As the New Year rolls out I wanted to say something about some things I hope to achieve over the next 12 months – Lord willing. It would be wonderful if the Lord would return for his Church and make what follows academic. It’s not that important anyway 🙂 The School The small school I am privileged to run, Veritas School of Theology (not to be confused with Veritas Theological Seminary, which was named after ours btw), enters 2012 with …
Category: Personal Stuff
My chosen title shouldn’t alert you to my reflections on News stories of the last year Albert Mohler is a good place to go for that. Neither should you come here expecting to read about the controverted topics in the smaller world of Evangelicalism (e.g. the overdone saga of Rob Bell’s book – after all W.G. Scroggie, J. Wenham, J. Stott had issues with Hell too). These have their place, but I often find them somewhat boring. And anyway, …
I don’t usually do this sort of thing, but my friend Ed. Franklin linked to this on FB and I thought it would be good “filler” here while I try to get time to write something else. It’s from a site called In Plain Sight about the investigation into the earnings and lifestyles of certain “Christian celebrities.” You will read about how Joel Osteen is enjoying his best life now. How Joyce Meyer has nothing to hide about her spending, …
I am very concerned with theological precision. I come across a lot of quite sloppy theological argument and assertion so I try to promote more robust theologizing at Veritas. I class myself neither as a Calvinist nor an Arminian. I know some folks say that one is either one or the other, but (again) I find their reasoning rather slipshod. So I call myself a “Sovereigntist.” The main tenet is that “God’s decision always precedes man’s decision.” I think I …
Today I heard about the death of John Stott. In view of the man’s stature and his personal influence on me, I think this deserves a few words. John R. W. Stott’s name is one of the most familiar in the broad reaches of “Christianity.” This notoriety extends beyond evangelicalism and into neo-orthodox and neo-liberal churches. His name is associated with several important movements, publications and declarations of the past fifty years, including the Lausanne Covenant on world missions, the …
The first weekend of July I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at the Family Retreat in Waxahachie, TX. I had been given the broad title “The Family and the Church.” Praise God, even though they were quite hard-hitting, the talks were well received. Here is an outline of each presentation, which was given under the auspices of Veritas School of Theology: First Presentation: All in the Family This talk centered on the key institution of marriage in …
I am almost finished with my post on “Dispensationalism and TULIP: The Perseverance of the Saints,” but I’m running low on inspiration today so I thought a lighter, more irrelevant piece would be the ticket. I started this blog in October 2007 simply as a way of putting thoughts somewhere. I had gone through a difficult experience with the institution I had worked hard for (fired after my presence was considered to be a threat to the new leadership), so …
It’s been a good eight years since I last listened to Harold Camping on the radio. I used to enjoy hearing him “answering” questions from callers in that self-assured deep voice of his. Most often he would be harping on two things. The first was the apostasy of the Church, and how he believed it was all through; mature saints had better form house churches and leave the apostates alone. The other string on the harp was Calvinism. Camping is …
I don’t spend much time reading other blogs. I know there are lots of good ones out there, but I just don’t have the time to surf the blogosphere. I should add that I find many of the trendy blogs pretty boring. Some of them seem to be little more than weekly reports on what John Piper or D. A. Carson or Tim Keller happen to be doing at any given time. I don’t mean anything by it, but those …
I have recently returned from attending the 2010 Pre-Trib Conference in Irving, TX. Among the speakers were Michael Vlach, Wayne House, David Larsen, Paul Wilkinson, Andy Woods, Mike Stallard, and Barry Horner. Each presentation from these speakers was of high quality. In my opinion the two most noteworthy presentations were by Wilkinson and Horner. This is not to criticize the other men mentioned above, but just to say that Wilkinson’s excellent lecture about the disturbing rise of Anti-Israelite Christian Palestinianism …
