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June 12, 2015
If Gender is Flexible, Why Not Race?
Yesterday, an interesting story broke about Rachel Dolezal, a leader in the NAACP in Spokane, Washington. Supposedly, she had been portraying herself as a black woman for quite some time, changing her appearance and stating that she had African American parentage. Her parents spoke to the media, informing the public that her geneology is European. [Read More...]
June 10, 2015
Bad Theology in a Hymn I Really Want to Like
(by Eric Phillips) There’s a medieval hymn by Rabanus Maurus, Veni Creator Spiritus, composed in Latin in the 9th century, which has been translated and set to music in many different ways so as to give us many different modern hymns. I counted 15 different versions of it in the list given for “Rabanus Maurus” [Read More...]
All Philosophy is Morality and Teleology – and Other Tacitly Known Truths?
Post by Nathan Rinne “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” — I John 4:10 “If religions can be defined as ‘doctrines of salvation’, the great philosophies can also be defined as doctrines of salvation (but [Read More...]
June 9, 2015
A Christian Response to Transgenderism
On today’s program, I deviated from my normal topics to discuss the LGBTQ movement, and transgenderism in particular. I talked about how Christians should respond to this issue, and where the church has fallen short in the past in doing so. Here is the program
June 4, 2015
Sermon for Trinity Sunday
(By Eric Phillips) In the screen capture, I look like I’m trying to conjure up spirits, but I assure you I am not. This is the sermon I preached last Sunday on Ezekiel’s vision of the Throne of God (6:1-8) and the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
Sanctification is not Assurance: A Continued Response to Kevin DeYoung
I recently responded to a post by Kevin DeYoung on the issue of assurance here. He recently wrote a blog post in response to his critics (I was certainly not the only one) here. He mentioned that of the several responses, “some of the critiques were petty and personal,” (hopefully not mine!) but others were [Read More...]
June 3, 2015
The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Heinrich Schmid’s Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is now available from Just and Sinner Publications. Here is the description: In the contemporary Lutheran church, our rich dogmatic heritage is often forgotten. We tend to privilege Luther and other early reformers over the later tradition that developed through his reforms. The church would benefit [Read More...]
A Plea to Reformation Christians: Don’t Let Your “Simul” Become the One Ring to Rule Them All
Post by Nathan Rinne “Sins were sweeter to me than honey and honeycomb. That they are now pungent and bitter, I owe to You who gave me spiritual taste…” – John Gerhard “I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.” – Psalm 119:176 (last verse) [Read More...]
June 2, 2015
Christification
On this week’s podcast, I played my lecture Christification: A Lutheran Approach to Theosis from the Imago Dei Conference. This follows up on the lecture I played last week on Justification by faith. Here is the program
May 30, 2015
Calvinism Leads to Credo-Baptism
Hence Calvinism narrows to the last degree any real difference between its own views and those of Anabaptists, or Baptists. In stating the points of controversy between Calvinists and Mennonites and other Anabaptists, the Calvinist divines constantly represent themselves and the Anabaptists as perfectly agreed, so far as the Baptism of the children of unbelievers [Read More...]
