By: Jason|12 December, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Martin Luther . Paul . suffering . teaching . Thomas Oden
Thomas Oden of Drew University Theological School explains why any Christian understanding of truth must include a willingness to suffer for that truth.
Read more »Author and literary critic, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), on the new modesty.
Read more »By: Jason|05 December, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Christian ethics . cross . Jesus Christ . poverty . Tim Keller
Tim Keller on how God’s symbolic and literal identification with poverty should radically reorient our view of poverty and the poor.
Read more »By: Jason|03 December, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Apologetics . culture . J. Gresham Machen
Influential Presbyterian theologian and co-founder of the Westminster Theological Seminary, J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937) discusses why the intellectual challenges to the Gospel matter.
Read more »By: Jason|29 November, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: D. A. Carson . Resurrection . Special Revelation . verbal revelation
Don Carson on the importance of verbal revelation in God’s communication of Himself to humanity.
Read more »By: Jason|25 November, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Christianity . Ethics . Jesus Christ . Sermon on the Mount
Peter Kreeft explains that the heart of Christianity is not ethical, but metaphysical.
Read more »By: Jason|23 November, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Jesus Seminar . Scot McKnight
Scot McKnight discusses the search for the historical Jesus and argues that common portraits of Jesus as merely a social revolutionary or religious teacher are unable to explain why he was killed or why the early Christians chose to identity themselves with him.
Read more »By: Jason|19 November, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: David Wells . eschatology . Theology
David Wells on the substance of Christian hope, from his book ‘The Courage to Be Protestant’.
Read more »A quote by Augustine on the worldviews of the city of God and the city of man. After Alaric and the Vandals had sacked Rome and many people began to blame the conversion of the empire to Christianity for this, Augustine wrote The City of God to give a defense for the church, by tracing the history of two cities or worldviews from the beginning of the world.
Read more »By: Jason|14 November, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: David Wells . ecclesiology . Evangelism . grace . Jesus Christ . judgment . proclamation . Truth
David Wells on truth and the proclamation of the Gospel.
Read more »By: Jason|13 November, 2009|Categories: Quotes|Tags: Doctrine . Faith . Jesus Christ . knowledge of God . R. Albert Mohler Jr . Theology
There is no faith relation with Christ free of doctrinal content. The knower must have some knowledge of the known, or no relation exists. That seemingly redundant and self-evident statement should underlie the issue. Jesus Christ and our knowledge of Him are not in any sense coextensive. But one cannot have a relation with Him without knowledge, and that knowledge…
Read more »“One thing is for sure. God has said something about everything. He has told us that all things are created and that all things are sustained by him. He has told us that all things are to be done to his glory and that all things work according to the counsel of his own will. These notions have sweeping ramifications for any thing that we pursue…
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