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In his 2022 book, What is Saving Faith? Reflections on Receiving Christ as a Treasure, John Piper proposes that saving faith—which could be described as the initial faith by which we are justified and which perseveres to final salvation—by its very nature, contains spiritual affections. He begins by explain what he is considering, “I am … Read more
Psalm 82 has been fraught with interpretive difficulties throughout most of the history of its reception. Most of these difficulties are focused on the gods of the divine council in verses 1 and 6. The psalm has also been a favorite for comfort in knowing that God will bring about ultimate justice. The perennial problem … Read more
The qualifications outlined in Leviticus 21:16-23 for the priesthood have unfortunately led to the formation of negative perceptions towards people with disabilities. This perspective portrays people with disabilities as flawed, impure, profane, sinful, cursed, or even immoral. These representations contribute to a distorted and unfair image of disability and those who are differently abled and … Read more
The majority Reformed position regarding the relationship between the old and new covenants in seventeenth century Britain may be summarized by the formula: same in substance but different in administration. There were disagreements, however, among those who held this position, particularly with respect to the differences between the covenants. In fact, the way in which … Read more
Scholarly opinion is divided regarding the relationship between the epilogue of Ecclesiastes (12:8-14) and the main discourse that precedes it (1:2-12:7). While there is near consensus that the epilogue provides the final and authoritative word for the reader in 12:13-14, there is great disagreement on how the outlook of these verses relates to the message … Read more
The aim of this paper is to clarify the meaning of the Reformed doctrine of concupiscence with a view to answering the personal and pastoral question: Is concupiscence something we should mourn or something of which we should repent? The impetus for this paper lies in the fact that, in recent years, the doctrine of … Read more
Since it was a proposed standard in the Roman Catholic Church’s Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963), “full, active, and conscious participation” in corporate worship has been assumed by many worshiping traditions to be a fundamental goal. The topic of participation was a prominent, multifaceted goal in the Liturgical Movement. In less systematic ways, it has been a … Read more
In the realm of soteriology, Charles Spurgeon is recognized as a Calvinist, a theologian fully affirming God’s election, predestination, etc. But he also strongly believed in human responsibility, i.e., that both views were true and needed to be accepted. In one of his sermon’s, he noted: “That God predestines, and that man is responsible…are believed … Read more
Wilfrido Sierra Castro (1909-1969) was a humble peasant from the tiny rural hamlet of Rio Verde, Esmeraldas, Ecuador, who might have been just another obscure evangelical believer hidden from public view, were it not for the fact that for a few years (1966-1968) he was the neighbor of the caustic, brilliant, acerbically humorous, bitterly agnostic … Read more
The proposed paper seeks to answer whether Christian Nationalism (CN), as described by Stephen Wolfe, threatens to diminish the witness of the evangelical Gospel around the world. This paper will first offer a working definition based on a survey of writings from Christian nationalists, then, use Wolfe’s contention that Christians must politically assert themselves to … Read more