by Able Baker | Feb 11, 2015 | Reformed Theology
Perhaps you have grown up with an indelible image of God pressed into your brain through teaching and preaching that seems to boil everything in the Christian life down to God getting Glory. Not that God getting glory is a bad thing. God is glorified and should be but...
by Luke Geraty | Oct 16, 2013 | Church History, Evangelicalism, Reformed Theology, Soteriology, Wesleyan-Arminian
Randall Balmer writes in The Making of Evangelicalism: “… Evangelicals have understood better than anyone else how to communicate to the masses. The message they propagate is simple, straightforward, and utterly indebted to Charles Finney. Come to Jesus....
by Luke Geraty | Oct 22, 2012 | Charismatic Theology, Reformed Theology, Soteriology
If you desire to fit in with Charismatics, you have to learn how to use 2 Cor. 3:17b: “… where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” If you are an exegete, or at the very least a careful reader of Scripture, you’ll notice that I...
by Luke Geraty | Sep 17, 2012 | Baptism, Biblical Theology, Ecclesiology, Reformed Theology, The Kingdom of God
For anyone involved in the theological schools known as Dispensationalism, Covenant Theology, or New Covenant Theology, you may be interested in reading several reviews of Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants, written by...
by Luke Geraty | Sep 5, 2012 | Gospel, Reformed Theology
One of my favorite systematician writes: “An examination of some of the relevant passages reaps the following fruit of teaching. Believers have been chosen by God ‘to the praise of his glory’ (Eph. 1:11, 12); to ‘show forth the praises’ of the One who called...