Jesus is God, but did he know during his earthly ministry that he was God? Was he, as a human, aware of his divinity? I think it is necessary, for biblical and logical reasons, to answer yes to this question, but I freely admit that doing so raises further difficult questions and forces us to affirm an incarnation of the Word that staggers the imagination.
How could someb...
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Hugh Hewitt suggests that the Obama campaign is taking on water fast. He compares it to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
I have freely borrowed from a song about that wreck to eulogize the moment. No fan of the Clinton machine, I take no joy in seeing a better ship taking on water.
The Wreck Of the Edmund Obama
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of...
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We should pay more attention to the doctrine of divine blessedness. I have been pondering it lately, noticing it everywhere in older theological writing, and wondering how to give this great doctrine more weight and emphasis.
Beatitude, blessedness, is a divine attribute. It is a perfection of God's being. Blessedness has occupied an ambiguous place within the structure o...
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Theodore Roosevelt was such a dynamic candidate that he towered over the President who chose him as running mate. Even though the popular Rough Rider may have helped William McKinley, there is little doubt that McKinley would have won with just about anybody not criminally insane (or at least known to be criminally insane) on the ticket.
I cannot think of one vice-presidenti...
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Here's a cartoon left on my office door by a Torrey student. Charles Wesley turned 300 this year. Who got the mad lyrical flow? I can't hear you...
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Lots of Americans don't like Evangelicals, especially in the academy. That is sad, since much of the dislike is based on falsehoods and irrational prejudice.
Some people cannot disagree without hate. Thank goodness that the millions of Evangelicals in the United States can see their deeply held beliefs mocked without reacting with the violence so common to many communities....
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Richard Rogers (1550-1618) was a Puritan pastor who noticed that people had lots of questions about how to live the Christian life. They asked very detailed and specific questions, but none of the devotional books available in his time gave correspondingly detailed answers. There were a few Roman Catholic books that got down to specifics, but their Catholic ideas about grac...
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Global warming will kill us all. Lowered sun spot activity will soon cause a new ice age. We are about to face a famine. We have an "epidemic of obesity." Terrorists are certain to use nuclear weapons to bomb a major U.S. city. The global war on terror is hype designed to take away our civil liberties and usher in a fascist state.
These are all stories I have read fairly r...
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And Jesus said, "Father,forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Jesus was dying.
He did not deserve to die, but He had been sentenced by the rulers of his day to death out of envy, fear, and pride. Roman crucifixion was a horrible way to die and He was near the end.
Wicked persons have historically tried to blame particular groups for the death of Jesus. This ...
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As Light prepares to dawn, at long last, for Christians with windows facing East in the many mansions of God's house, my mind turns from politics, pop culture, and even Plato to better and more beautiful things.
Last night while returning from church our family was totally quiet all the way home. You have to know us to realize how rare this is. Any gathering of Reynolds in a...
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Any good catechism includes the Lord's Prayer, broken up line by line and explained. The Heidelberg Catechism includes such a commentary on the Lord's Prayer in its final ten questions (120-129), and it is excellent. Click through to read the full discussion in question and answer format.
From that discussion, I culled the basic interpretation of each line of the prayer...
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Bottom Line:
If Senator Obama is part of a new elite that assumes all thoughtful and good people, fit to rule, are SLAG (secular, liberal, and globalist), then he will lose this election.
Argument:
Of late, Senator Obama has been accused of being an elitist. He may be an elitist, but if so he is one in the painful sense of one trying to "make it" from outsider roots...
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