Jim Orrick is a professor at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as the author of A Year with George Herbert: A Guide to Fifty-Two of His Best Loved Poems. Why is Mere Calvinism an important work? Mere Calvinism is the most helpful and accessible book on the Doctrines of Grace. Everyone can read this …
Tag: Relationships
Offices of Christ
By Evan Knies A few Sunday nights ago, we walked through this study with our students. These notes are adapted from Wayne Grudem's Systematic. There were three major offices among the people of Israel in the Old Testament: the prophet (Nathan, 2 Sam. 7:2), priest (Abiathar, 1 Sam. 30:7), and king (David, 2 Sam. 5:3). In …
New Year Mercies
By Evan Knies The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. - Lamentations 3:22-23 This year has been tough to say the least. My family has had some trials. My wife's family has had some trials. At the end …
Building Faith & Counting Costs: The Cost of Discipleship in a Society that Takes Faith for Granted
By David Brown For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? (Luke 14:28) In his excellent commentary on Luke’s Gospel New Testament scholar David E. Garland wrote: “ Many who come to …
Donald Trump and the Evangelical Vote
By Obbie Todd For years scholars have debated the validity of “secularization theory,” the idea that, as society progresses, religion will irrevocably lose its authority in the public square and in society as a whole. In his monumental work A Secular Age (2007), philosopher Charles Taylor described this view as the “disenchanting” of the world …
The King’s Table 