Every society has a rulebook, but living in one’s birth culture creates a blind embrace of its practices, norms, and expectations. We believe certain things about speech, social cues, and even driving habits with little awareness of what we prize…
Congrats to our own Dr. Ryan McGraw who last night gave his inaugural lecture as Professor of Systematic Theology at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina, entitled, “Gisbertus Voetius, Presbyterianism, and Smart Phones.” Have a listen and enjoy!
Meet the Puritans editor and contributors Joel Beeke, Danny Hyde, and Ryan McGraw will be speaking at the upcoming International Conference on “John Owen: Between Orthodoxy and Modernity.” Hosted by the Theological University Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, from August 31–September 2, this…
Thanks to our own Dr. Ryan McGraw, we now have a new page on our “Reading the Puritans” dropdown menu: Annotated Bibliography on Reformed Piety. We pray this stimulates you to read and to grow in your love for Christ.
Not long ago I received an email asking a question. Its impetus was from the Westminster Confession of Faith. The person wanted to know how the Westminster Assembly could have taught that God is impassible when the Scriptures clearly teach…
A month before our son was born my wife came home from the baby shower with a gift even a father could love: two over-sized plush boxing gloves in the shape and color of Hulk’s famous fists. Smash those green…
An overview of the Trinity ought to include a variety of elements. The synopsis might begin with a statement concerning God’s incomprehensibility and our creaturely need for revelation. It ought to cover the doctrine of divine simplicity. God’s triunity should…
Why don’t we immediately see God the Holy Trinity jumping from the pages of Old Testament scripture? It is a sincere question a Muslim, a Jew and even a newer Christian all may ask. Reading the Old Testament by its…
Some years ago, J. Ligon Duncan, chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary, declared in a sermon at the historic First Presbyterian Church of Jackson, MS that God was “not an undifferentiated monad!” Precisely so. The God of Scripture is Triune: Father,…
In the history of the Church her doctrines have been understood and organized through seven distinct yet interrelated topics or categories: Scripture, God, Man, Christ, Salvation, Church and Last Things. These distinct yet inseparably related doctrines reveal that the doctrine…
