Could we be more pathetic? For gosh sakes, we're begging the world for street cred.
All in Theology
Why I Love Karl Barth
True theology brings God near because God has brought us near in Jesus Christ. Barth taught me that.
When You Do Not Obey, You Are Mute
"God stands by his word, and then even faith becomes possible as a miracle." - Karl Barth
Lying in the Westminster Standards
I say in all humility that the Shorter Catechism should read "forbiddeth whatsoever is prejudicial to righteousness."
Solomon Against Modernity
We must submit to the place that God put us in His creation. Modernity refuses to do this. The Modern man must be either God or meaningless manner. The Modern man ignores the wisdom of Solomon.
Lying in the Heidelberg Catechism
"Rather, in court and everywhere else, I should avoid lying and deceit of every kind; these are the very devices the devil uses, and they would call down on me God’s intense wrath." Heidelberg Catechism 112
His Body Offered and Broken
Kenzie isn't the only person who needs to hear this weekly.
Always Christ and Christ Again
"The mystery 0f the Church: always Christ and Christ again, and with him John the Baptist pointing to him." - Karl Barth
Sanctifying The Sanctification Debate
Can I say this without being accused of heresy: maybe our confessions aren’t useful if we use them as a way to truncate the Scriptures rather than let them speak?
The Jesus Prayer
In just a few small words we can express powerful, world-changing truths about who God is, we can acknowledge his role in our lives, we can appeal to the goodness and mercy that he has promised us, and we can be encouraged in our pilgrimage knowing that YHWH, our God, the Covenant Redeemer, will never fail us.
In Him They Are Yes
In the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the preacher of God's word can only but say "yes" to the congregation.
A Sanctuary Doctrine for Regular Flourishing
If God, the good and great Creator, is before and under and after everything, every-man, every-deed, everything I do, and everything happening to me, then the little stuff of life matters.
A Unity Prior Would Be A Lie
God is known in the resurrected Messiah.
Eating Locust and Wild Honey
"John the Baptist would not be John the Baptist without eating locusts and wild honey. Of course, he would not be John the Baptist either if he did not fulfill his spiritual charge" - Karl Barth
Theology in Diverse Community
Calling out people's exegesis is not a kosher thing to do. Calling out the confessions are even more non-kosher.
Childish Lawkeepers
Lord only knows much ink has been spilled over Jesus’ famous words “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” (Matthew 5:17).
Deep Breath
We should read the Old Testament with a deep breath and anticipate the messiah. When the Incarnation occurs, we must allow ourselves to be blown away by the incredulity of the story.
The Barefoot Man
For Christ, the putting on of human flesh led to the full exposing of humanity on the cross before God. Similarly for the Christian, putting on Christ is the full exposing of ourselves to our Heavenly Father.
God Aims at the Whole Creation
Jesus has initiated this glorious redemption and he has ascended to the right hand of God the Father Almighty from whence he has poured out His Spirit on His Church who will continue the work of redemption until all of Christ’s enemies have been made a footstool under his feet (Psalm 110:1).
The Aesthetic of the Suffering God
I would suggest that the sort of transcendent beauty discussed is not the world-saving beauty that Dostoevsky points us to; rather, the beauty that saves the world is actually quite ugly.