The following post is part of a series of learnings from reading Jaroslav Pelikan’s Five-volume The Christian Tradition: A Development of Doctrine. Growing up Baptist, I was of course taught the Bible from a Baptist perspective, learning doctrines like eternal security, priesthood of the believer, and congregational polity. Makes sense,
As I reflect on the books I read in 2020, here are my best books: Best Christian Life Book – Gentle and Lowly by Dane Ortlund. It won’t be surprising
Tonight is election night. Months of ever-increasing debates, campaign speeches, and media ads have finally led us to this day of reckoning in American democracy. When it is over, there
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. – Jonathan Swift Imagine at your
Since I got that call, no more Saul, now I’m Paul.– Kirk Franklin, Toby Mac’s Lose My Soul Let’s make this short and sweet. God didn’t change the apostle’s name
Warning: In case of rapture, car will be unmanned. That’s what the bumper sticker read. I saw it a lot growing up. I see it sometimes today. Maybe you’ve seen
In college I heard a preacher I highly esteemed, when asked why he spent little to no time preaching verse-by-verse from the Old Testament, reply it was because he was