However, I would like to point out a few problems with the idea that God requires sinless perfection.
In Defense of Mary, Did You Know
So don’t be dissuaded. Sing "Mary, Did You Know?" and reflect on the greatness of Jesus this Christmas. Sing it every Christmas until you pass on from this mortal life. Just don’t sing it after the Christmas tree comes down.
A Grief Remembered
The day my mother died was a rainy one.
Music Review: Go Farther in Lightness
We are not perfect and our brokenness can be read in our social structures and our relationships.
A Brief History
This year, Torrey Gazette saw the publication of Coffee in Christian Ethics and Stop the Presses.
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There is a comfort in hearing them from someone outside of your own head, someone impartial to your own internal noise.
Still with Me in My Heart
Read in this light (not an immediate pun), the words of Rubarth become a soulful but softly whispered plea that the Christ with those "who have fallen asleep in Jesus" (1 Thess. 4:14) would return.
Original Sin was Infidelity
Faith is the primary condition worked out in elementary obedience.
Baptismal Hypocrisy
"I’m not welcomed at this Church!"
Written in the Water
I am now "just sinking in" to the grace of Christ conquering the current cyclical cacophony of death and life.
Calvin on Knowledge of God
"We should speculate soberly and with great moderation, cautiously guarding against allowing either our mind or our tongue to go a step beyond the confines of God’s word." - John Calvin
Music Review: Wildflowers in the Graveyard
With each listen, the songs get richer and more cavernous encouraging yet another cycle of listening.
Music Review: Visions of a Life
While the album relies on several indie rock conventions, there is enough diversity and emotional resonance to transcend its influences into a soundscape of its own making.
Conviction of Sin
It is to Him and His Son that we must continue to look to receive knowledge of our sinfulness and the subsequent forgiveness of those sins.
Theological Landmarks
Do not many of these Fathers point us to Scripture and Christ instead of their own words which merely evince Scripture?
Romans, Israel, and Infant Baptism
It is clear from Paul's doctrine that God's spoken word (Rom. 3:1-2) and promises (Rom. 9:4) remain with the circumcised of Israel so that God may "justify the circumcised by faith" (Rom. 3:30).
Returning to Solitude
This solitude stands before each theologian as a possibility but also the dangerous possibility to adopt superficially and on false presumptions. The urge to become the theologian Contra Mundum is to be resisted.
Carrying Loads
"O how he springs up before your eyes, how he deafened your ears, how he forces his way even into your dreams and disturbs your thoughts and wastes your time! O how he gets on your nerves!" - Karl Barth
Even Theology Departs
During that final judgment, all our incorrect and correct theology will be stripped away. Faith in Christ alone will remain.