N.T. Wright and the dominion mandate

Mick found a great quote from N.T. Wright’s book, Evil and the Justice of God (pp. 138-139). Wright, a highly esteemed Anglican bishop, is not a full preterist, but what he says is very much in line with stuff I have written. One of the many books I’m going to eventually get around to reading [...]

Election and Adoption Part 3: God’s Purpose in Election

This is the conclusion of a series. The first two installments are:
Part 1: Romans 7 and 8
Part 2: Gracious Sovereignty
As I stated in Part 2, I reject the notion that foreknowledge is prescriptive. I hold to the conviction that there is an interplay between man’s choice and God’s choice. One cannot rationally hold a robot [...]

Seekers welcome

“Knowledge puffs up.” This phrase is customarily pulled out of the rest of 1 Corinthians 8:1 and cast as a slur upon those like myself intrinsically driven to seek more learning and understanding. Even the immediate context of this phrase in 1 Corinthians 8 shows, however, that not only is knowledge necessary, but that it [...]

And the Lord spake, saying, “What was I thinking?!”

Preterists who deny a physical Resurrection of the Dead have been accused of being gnostic (because we supposedly believe that only spiritual reality matters and that the physical world is evil). Yet those who demand a destruction of the physical universe and the replacement with a spiritual new heavens and new earth are surely closer [...]

Iambic tetrameter

The heavens and the earth have passed
The new has dawned, the night complete,
The day of judgment come. At last
The rule of Death dies in defeat.
The fear, the tears our fathers knew
Awaiting the Redeemer’s call
Have dried, has fled. The Life broke through;
Death’s victory was snatched withal.

All hope fulfilled and joy made whole
By overflowing life within,
Those purchased [...]

Let it never be said that my blog is too serious

Election and Adoption Part 2: Gracious Sovereignty

I had to cut the last post short, somewhat abruptly as you might have noticed. But since presenting bite-size chunks is better for blogging anyway (not that you would know it from my posts!), so I went ahead and posted it. Here’s a continuation.
What I’m trying to do is present an audience-relevant view on certain [...]

Election and Adoption Part 1: Romans 7 and 8

As long as I can remember, I have struggled hard against the Calvinist understanding of the doctrine of election. Recently I have been observing and interacting with a number of people of the Reformed persuasion, and I am astounded at the intellects of some of the people wholly sold on a teaching that requires so [...]

Surprise!

Since we already had both a girl and a boy, and since we knew their sexes well before their births, Renee and I were happy to be surprised with our third child. The announcement, “It’s a ____,” never meant so much before. So here it is: “It’s a girl!”
Here’s a little footage of our precious [...]