Clear as mud?
February 18, 2013 § Leave a comment
I apologize for the confusion that resulted from my last post. I did not make clear that, once you went to the brief post at Reformation21 by Carl Trueman, you were to click the link to the Reformed Baptist Fellowship site that features the post by Richard Barcellos. Here is that link!
Jesus, Personal Lord and Savior
February 15, 2013 § 3 Comments
I have always been bothered by many of my Reformed and Covenantal peers’ contempt for the term “receiving Jesus as personal Lord and Savior.” I am well aware that many who use this phrase have absolutely no ecclesiology to speak of and have so privatized their faith that, in their minds, there is no such thing as a “capital C” Church. What all too often emerges in this criticism, however, is a reactionary, man-made doctrine of corporate salvation that is, in my reading of Scripture, far more dangerous than the individualism that typifies most of those who are broadly evangelical. It is yet another willingly opened chute that slides back to the very theological darkness upon which the Reformation shone the light of truth.
2012 Commencement Homily for Trinitas Christian School
June 11, 2012 § 1 Comment
On May 25, for the second year in a row, I was privileged to share the rostrum with Rev. Uri Brito, each of us delivering a “tag” commencement homily for the graduating class. Our text this year was Hebrews 12; my portion covered the first 17 verses but I primarily focused on the first two. My title was “Run!”
Graduates, tonight we rightly congratulate and honor you for your successful achievement. Twelve-plus years of cultivating hard and diligent work have borne fruit—and because the hardworking farmer has the right to enjoy the fruit of his labor, I earnestly hope that tonight and in the coming days and weeks you will feast with satisfaction and gratitude upon this harvest.
But it’s not over. Not by a long shot. In fact, in some ways it is really just beginning. By “it” I don’t mean college, per se—and you are going to probably think this sounds sentimental and clichéic—but what I mean to say is really just beginning for you is the race of life.
Now, I hate sentimentality more than anyone—but I hate it most in sermons and things like commencement homilies. « Read the rest of this entry »
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