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Too often, contemporary Christianity sees all emotions or affections as essentially equal. For this reason, many conclude as long as some kind of religious emotion… Read More »Augustine on that which deserves the name “love”
Last week I argued that if we believe in verbal-plenary inspiration, then the meaning of the aesthetic forms we employ in our contemporary worship must accurately… Read More »Fittingness
39. What is meant by imagination? Imagination is that faculty which interprets and construes reality, and enables us to understand both what is seen and… Read More »A Worship Catechism (7)
First Things, founded in 1990 by the late Richard John Neuhaus, has become the flagship neo-conservative journal of opinion. Its mission has been to argue… Read More »Justification and the Gospel
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
33. What is meant by communing with God? Communing with God is beholding of the glory of the Triune God, directly and indirectly, in the… Read More »A Worship Catechism (6)
29. What has the Father done to enable us to abide in God’s presence? The Father lovingly chose us in Christ before the foundation of… Read More »A Worship Catechism (5)
Yesterday at the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, I presented a paper evaluating Isaac Watts’s Trinitarian views. I hope to get the paper… Read More »Implications from Isaac Watts’s Trinitarian Controversy
23. How does God accomplish this love in us? God sheds His love abroad in our hearts by work of grace: changing our natures to… Read More »A Worship Catechism (4)
Psalm 82:1 states, “God has taken his place in the divine council,” a line parallel in thought to the next: “in the midst of the… Read More »Who Are the Gods in Psalm 82?
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
15. How does the Father magnify God’s beauty? The Father magnifies the glory of God as Beholder, by delighting in it and declaring its uniqueness… Read More »A Worship Catechism (3)
The passages below speak of the appearing, revelation, and coming of Christ. Were we to transliterate the Greek words in each verse below, we… Read More »Our Blessed Hope
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
8. Can we love anything or anyone besides God? Ultimate love for God demands that we love all that God loves, for His sake (Matthew 10:37).… Read More »A Worship Catechism (2)
Scripture indicates that some understand God’s Word better than others. An unbeliever does not truly understand God’s Word in that, without the Spirit, he does… Read More »How Well Do You Understand God’s Word?
I encountered my first Chick comic at Pine Hill Hunting Camp near Alpena, Michigan. I was a boy, evenings were slow, and somebody had left… Read More »This Was Jack’s Life
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
1. What is the great priority and purpose of man? Man’s great priority and purpose is to love God with his entire being: heart, soul,… Read More »A Worship Catechism (1)
The Word of God is instrumental in conversion and sanctification. As to our conversion, Peter says you “have been born again, not of perishable seed… Read More »The Abiding Word of God