Grace
There is much more to grace than meets the eye. Indeed, to borrow and slightly tweak the title of a song made famous by Bing Crosby in 1955, ‘Grace is a many splendored thing’. Although we instinctively link it to…
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Themes in Puritan Theology: Creation and Providence
Having considered the decrees of God or his eternal purposes in which he foreordains whatever comes to pass (WSC, Q7), we now look at how God “executes” or carries out these plans “in the works of creation and providence” (WSC,Q8).…
The Rock Badgers Would Like a Word With Us
“Do you know what would happen if the world suddenly stopped spinning?” I asked my kids during our morning Bible time. My 12-year-old consulted one of her favorite books What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.1 If the earth…
Wednesday @ Westminster: God’s Making of Humanity
We live in a time in which our humanity is misunderstood, at best, and under attack, at worse. Our consumer society is rooted in the philosophy that greed is good, that “it’s not personal, it’s business,” and that he who…
Wednesday @ Westminster: God’s Work of Creation
The story goes that there was an astronomer, a biologist, a cosmologist, a geologist, and a physicist who climbed the highest mountain in the world in order to collaborate on determining the origin of life. The astronomer measured the distance…
A Surrejoinder to Peter Enn’s Response to G. K. Beale’s JETS Review
EDITOR’S NOTE: The article below is a surrejoinder from G.K. Beale in response to Peter Enns’s published rejoinder to Dr. Beale’s JETS Review Article of His Book, Inspiration and Incarnation. I thank Peter Enns for responding to my review article…