La meditación bíblica es la meditación sobre la Biblia
¿Qué significa meditar? ¿Y como es la meditación cristiana? A través de los siglos, formas de meditación no bíblicas se han prestado de otras tradiciones religiosas, tales como el hinduismo y el budismo. Peor aún, muchas de estas prácticas meditativas surgieron de–y asumieron–un evangelio de salvación por las obras. Y así, la meditación se convirtió […]
Estar Seguro De Las Promesas
Estaba hablando con un caballero presbiteriano, admirador de Gordon Clark y John Robbins, sobre como los calvinistas entendían la naturaleza de la fe. Cuando le pregunté su opinión sobre si pensaban que la seguridad era la esencia de la fe salvadora, dijo claramente que sí. “Después de todo, cuando Jesús prometió, ‘Voy y preparo un […]
Dinner Church Evangelism: Some Issues and Recommendations
I’ve been reading about different ways of doing church that try to adhere to how the first Christians met. One model is the “dinner church” model, which tries to recapture the fact that the early Christians met to eat meals together. For example: So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread […]
Biblical Meditation Is Meditation on the Bible
What does it mean to meditate? And what does Christian meditation look like? Over the centuries, unbiblical forms of meditation have been borrowed from other religious traditions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Worse, many of these meditative practices grew out of, and assumed, a gospel of salvation by works, and so, meditation became yet another […]
A Church Can Be Doctrinally Sound, But Unloving (Revelation 2:1-7)
Did you know that a church can be doctrinally sound and yet be without love? That’s not an idea I find easy to entertain, because I care so much about doctrine. But that is what Jesus said to the Ephesians: To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, ‘These things says He who holds […]
Errata: JOTGES (Spring 2020)
Do you know what an author’s worst nightmare is—what keeps us up at night? Publishing mistakes. Spelling mistakes are embarrassing. Formatting mistakes are bad, too. But worst of all is printing a sentence that is the exact reverse of what you meant to say. I am mortified to say that I did that in my […]
Assured of the Promises
I was talking to a Presbyterian gentleman—a fellow admirer of Gordon Clark and John Robbins—about how Calvinists understood the nature of faith. When I asked his opinion as to whether they thought that assurance was of the essence of saving faith, he said they clearly did. “After all, when Jesus promised, ‘I go and prepare […]
La imagen de Dios y gobernar con Cristo
¿Qué es la imagen de Dios? He leído sobre justo casi cada teoría diferente que usted puede imaginar, tratando de identificar la naturaleza de la imagen de Dios. He visto argumentos en favor de simplemente ser consciente de sí mismo, o inteligente, o capaz de hablar, o de amar, o de poseer un alma, y […]
Moses’ Indirect Proof of Eternal Security
“A job half done is as good as none.” Have you ever felt like a failure in your service to God? Have you ever counted the time that you wasted, thought about the things you’ve left undone, and wondered how that might affect your eternal standing with God? Moses surely felt that way. Although he […]
Eternal Life Is Christocentric
Free Grace theology should be thoroughly Christocentric, not least of all because eternal life itself is entirely Christocentric. What I mean is, eternal life is centered around Jesus. By contrast, how many religions are man-centered, works-centered, Mary-centered, saints-centered, money-centered, or even cult-leader-centered? But eternal life is about Jesus. How so? You are called to believe […]