Dr. Robert K. Rudolph, Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Philadelphia from 1932-1981, wrote something of a short introduction … Read more→
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Four Points about the Noahic Covenant and Redemptive History
The Noahic Covenant was the first covenantal administration after God’s initial covenant promise to redeem and restore humanity (Gen. 3:15). It is also the first time that the word בְּרִית (Berith) … Read more→
“Confessing Our Faith in a Non-Confessing World” Conference (AK)
Tomorrow Burk Parsons and I fly out to Anchorage, AK to speak at a Spring Theology Conference (May 11-13) at Faith PCA (the only PCA church in Alaska). The title of … Read more→
On the Scriptural Witness to the Historicity of Adam
Moses tell us how Adam was created (Gen. 1:26; 2:5-8) and how many years he lived (Gen. 5:5)
The writer of 1 Chronicles traced humanity from Adam to David (1 Chronicles … Read more→
Vern Poythress on the Different Approaches to Scripture
In his book God-Centered Biblical Interpretation, Vern Poythress gives a helpful and humorous scripting of the different sort of approaches people make with regard to understanding the Scriptures. The conversation … Read more→
The Emmaus Sessions: A Tale of Two Seeds
This past Tuesday, we held the third of “The Emmaus Sessions” at New Covenant Presbyterian Church. Knowing the importance of Genesis 3:15 in the history of redemption, we met to consider the … Read more→
The Emmaus Sessions: The Church as the True Israel
We recently held the second of “The Emmaus Sessions” at New Covenant Presbyterian Church’s study center, in which we considered the subject of “The Church as True Israel.” This is an … Read more→
Spurgeon on the Amusement-Driven Church
As a young Christian I remember stumbling across this statement by Charles Spurgeon on how entertainment and amusement are not part of the tools of Christ’s mission for the Church in the … Read more→
The Sermon on the Mount and the Savior on the Mount
It is one of the hardest–and yet most necessary–tasks of the exegete to deal carefully with a particular text in the Bible while not forgetting it’s redemptive-historical context. Forgetting this … Read more→
The Emmaus Sessions – Jesus: True Israel
Last week I met with a group of zealous, young Christian men in the Savannah, GA area for a series of talks on biblical theology. For lack of a planned … Read more→
