Occupation: Professor Birth: 1952
Human beings are special, of higher dignity and worth than other animals, because they're created in God's own image and likeness. It's actually true….
Only God has no limits (except those he voluntarily imposes on himself). The mantra "no limits" is actually a call to idolatry..
Scripture is our norming norm and tradition is our normed norm and that in a doctrinal controversy Scripture alone has absolute veto power while The ….
We're creatures, so we have limits..
Before you disagree make sure you understand. In other words, we must make sure that we can describe another's theological position as he would descr….
The Heidelberg Catechism rightly says, for all Christians who allow the Bible to absorb the world for them - who see reality through the biblical sto….
The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's u….
There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see" reality thro….
Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out and show it to….
For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical and ev….
We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of ….
Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Ch….
To some of us, raised and trained in allowing the Bible to absorb the world (that is, to "see" all of reality through the biblical story), the Bible ….
As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of….
Too many American (and other) Christians revel in feelings and/or morality and don't care to develop a biblically-shaped Zeitgeist or worldview. The ….
The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says..
"Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses….
The biblical writers didn't need to say everything; they could assume some things. They didn't anticipate a day when even Jews and Christians would f….
GraceQuest is a gripping story of one man's (and his family's) struggle with tremendous weakness and pain, but it is also a narrative theodicy--defen….
If the biblical writers were writing today they might spell out some things more clearly, given how easily even Christians fall into thinking in ways….
Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.'.