Determining if a poem, hymn, musical piece, novel, devotional work, painting or other work should be considered a helpful work of Christian imagination is mostly… Read More »Discerning the Christian Imagination: Consensus and Canonicity
Jesus’s confrontation with the Pharisees during his earthly ministry highlights the fact that God rejects worship based on the traditions of men; rather, he insists… Read More »The Authority of Scripture over Worship
I’m not sure where it began, but someone started the tale that the Hebrew High Priest had a rope tied to his leg, so that… Read More »Biblical Fact-Check: 613 Commandments?
One important principle articulated in several places in the New Testament was an emphasis upon the importance of biblical authority for worship practices. Usually these… Read More »Biblical Authority in Worship Practice
With this post, I conclude my series on Scripture-regulated worship (Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7). The Christian impulse to submit to Christ ought grounds our willing… Read More »Love for Christ & Scripture-Regulated Worship 8: Love for Christ through Scripture-Regulated Worship
I am forming an argument for Scripture-regulated worship from two pillars: the authority of Christ and our love for him (Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6). If Christ… Read More »Love for Christ & Scripture-Regulated Worship 7: Loving What Christ Loves
This is the sixth post in this series (Part 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5). The whole of the first five parts could be summarized… Read More »Love for Christ & Scripture-Regulated Worship 6: Love for Christ and New Testament Authority
My initial post in this series introduced the idea of worship regulated by Scripture alone (also known as the Regulative Principle of Worship). The second post considered important… Read More »Love for Christ & Scripture-Regulated Worship 5: Christ’s Authority 3
The first post in this series introduced Scripture Regulated Worship. The second post considered some of the most important arguments for Scripture-Regulated Worship. The Argument from Christ’s… Read More »Love for Christ & Scripture-Regulated Worship 3: Christ’s Authority 1
Note: This is the first in a series of posts on the Regulative Principle. This offers documentation for and expands upon my presentation to the 2018… Read More »Love for Christ & Scripture-Regulated Worship 1: Introduction
Most Christians are happy to accept the authority of expert opinion. What is instructive to note is which domains of knowledge they are comfortable to… Read More »Christians and Critical Judgments
Soul competence and the priesthood of the believer are two sides of one doctrine that Baptists cherish. Indeed, they make up part of the matrix… Read More »Authority, Soul Competence and Vocation
Since this series has dealt with “mangled” words such as tolerance, freedom, and authority, I was tempted to include elitism among them. Elitism, though, is… Read More »You Elitist, You
Within the avalanche of information coming at us, how do we identify true authorities in any domain of knowledge? How do we judge the anonymous… Read More »Identifying Authorities
The explosion of information on the web has made the idea of authoritative information almost a thing of the past. A CGI-Enhanced Youtube video about the… Read More »Who Made You the Authority?
This is the final post in a series I’ve been writing over the past couple months in order to more thoroughly develop an idea I… Read More »Worship forms regulated by Scripture
In this series of essays, I have argued that Scripture presents God’s truth to us, not merely in didactic propositions, but also (in fact, mostly!)… Read More »Aesthetic Correspondence
In By the Waters of Babylon, I make a brief statement about how the aesthetic forms of Scripture should guide and regulate worship forms today. In… Read More »Translating the Aesthetic Forms of Scripture
A couple of friends asked for clarification and explanation of a claim I make in By the Waters of Babylon, in which I argue that the… Read More »Verbal, Plenary Inspiration and the Aesthetics of Scripture
I’d like to take a few posts over the next several weeks to respond to one criticism of something I wrote, but did not develop,… Read More »Biblical Authority and the Aesthetics of Scripture