A Provocative Confession: Jesus as the Truth
The fact is confessing Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life has always been provocative. It’s always been contested. It’s...
Are You Ready For a Real Theologian?
You don’t come to God by thinking but by praying.
Who Needs Confessions of Faith?
Why do we have confessions of faith? There are many reasons. Some are not so obvious. But for Protestants the first and most important reason is simple: We have confessions not because we want to say more than the Bible says. We have them because we do not want to say less.
John Calvin
Calvin Meets Voltaire – An Interview with Jennifer Powell McNutt
Editor’s note: Since we are not the first Christians or congregational leaders in the Reformed tradition to swim against strong cultural and intellectual currents,...
Theology
A Theology of the Ordinary
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life––your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life––and place it...
Theology
Is Theology Practical?
This address was delivered at Theology Matters’ first conference on Hilton Head Island, Feb. 19, 2020. I made an off-hand comment to Richard Burnett one...
Theology
On Reconciliation – Honoring the Work of Jesus Christ
Christ Jesus . . . has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. Eph. 2:...
Confessing the Faith
A Provocative Confession: Jesus as the Truth
The fact is confessing Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life has always been provocative. It’s always been contested. It’s...