Tag: jesus
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Explaining the Text — Or Explaining It Away?
Far too many modern pastors spend far too much time explaining what the text of the Bible is NOT saying rather than what it IS saying. A few examples: I’ve been in conservative paedobaptist churches where, when an infant gets baptized, the pastor spends far more time explaining what is not happening than what is…
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“It is Finished!”: The Cross as Prophetic Finale
What did Jesus mean when he cried out from the cross, “It is finished” in John 19? Certainly, Jesus was making a soteriological statement. “It is finished” means he has drunk the cup of divine wrath against human sin to the dregs. He has paid for and cancelled our debts (“tetelestai” was often written on…
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Pilate on Trial: The Gospel According to Pilate
Pilate sneered, “What is truth?” when Jesus stood trial before him. But then Pilate went on to speak truth, time after time. Indeed, Pilate, like Caiaphas in John 11, unwittingly preached the gospel. Consider the words of Pilate in John 18-19: “Are you the King of the Jews?” Yes, he is the King of the…
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Against the Seder; For the Lord’s Supper
There’s nothing more stupid in the church today than evangelicals doing a play-acting “Seder Supper.” First, we don’t need to do a fake Passover. The church already has the Lord’s Supper which is (among other things) the fulfillment of the old covenant Passover. Jesus gave us a meal. Why do something other than what he…
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February/March 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Imprecatory Psalms, Feminism vs. Femininity, War with Iran, Putnam on Diversity, American Christian Nationalism, Roosevelt on Islam, John Stott on the Cross, Thomas Manton on Covenant Children and Parenting, Free Market Capitalism, St. Patrick, Wealth, John 13, Empathy, Etc.
I recently did a podcast with Josh Haymes on love/hatred for enemies: This was a follow up to an earlier podcast we did on imprecatory psalms: Right Wing Watch took notice of our most recent episode — though they managed to miss the whole point of what we were saying: https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/any-means-necessary-christian-nationalists-call-destruction-their-political-enemies Of course, this article…
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Biblical Submission vs. Mutual Submission
A note on a wife’s submission to her husband: Egalitarians push the concept of “mutual submission” based on Ephesians 5:21. The grammatical problems with this way of reading that text have been pointed out many times by the better commentators. The egalitarian reading of the text is a novel interpretation. It’s a reading of the…
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Thomas Manton on Infant Faith and Infant Salvation
If without faith it be impossible to please God, then childrenmust have some kind of faith, else they can never be accepted to life. Iknow that the apostle doth principally speak of adult or grown persons,men of age, such as come to God, and seek him: but though, however, therule is general, there is no…
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Sermon Transcript: September 24, 2017 Reformation 500 Series — The Absolute Sovereignty of God (Romans 9:1-33)
An AI-produced transcript of my 9/24/17 sermon: 500 years ago, this October, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. And so this is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation this year. It’s an event in history truly worth celebrating. Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer,…
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Antinomianism and Legalism
This is an old Reformation Day X post: A post for Reformation Day: We often think there are two ways to get the gospel wrong: there are legalists who try to earn God’s favor, and antinomians who presume on God’s favor. Legalists try too hard, antinomians are too lax. Legalists are slaves to the law,…
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Dispensationalism, Christendom, and Israel
[The following post is not intended as commentary on the current military operation in Iran. I will comment on that later. This is a theological point I’ve been thinking about for a while.] One of the things that I believe attracts modern Dispensationalists/evangelicals to the nation-state of Israel is not just their (flawed) exegesis and…
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