There were mixed responses to the reasons why I don’t go to church (institutional church) anymore. Some identify. Some think I criticize. Know that my heart is never to attack the church but to be faithful to it’s true meaning. But there is much confusion with the way the word “church” is understood and used nowadays. […]
Introduction: Today’s guest, David Torrance, is a retired Church of Scotland pastor, an active minister of the gospel, and the younger brother of Thomas and James Torrance. David and his brother Thomas translated into English the 12 volumes of Calvin’s Commentary on the New Testament. He contributed to and edited The Witness of the Jews to God, and together […]
In Victor Hugo's Les Miserable, Jean Valjean spends the night in the home of the Bishop of Digne. Despite the generosity of the bishop towards him, Valjean rises during the night, and takes valuable silver from a cabinet. Hearing the noise, the bishop awakens and walks into the room where he sees Valjean stealing his belongings. Valjean knocks him to th […]
This post continues comments on Forsaken (The Trinity and the Cross, and Why it Matters) by Thomas H. McCall.Last time we saw how McCall shows that Jesus' cry of dereliction on the cross ("my God, my God, why have you forsaken me"), cannot be taken as indicating that the Father separated himself from his Son. McCall uses several arguments to d […]
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich” (2COR 8:9). In the genius of the blessed Trinity, our cruel rejectionof Jesus became the way of our adoption; our bitter abuse became the way of the Father’s embrace and the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. […]
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