The Lord has graciously opened up various ministry opportunities over the past several weeks. And after finishing teaching through chapter 1 (Scripture) of the LBCF at church, doing a week long blog exchange with a Textus Receptus Onlyist (Dr. Jeff Riddle), and after speaking at Intervarsity Christian Fellowship for SDSMT last Thursday night on the [...]

The discussion got started in the RTS Virtual forums and I had to put in my two cents: “I agree that the household texts (all of them, in fact, with the exception of Lydia’s household in Acts 16) affirm the baptism of believers/disciples, and that none of them affirm or assert any form of infant-baptism. [...]

“Just not quite reformed enough…” “Someday you’ll see the light Jamin…” “Oh…you’re one of those…” These are some of the quotes that I’ve repeatedly heard from dozens of former college and seminary professors, pastors, and friends. I spent 3.5 years at a CRC college studying theology (where I met maybe 3 or 4 baptist students, [...]

Romans 9 is one of the most humbling chapters in the Bible. It demonstrates the absolute sovereignty of God over our salvation. God chooses who He will save (grace) and who he will condemn (justice), unconditionally, unashamedly, unapologetically. As creatures, it reminds us that we are pots and that God is the Potter. We either [...]

When creatures sit back and think about what’s absolutely certain, history usually shows that we arrive at conclusions like “I exist,” and “2+2=4″ and “blue is blue” and so forth. It’s not hard to see why. How could we assert the contrary? As Descartes observed, to deny that I am thinking would lead to the [...]

Just got done with a fun discussion/debate on infant baptism with my seminary mentor Wes White. Check out his new website here for some good Reformed apologetics. (And do download White’s debate with Bill Shishko if not for any other resource on the subject). Last week’s sermon by Pastor Eddie Childers at PRBC was very [...]

Abraham Kuyper: Aggressive Reaction (to Traditional Apologetics) and Unnecessary Abandonment (of All Apologetics) (apologetics is “useless” (Lectures on Calvinism, 36). Herman Bavinck: Initial Critique and Summary of Solution (“The Valid Apologetic” in Reformed Dogmatics) Cornelius Van Til: Comprehensive Critique and Reformation (The Defense of the Faith, Introduction to Systematic Theology, A Christian Theory of Knowledge) [...]