Justin Taylor’s Hope

May 2, 2012

A couple of favorite quotes from Justin Taylor’s blog, Between Two Worlds: Everything Sad Will Come Untrue “Is everything sad going to come untrue?” —Sam Gamgee to Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings (chapter 4, Book Six)   “[Some mortals] say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing […]

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Review of Matt Chandler’s Book: The Explicit Gospel

April 29, 2012

This review was initially posted on Amazon. It elicited a host of comments. We found the most interesting were by those folks defending Chandler’s view on hell on the basis of an Arminian free-will theology! It was a bit unsettling when it was explained to them that Chandler believed in salvation through predestination/election and that […]

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The Greatest Miracle…Unity

April 12, 2012

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent […]

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Good Friday: Stories of the Atonement

April 7, 2012

When I first read the word “theory” in the same sentence as the Atonement I was decidedly alarmed. Years later I understand that that is an accepted adjective for a view of the Atonement by all theologians.  This is because for 2000 years the exact meaning, significance and definitive nature of the work on the […]

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“Eu-Catastrophe”: The Good Ending

April 7, 2012

Eucatastrophe:  a sudden and favorable resolution of events in a story; a happy ending. ORIGIN mid 20th cent.: said to have been coined by J. R. R. Tolkien Stories can be categorized by what were called by the Greeks as either “tragedies” or “comedies”.  Without going into all the literary implications a tragedy is simply […]

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D. A. Carson’s Blessed Conundrum

April 4, 2012

CONUNDRUM: a confusing and difficult problem or question. D. A. Carson as a neo-Calvinist reflects a theology in the tradition of Dutch theologian and Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper who said: “In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare,’That […]

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“Jesus Creed-ers” Love Justice

April 3, 2012

Chapter 15 of Scot McKnight’s book The Jesus Creed is called, “Jesus Creed-ers Love Justice”. Are you a Jesus Creed-er?  Do you love justice?  It all sounds positive. In all the recent controversy over the nature of hell the mantra we all heard most often was “God is love yes, but we mustn’t forget that […]

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Matt Chandler: His Explicit Gospel of Hope!

April 3, 2012

If you are not tracking with the missional church movement or are unfamiliar with the rising new Calvinist leaders you may not have heard of Matt Chandler. This is not necessary in order for you to be either encouraged or challenged by the following statements from his book The Explicit Gospel released in early 2012.  Matt […]

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