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James J. Cassidy/December 7, 2015

New Film on Knox

Being that we do not know the exact year John Knox was born, that means we can stretch out the celebration of his 500th for multiple years! Scholars continue to …

Tracey Shannon/November 30, 2015

[Review] Theological Fitness by Aimee Byrd

“I think we often think of perseverance as passive endurance. I hope to change that.” Thus writes Aimee Byrd, author of Theological Fitness: Why We Need a Fighting Faith, published …

Camden M. Bucey/November 27, 2015

Vos on Merit and the Mosaic Covenant

It is plain, then, that law-keeping did not figure at that juncture as the meritorious ground of life-inheritance. The latter is based on grace alone, no less emphatically than Paul …

Nathan Shannon/November 27, 2015

Covenantal Apologetics Colloquium: Abstracts and Program

We are pleased to announce the paper selections and program for the Covenantal Apologetics Colloquium, which will be held online on Saturday, December 5th, at 7pm (eastern). We’ll be streaming the …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/November 24, 2015

Dealing with the Sin of the Double Life, Part 2

While a senior in high school, I was pressed into playing the part of a court jester in our annual Canterbury festival. I was prepared with the perfect objection—I was …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/November 4, 2015

Dealing with the Sin of the Double Life, Part #1

Simple images have a way of simplifying stories. Movies have perfected this technique. Think of oranges rolling randomly about in the back of the vehicle. They are just fruit in …

Nathaniel Sutanto/November 2, 2015

Bavinck and Charitable Reading

In the 1908 Stone Lectures delivered at Princeton Seminary, Bavinck develops a sustained reflection on the function and necessity of divine revelation. The lectures were compiled as the Philosophy of …

Bob Holda/October 27, 2015

The Eternal Fruitfulness of Transformational Prayers

Take note of the astonishing nature of what Jesus promised his disciples, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be …

Jeffrey A. Stivason/October 24, 2015

God After God: Jenson After Barth, Part #7

Perhaps you will remember from the last post, according to Jenson, Israel’s hope, as well as our own, is for participation in God’s own reality, which is nothing less than …

Camden M. Bucey/October 24, 2015

God’s Maximal Truth

May the day come, and come soon, when American fundamentalists will stop being content with the minimum of God’s truth and start proclaiming the maximum. —Ned B. Stonehouse, “ Stars …

Lane G. Tipton/October 17, 2015

Pneumatology and Adam

Lane Tipton delivers the first of his two plenary addresses at our 2015 Theology Conference at Hope OPC in Grayslake, Illinois.