Chapter 2 of John Mark’s Remarkable Career—Relation and Position in the Church at Jerusalem (Acts 12:12) We left John Mark huddled in his home in Jerusalem. We discover him again in the same exact location about twelve years later. Not only is the place the...
The Remarkable Career of John Mark and What It Says Especially To Pastors and Pastoral Students: Pt. 2 – His Probable and Improbable Escapade as a Young Man (Mark 14:51-52)
His Probable and Improbable Escapade as a Young Man (Mark 14:51-52) Look first at Mark 14:51-52: “A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked.” The...
The Remarkable Career of John Mark And What it Says Especially to Pastors & Pastoral Students: Pt. 1 – The Bible Tells Stories About People
The Bible Tells Stories About People One of the special things about the Bible is that it tells stories—stories not just about God, but about human beings. This makes it much more interesting actually than the Koran which simply provides saying after saying and is in...
The Private Rebuke
In a previous post the subject of church discipline was considered and 6 introductory observations were given. In this post, step 1 of seeking forgiveness will be considered: The private individual rebuke. You can find the first post in the series here. Matthew 18:15...
Church Discipline: The Way of Forgiveness
The Bible teaches us that holiness is one of the major marks of a true church. The church’s holiness is based off the great command found in Leviticus 19:2, “You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.” And the church’s holiness is the...
Presuppositional Ponderings after Reading Thomas Aquinas, Whole Series
After Reading Aquinas! “Everyone” knows that recently there has been quite a furor created by the claims of J. V. Fesko (Reforming Apologetics—Retrieving the Classical Reformed Approach to Defending the Faith), Keith Mathison (Christianity and Van...
Presuppositional Ponderings after Reading Thomas Aquinas, part 7
Calvin and Aquinas Contrasted Yet More! Fourth, there is a very different view of the usefulness of philosophy espoused by Thomas in contrast to Calvin. Thomas cites with admiration “the philosopher,” Aristotle, throughout his works and certainly in his...
Presuppositional Ponderings after Reading Thomas Aquinas, part 6
More Contrasts between Calvin and Aquinas! Second, Calvin emphasizes explicitly and repeatedly the effect of the fall on man’s knowledge of God. Though men have a naturally implanted knowledge of God given to them by and in creation, this knowledge never...
Presuppositional Ponderings after Reading Thomas Aquinas, part 5
Calvin and Aquinas Contrasted Richard Muller is well-known for books like Unaccommodated Calvin. I had to read that book back in the days when I was studying for my PhD. Muller’s point (or at least one of his main points) was that the contrast between...
Presuppositional Ponderings after Reading Thomas Aquinas, part 4
They Just Keep Missing the Point In my view those currently attacking Van Til and presuppositionalism are engaged in a gigantic enterprise of missing the point. They keep interpreting Romans 1:18-23 wrongly, over and over and again and again! To put it differently,...
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