Baptist Elder and BHT Fellow Bill Mackinnon has written some of the most interesting and provocative essays ever to appear at InternetMonk.com. That tradition continues as Bill asks some inevitable questions raised by Southwestern Seminary President Paige Patterson’s interpretation of I Timothy 2:12. Welcome to the stage, Professor Mackinnon. Certain portions of the internet areContinue reading “10 Questions for Complementarians by Bill Mackinnon”
Category Archives: Theologia
Thoughts on Spiritual Experience
I’ve been involved in some good discussions recently on the role of subjective, personal spiritual experiences. How should we deal with personal experiences of God “speaking” or otherwise relating to Christians on the subjective levels of feeling and sensing? Because there is such abuse and misuse in this area, it’s very easy to create aContinue reading “Thoughts on Spiritual Experience”
iMonk 101: Our Problem With Grace
One of my all time favorite Internet Monk essays is this one: “Our Problem with Grace.” If you know my admiration for the writing of Robert Capon, you’ll recognize his influence on this piece. I’m convinced that grace is one of the most difficult concepts for Christians to live with and live by. But ifContinue reading “iMonk 101: Our Problem With Grace”
Don’t Waste Your Missional Calling
These Lives and Deaths Were No Tragedy In April 2000, Ruby Eliason and Laura Edwards were killed in Cameroon, West Africa. Ruby was over eighty. Single all her life, she poured it out for one great thing: to make Jesus Christ known among the unreached, the poor, and the sick. Laura was a widow, aContinue reading “Don’t Waste Your Missional Calling”
A Crowd of Witnesses
One of these days I am going to write a tribute post to the wonderful reformed historian and biographer, Iain Murray. Murray has created a legacy of something we desperately need in Christianity: the lives of the “saints” that surround us on the journey. That’s a valuable and powerful gift to the church. Consider howContinue reading “A Crowd of Witnesses”
Passive or Passionate?: Francis Chan and the God of the Gospel Offer
UPDATE: Kiwi and an Emu has some thoughts. UPDATE II: Frank Turk has some outstanding thoughts on this topic, plus a great Spurgeon quote. This is a dialog that will be very helpful to many SBC leaders wondering if Calvinism is the anti-missions theology they’ve been told it is. UPDATE III: Frank keeps it upContinue reading “Passive or Passionate?: Francis Chan and the God of the Gospel Offer”
Books Worth Reading in 2007
UPDATE: What if the TR watchbloggers fisked this post for orthodoxy? It might look like this. I am frequently challenged in comments around here to come up with some kind of a book list. I’ve published a list of authors before, but never a list of books that I would recommend. The reasons became evidentContinue reading “Books Worth Reading in 2007”
Christmas Eve 2006: A World Just Beyond Our Grasp
It is traditional for me to post something about Christmas. The following is adapted from a sermon preached at a local Baptist Church, December 24, 11:00 a.m. 2006. A Christ-filled, joyous Christmas to all my Internet Monk readers.. A World Just Beyond Our Grasp. (Luke 1:46-55; Hebrews 10:4-10) At the Spencer household, Christmas traditions areContinue reading “Christmas Eve 2006: A World Just Beyond Our Grasp”
The Third Week of Advent: The Unlikely Outrage of the Gospel of Light
This is a sermon written for the third week of Advent. It’s expanded from a talk I gave at soli deo, Tuesday, January 19th. For a complete and substantial response to Sam Harris’s book, Letters to a Christian Nation, see Douglas Wilson’s excellent series “Letters To Mr. Harris.” (Archived here, earliest one at the endContinue reading “The Third Week of Advent: The Unlikely Outrage of the Gospel of Light”
A Pointed Question: Why Not Rather Suffer Wrong?
(The following post is a summary of a recent chapel message. I originally thought of the message after hearing C.J. Mahaney teach on the passage. My use in chapel and here is my own, but I acknowledge his excellent exposition and application as my starting point.) I Corinthians 6:1 When one of you has aContinue reading “A Pointed Question: Why Not Rather Suffer Wrong?”
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