These are the free, public, and downloadable commentaries of John Calvin: John 1-11 John 12-21 Acts 1-13 Acts 14-28 1 Corinthians 1-14 1 Corinthians 15-2 Corinthians 13 I am indebted to those who made it possible for me to find these resources at no cost to myself. They have been the most tremendous of blessingsContinue reading “Calvin’s Commentaries”
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The Works of Jonathan Edwards
These are some free, public, and downloadable books by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758). I am indebted to those who made it possible for me to find these resources at no cost to myself. They have been the most tremendous of blessings to me, and it is my inherited privilege to pass them on here. Soli DeoContinue reading “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”
True Friendship in Real Hardship
John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative Love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the circle feels, in his secret heart, humbled before all the rest. Sometimes he wonders whatContinue reading “True Friendship in Real Hardship”
In This Present Tyranny
In the course of a rising Tyranny, whether in a government or in an organization, there comes a time when freemen must see in their wisdom the ends to which those who would be their Tyrants are using the current course of events as a means of achieving such Tyranny. There comes a time, if Tyranny is to be stopped before it comes to full power, where those who would be the guards to their children’s future security must realize that and understand how the events in their day are being used to further that movement towards Tyranny and away from a hope in God and reliance on Him. There comes a time when the watchmen in their courage must stand and cry that the enemies are already in the gates. Otherwise, Tyranny has already won. For freedom cannot survive without her sight, without her wisdom, without her courage, without her virtue; and without these, what is freedom but a dark cage from which there is no escape? There comes a day in the course of human events when one people declare the causes which impel them to separation from those who would be their Tyrants. What time will that be, America, unless you weigh carefully your present situation today?
A Review of “Global Humility”
I think this book sees the Bible primarily through a man-centric perspective, and does so under an attempt to be humble. This effort involves not having an arrogant ethnocentrism, or judgmental attitude (page 10). The core idea in the book is that reading the Bible (i.e. proper hermeneutics) involves putting on different “cultural lenses” toContinue reading “A Review of “Global Humility””
Atonement and the Satisfaction of God
Outline: When I started to write this, I had just finished a college quiz (and did fairly well at it if I do say so myself), and needed to do a test before I head out to my eight-hour work shift. Yes, the Atonement is something that a college going fast-food worker thinks about inContinue reading “Atonement and the Satisfaction of God”
Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 8–Conclusion
Read Part 1-Introduction, and Part 2-Racism, Hegemony, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality, and Part 3-The Influences of Hegemony, Critical Race Theory, and Intersectionality, and Part 4-Societal Events, and Part 5-The Trinity Creating, and Part 6-Created in the Image of God, and Part 7-New Life, Identity, and Purpose. No longer are people who are reconciled toContinue reading “Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 8–Conclusion”
Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 7–New Life, Identity, and Purpose
God graciously reconciles people to Himself and to each other through His Son, giving them a new life, identity, and a new pursuit in His Son. According to the Triune God, humanities problem of disunity ultimately comes down to individual people’s relationship with Him. “We were made for God—made to share intimately in His life and love—but Genesis 3 ends with Adam cut off from God, dying and driven out of His presence” (Scrivener 78). In Genesis 3, the representatives of the human race, the man who theologians call humanities’ first federal head, Adam (Evangelical Dictionary of Theology), adulterously rebelled against the God who loved them—which is what the Bible calls sin. And this historical event is why every human being has been and is born in alienation from God.
Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 6–Created in the Image of God
God has responded to the disunity in American culture by creating every human being in His own image. According to the three Person God, “oneness is not sameness…” in a perfect world (Strachan, Reenchanting Humanity 207). Humans are created as “significantly different, but genuinely equal” (Mead 30), being made in the image of the Triune God.
Cultural Disunity and the Triune God, Part 5–The Trinity in Creating
God has not made humanity to be divided and hostile, rejoicing in their divisions under the guise of rejoicing in their diversity. God responds to the idea of racism and the reality of racial prejudice at the very foundation of the ideologies which propound them. God did not make many races; He made one united human race. And that one race was meant to rejoice, not in their own diversity, but in the superabundant glory of one God—a God who is overflowingly abundant in His creation.