Category Archives: Theologia

Christ: The Meeting Place

He became the reconciling place where opposites met. He was the meeting place of God and man. Man the aspiring and God the inspiring meet in Him. Heaven and earth came together and are forever reconciled. The material and the spiritual after their long divorce have in Him found their reconciliation. The natural and theContinue reading “Christ: The Meeting Place”

A Lesson From St. Jack: Holding on to All Things

“He demonstrated for me and convinced me that rigorous, precise, penetrating logic is not opposed to deep, soul-stirring feeling and vivid, lively- even playful- imagination. He was a “romantic rationalist.” He combined things that almost everybody today assumes are mutually exclusive: rationalism and poetry, cool logic and warm feeling, disciplined prose and free imagination. InContinue reading “A Lesson From St. Jack: Holding on to All Things”

That Silly Question and The “Truth War”

John Macarthur has a new book called “The Truth War.” This article is not a review or a critique of that book. I haven’t read any more than a brief summary chapter published at “Pulpit” blog. In fact, I’m not quite sure why I mentioned the book at all. Probably to attract readers who willContinue reading “That Silly Question and The “Truth War””

Real Ministry…Not the Ad

II Corinthians 6:3 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, 4 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; 6 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the HolyContinue reading “Real Ministry…Not the Ad”

The Final Deposition: Pilate and the Cynicism of Contemporary Truth Seeking

(Some of the material in this essay was inspired by reading John’s Wisdom by Ben Witherington III, Westminster John Knox Press , 1995.) For the past two years, I’ve been leading a weekly adult Bible study on the Gospel of John for my fellow OBI staff members. For the past three weeks, we’ve been inContinue reading “The Final Deposition: Pilate and the Cynicism of Contemporary Truth Seeking”

Karl Barth Links

Some links on Karl Barth. Those who are forever explaining me to their loyal readership should know this: I rarely disagree with Barth, and whatever names you have for him probably apply to me without exception on my part. (Other than “Lutheran.”) Must Read: Kim Fabricius: Ten Propositions on Karl Barth: Theologian. Coming Soon: KarlContinue reading “Karl Barth Links”

For The One With the Sad Eyes

I gave up reading the blogs and MySpaces of our students this year because they weren’t having a good effect on me. Without sounding arrogant, I’ve heard it all before, and the personal references to my school, my friends, my fellow teachers and my life’s mission weren’t giving me any motivations or insights that trulyContinue reading “For The One With the Sad Eyes”

The One and Only: Remembering that all those other books aren’t the Bible, or even all that close.

This is a corrective for me most of all, so don’t write me and say “What about Capon and Wright blah blah blah?” I’m already there. “For evangelical people, our authority is the God who has spoken supremely in Jesus Christ. And that is equally true of redemption or salvation. God has acted in andContinue reading “The One and Only: Remembering that all those other books aren’t the Bible, or even all that close.”