Category: Theology
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On Mountaintop or Seafloor
I wrote the below essay while overseeing (with others) a gathering of around eight families through the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. With local churches having closed their doors, we, along with the others involved, decided to open ours. Each of the eight families who attend are in similar life stages though their struggles…
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Take Care All Ye Amnesiacs!
The Bronze Serpent From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For…
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Fruitfulness as a Theme in Redemptive History
Creation was designed for fruitfulness. It’s a sign of God’s created order functioning as it ought and a signal of his continued grace toward all he made. We witness the budding of God’s creation in the first chapters of Genesis while the roots of revelation mature and its flowers bloom throughout the entirety of Scripture.…
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On God’s Word Alone by Matthew Barrett
In God’s Word Alone, author Matthew Barrett aims to articulate, clarify, reason for, and reinforce the original meaning and current importance of the Reformation doctrine, Sola Scriptura. Broadly speaking the doctrine of sola Scriptura asserts that Scripture alone is the ultimate authoritative, magisterial authority in the life of the believers and the catholic (universal) church,…
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On Knowledge and Knowing God, a Critical Response to the 1st Vatican Council
Consider the statement below: “The Catholic Church, with one consent, has also ever held and does hold that there is a two-fold order of knowledge, distinct both in principle and also in object; in principle, because our knowledge, in the one, is by natural reason, and, in the other, is by Divine faith; in object,…