April, 2006
Who's Got Good News?
I’ve got some good news! Absolute moral truth is revealed in the Bible! Really! Jesus was without sin! Absolutely without! Satan literally exists! (That explains some of what goes on this world!) But it is GOD who is both omnipotent and omniscient! Christians must evangelize! Who else has this good news? Protestants? Surely pastors! According [...]
Mahaney on Dever on Spurgeon on Election
So what are the REAL conversations like between these friends? Here’s some of the highly erudite conversation today! Mark to CJ: Wasn’t that a great Spurgeon quotation on election?! [referring to the quotation in the earlier blog entry entitled "A Becoming Weakness"] CJ to Mark: Yep, it’s a classic and affects folks every time I [...]
The Christian Response to Christ's Resurrection
Thanks Al for a great post on the Gospel (and don’t you love C.J.’s answer to his own questions?!), and for pointing us to Mark’s important article on the atonement. Thanks Mark for the Spurgeon quote. I quoted John Piper yesterday, during the morning services (from his Easter sermon in 2000). It’s a great example [...]
Dever on the Old Testament
Al, thanks for recommending Mark’s article on the atonement in Christianity Today and commending Mark for this article. I couldn’t agree more. And thanks for your fine post on the meaning of the gospel. In case you guys didn’t know, Mark’s latest book, The Message of the Old Testament: Promises Made, was just published by [...]
Dever on the Atonement
Don’t miss Mark’s article, "Nothing But the Blood," in the current edition of Christianity Today. Mark has done a great job of laying out the objections to the substitutionary character of Christ’s atonement, and then of answering these objections with solid argument. At the same time, he acknowledges that no single metaphor or model is [...]
A Becoming Weakness
Al, thanks for reminding us that salvation is all of grace. We’ve had a great Lord’s Day at CHBC thinking about this. This morning we were in II Cor. 11:1-12:13. This, of course, is that famous passage where Paul "boasts" of his weaknesses that Christ’s power may be made perfect, displayed through Paul’s reliance and [...]
The Meaning of the Gospel
I write this early in the morning of Resurrection Sunday, a Lord’s Day like every other, lived and celebrated in the light of the glorious resurrection of Christ from the dead. What a time to consider the meaning of the Gospel. C. J. raised this question, and it is so vast that it defies summarization. [...]
