by Able Baker | Apr 10, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
1. THE GRACE AND HOLINESS OF GOD [KD p. 394; CD p. 351] God is He who in His Son Jesus Christ loves all His children, in His children all men, and in men His whole creation. God’s being is His loving. He is all that He is as the One who loves. All His perfections are...
by Able Baker | Mar 20, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! (On Thursday) I hope you enjoyed some thought provoking reading this week! I know these are more devotional. The truth is I am not really smart enough to read Barth any other way! haha God’s being consists in the fact that He is...
by Able Baker | Mar 12, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some thought provoking reading this week! I missed last week I was a busy pastor. THE LIMITS OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: God is known only by God. We do not know Him, then, in virtue of the views and concepts with...
by Able Baker | Feb 26, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some thought provoking reading this week! Faith is the total positive relationship of man to the God who gives Himself to be known in His Word. It is man’s act of turning to God, of opening up his life to Him...
by Able Baker | Feb 19, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some thought provoking reading this week! We are now on to book 2.1! Wow… Really? The new reading list is below. “The one Church is both the hearing and the teaching Church. It can never be the one...
by Able Baker | Feb 12, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some thought provoking reading this week! Wow we flew through that book! I will have a new reading schedule up for us ASAP. “The well-known definition of the Church in Conf. Aug. 7 runs: “It is taught that...
by Able Baker | Jan 29, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some thought provoking reading this week! We are cruising through book 1.2! This is not the case even in the person of Christ where the identity between God and man, in all the originality and indissolubility...
by Able Baker | Jan 23, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some reading this week! “If we are seekers of God, and to that extent lovers of God, this can be definitely and unequivocally proved and maintained of the children of God only by the one thing: that in all...
by Able Baker | Jan 15, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some reading this week! The Southern Baptist statement of faith simply says this regarding Scripture… “The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is...
by Able Baker | Jan 8, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome back to Wednesdays With Barth! I hope you enjoyed some reading this week! I am really chewing on these portions of my reading this week (below). Help me out. Expectation… In our context there can be no question of more than a crosssectional indication of...
by Able Baker | Jan 2, 2014 | Wednesdays with Barth
Technically this was finished on Wednesday (10:41 pm)! So I can still welcome you to Wednesday’s With Barth! #winning! Barth says… “In identifying with divinity a humanly conceived idea, one, that is, already belonging to man prior to, or even apart from, any...
by Able Baker | Dec 27, 2013 | Wednesdays with Barth
Our new reading list for Wednesday’s With Barth . Church Dogmatics Book I.2 in 7 weeks. Dates in bold represent posting/discussion days. December 30, 2013 pp v–xiii, pp 1–25 January 01, 2014 pp 26–69 January 03, 2014 pp 70–106 January 06, 2014 pp 107–146 January 08,...
by Able Baker | Dec 25, 2013 | Wednesdays with Barth
It’s Christmas around here in our home and it has been for the last 25 days. If you’re a pastor you understand what I mean. Our little family advent calendar has a different family activity for us to do together everyday. Last night our “25 days of...
by Able Baker | Dec 18, 2013 | Wednesdays with Barth
Welcome to week four of Wednesday’s With Barth! We decided that my posts would be more reader friendly if I posted something shorter with a little bit more of what I thought about what I read. That scares me to death but I will try! I am not a scholar and Barth says...
