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  • Notes on Calvinism

    Notes on Calvinism

    Some notes on Calvinism: God’s sovereignty and human choice are not a zero sum game. The way Scripture presents reality, human choices are genuinely free, but also foreordained by God. This is known in philosophy as compatibilism – the view that freedom and foreordination are compatible. Theologically, it is known as Augustinianism or Calvinism. A… Read more

  • Notes on Genesis 1

    Notes on Genesis 1

    It’s important to get the early chapters of Genesis correct. On the topic of creation/Genesis 1, I especially recommend Jim Jordan’s Creation in Six Days and Doug Kelley’s Creation and Change. Both of these books are excellent defenses of young earth creationism – the view that God made the world in 6 days about 6000… Read more

  • Some Notes on the Paedobaptism Debate

    Some Notes on the Paedobaptism Debate

    Some notes on the paedobaptism debate: 1. The fundamental divide between covenant baptism and the Baptist view is seeing baptism as a gift and work of God in which we receive a promise versus seeing baptism as act of obedience in which we make a confession of our faith. Is baptism about God’s promise or… Read more

  • The New Right Meets Ecclesiocentrism

    The New Right Meets Ecclesiocentrism

    The goal of Christian cultural engagement is not to anger the left or “own the libs” or “drink liberal tears.” The goal is to be faithful to Scripture in all of life. Yes, a by-product of faithfulness will be transgressing progressive dogmas. And when that happens, the attitude of the New Right to the left’s… Read more

  • A Masculinity Manifesto (Repost)

    A Masculinity Manifesto (Repost)

    This essay already appeared on this blog and also on Kuyperian.com last year, but I wanted to repost it as a stand-alone piece. I love it when various interest of mine converge in one place, and that’s the case with Romans 2:6-16. This passage brings together some of the themes I’ve emphasized in my teaching… Read more

  • Waxing Nostalgic

    Waxing Nostalgic

    I was going through some old emails the other day and came across an email I wrote to my kids on the occasion of one of them graduating from high school. This is a slightly edited and slightly depersonalized version of that email: ———— Graduating high school is an important milestone in life. It’s a… Read more