Emotional or Affected?
While C. S. Lewis encourages us to not place too much stock in our feelings, he was adamant that the whole point of education was… Read More »Emotional or Affected?
David de Bruyn
David de Bruyn pastors New Covenant Baptist Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a graduate of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Minnesota and the University of South Africa (D.Th.). Since 1999, he has presented a weekly radio program that is heard throughout much of central South Africa. He also blogs at Churches Without Chests.
Stop Feeling Your Feelings
Since emotion is a mangled and confusing word, we need to separate the different experiences it is used to refer to. As we have seen,… Read More »Stop Feeling Your Feelings
Does God Have “Emotions”?
Trying to answer a badly-worded question often leads to an inferior answer. Loaded questions implicate those who even attempt to answer them. “By what authority… Read More »Does God Have “Emotions”?
A Short History of “Emotion”
Some might be surprised to learn that the word emotion is perhaps only 200 years old. Thomas Dixon has documented the history of the term… Read More »A Short History of “Emotion”
Emotion
Perhaps few words are as mangled as the word emotion. In this word is a cacophony of confusion. For some, emotion is nothing more than… Read More »Emotion
A Theology of Equality
When God made humankind, He made them male and female, both equally in His image (Genesis 1:26-27). According to Peter, this makes men and women… Read More »A Theology of Equality
Beauty and Knowledge
Beauty does not only encourage a pursuit of reality, but beauty encourages a Christian epistemology. It teaches how we know what we know. The Enlightenment… Read More »Beauty and Knowledge
Equality and Necessary Hierarchy
The current proponents of social justice have little idea of what they may be creating in pursuit of their goal. Their goal is a just… Read More »Equality and Necessary Hierarchy
Beauty and Reality
Beauty has made a comeback. After years of being relegated by intellectual elites to the junkyard of old and outdated concepts, it is now popping… Read More »Beauty and Reality
A Parable About Pop Music in Church
Christian 1: So I hear you have a problem with lollipops? Christian 2: Lollipops? No, I think they’re just fine. Christian 1: But you apparently… Read More »A Parable About Pop Music in Church
The Value of Beauty
What possible value can the study of beauty deliver? Isn’t this fiddling while Rome burns, counting daffodil petals while barbarians lay siege to the city?… Read More »The Value of Beauty
Beauty and Christianity’s Primary Endeavors
Once we understand that beauty is close to glory in meaning, we will without any difficulty find beauty at the heart of many Christian endeavors.… Read More »Beauty and Christianity’s Primary Endeavors
Beauty as Scripture’s Theme
The idea of beauty is present in the first chapters of the Bible, as God creates and then makes the evaluative judgement that it was… Read More »Beauty as Scripture’s Theme
Beauty in Scripture’s Words and Forms
C. S. Lewis once wrote that the modern dilemma is either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste—or, more… Read More »Beauty in Scripture’s Words and Forms
Beauty in the Hebrew Bible
Few Christians would say that beauty is unbiblical. After all, they vaguely remember references to “the beauty of holiness” or the desire “to behold the… Read More »Beauty in the Hebrew Bible
In Pursuit of a Doxology
In 1962, A. W. Tozer warned that the evangelical church was missing a jewel. “Now, worship is the missing jewel in modern evangelicalism. We’re organized;… Read More »In Pursuit of a Doxology
Limited Atonement: Rejecting What Was Never Provided?
We have seen that to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Scripture teaches particular redemption, an advocate would need to show an explicit negation: a denial… Read More »Limited Atonement: Rejecting What Was Never Provided?
Limited Atonement: Provision and Application
Proponents of definite atonement wish to avoid a “hypothetical” atonement by asserting that the elect’s sins were actually atoned for, when Christ died in A.… Read More »Limited Atonement: Provision and Application
Limited Atonement and Eternal Justification
Limited Atonement, also known as definite atonement and particular redemption, is regarded by some as a kind of Shibboleth of Reformed or Calvinistic Orthodoxy. Disavow… Read More »Limited Atonement and Eternal Justification
Nine Biblical Truths Regarding the Doctrine of Election (2)
We continue to examine nine biblical theses regarding election. 6. The individuals given to Christ by the Father are chosen in Christ. just as He… Read More »Nine Biblical Truths Regarding the Doctrine of Election (2)