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November 21, 2009 7:25pm

The Westminster Confession of Faith (1647) (PDF) is the most well known and respected of all the Reformed Confessions, although whether it is the best is contested by the Heidelberg Catechism and others. The Westminster Confession (WCF) stands in the...
Tags: The Westminster Confession (1647), WCF, Heidelberg Catechism, Mr. Spurgeon's Confession of Faith, padeobaptism, credobaptism, R.C. Sproul, The Baptist London Confession of Faith (1644), PCA, Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, John Calvin

July 31, 2009 5:44pm

I highly recommend reading The Unity of the Bible by Daniel P. Fuller, not only because it is #2 of John Piper's recommend reading list, but because Fuller successfully applies a unified continuum of the Covenant of Grace across the entire bible. Cov...
Tags: The Unity of the Bible, Daniel P. Fuller, John Piper, John Calvin, Institutes, Covenant Theology, Covenant of Works, Covenant of Grace

March 26, 2009 6:00pm

This month, I read John Piper's recent book, "The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright". You can download the entire book in PDF format from the Desiring God website for free too! I used to make fun of people who called John Piper a pr...
Tags: John Piper, N.T. Wright, Desiring God, The Pleasures of God, Future of Justiication, Book Review,

March 18, 2009 2:33pm

I was listening to a Q&A session by Tim Keller "How do Genesis 1 and 2 relate?" Keller mentioned an article by Meredith Kline called Because It Had Not Rained. Meredith Kline was Tim Keller's Old Testament scholar at Westminster Seminary. Kline on Cr...
Tags: meredith kline, tim keller, genesis, creation, covenant theology, covenant of grace, covenant of works, daniel fuller, Because It Had Not Rained, Covenant Theology Under Attack, Gospel and law: Contrast or continuum? : The hermeneutics of dispensationalism and covenant theology

February 13, 2009 7:20pm

I'm currently reading The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3) by N.T. Wright. It was recommend by D.A. Carson for a scholarly analysis of Resurrection. I'm half way through this excellent book and it's s...
Tags: N.T. Wright, Resurrection of the Son of God, D.A. Carson, Homer, Plato, Odysseus, Hercules, Egyptians, Mythology, Mosaic Law, Pharisees, Sadducees, Corinthians, New Perspective on Paul

February 12, 2009 1:45pm

D.A. Carson is arguably the greatest N.T. Theologian alive today. Carson has published over 50 books and this week I read one of his latest books: Christ and Culture Revisited (April 2008) and I highly recommend this book! D.A. Carson revisits H. Ric...
Tags: D.A. Carson, Don Carson, H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture Revisited, Christ and Culture, Postmodernism, Modernism, Thomas Jefferson, The Jefferson Bible, Separation of Church and State, Establishment Clause, Calvinism, Just War, Caesar, Jesus

January 5, 2009 11:03am

I read Genesis 4-6 today and recalled all the people who told me that the Nephilim were superhuman giants that were created before the Flood when angels (or demons) came to earth and had sex with women. I have faith in a literal interpretation of Gen...
Tags: speculation, sons of God, antediluvian, seth, cain, abel, noah, enosh, enoch, lamech, peor, sons of God, daughters of Men

October 7, 2008 5:29pm

I highly recommend Ford Lewis Battle's translation of John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. Battle's rich vocabulary and eloquent sentences keeps the pages turning through this heavy 1800 page, four book masterpiece. See my introduction...
Tags: Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Book I : Of The Knowledge of God the Creator, Servetus, Plato, Cicero, Epicureans, Augustine, Pelagians, Sophists, Ockham, Chrysostom, Origen

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