Orthodoxy and orthopraxy - right doctrine and right practice - tend to live on the opposite ends of the pendulum swing in the historic life of the church.  A reaction against imbalances and failures in one usually leads to an overreaction and over-commitment to the other.
This has often been the case with orthodoxy.  The term [...]

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This morning, I was lounging around with the wife and kids (after having just eaten some of my wife’s oh-so-delicious peanut butter pancakes) when I answered a knock on the door and found myself in a conversation with two ladies from the Watchtower Society.  Now, I don’t know why exactly Jehovah’s Witnesses pick Saturday morning [...]

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OK, first a quick observation and thought: I find it interesting that if you are my age and go to the boys toy aisle at your local Wal-Mart or Target, you are struck with a serious experience of déjà vu.  Virtually every type of toy you see is exactly the ones that you remember from [...]

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My family and I have been on vacation this week doing the cross-country road trip thing.  My two boys, ages 3 and 5, are really great travelers, which makes these trips surprisingly fun.  One of the things that a trip like this does, however, is bring out the occasional sibling tensions.  We try to eliminate [...]

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I know I’m sliding this in just before Roger’s Monday post, but I found this chart posted by Jason Robertson to be a great resource for a quick comparison between Dispensationalism and Covenantalism, and thought I’d share it here.  Enjoy!
(HT: The Contemporary Calvinist)

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First, a specification: this post is intended for Christians, specifically those Christians who are struggling with the issue of faith and reason. Not that it wouldn’t be instructive (hopefully) for our non-Christian readers, but I will be speaking in a way that presupposes a Christian commitment to the God of the Bible and to the [...]

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“If God is good and all-powerful, why is there so much evil?”
The problem of evil in Christian theology has received much attention, both from those within the faith as well as from objectors outside the faith.  In the former category, many fine Christian minds have applied themselves to offering theodicies - justification of the presence [...]

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