Prayer… The Forgotten Essentials of Doing Theology: Prayer 27 Dec 201214 Jan 2015 It is extremely easy to make the discipline of doing theology all about us. We can rob God of the glory in theological study by doing it in such away…
Missional… The Forgotten Essentials of Doing Theology: Service 20 Dec 201229 Dec 2012 "God judges our theology faithful or false by our attitudes and responses to those in need." - Kelly Kapic That quote will seem unsettling to many of us. To some…
Theology The Forgotten Essentials of Doing Theology: Life Application 13 Dec 201214 Dec 2012 If your theology isn't applied then you haven't done theology. I agree with Dr. John Frame when he says that theology is the application of the Word of God to…
Theology The Forgotten Essentials for Doing Theology: Humility 6 Dec 20128 Dec 2012 Is it arrogant to make statements about God? Some certainly believe that it is. They argue that we can know nothing for certain about God, because, after all, God is…
Theology The Forgotten Essentials of Doing Theology 29 Nov 201230 Nov 2012 We are all theologians, the question we must ask of ourselves is are we good ones. How we do theology is an extremely important matter. I have often reflected on…
Books… The Overlooked Principles: A Review of “A Little Book for New Theologians” by Kelly Kapic 26 Nov 201227 Nov 2012 The fact that "theology" gets such a bad wrap within the church may be owing more to the theologian than the subject itself. You see doing theology well depends on being…
Theology I Grow Weary of “Enlightened” Postmoderns 17 Oct 201218 Oct 2012 Arrogance is particularly unattractive when it is accompanied by hypocrisy. There's much about postmodernism that is worth commending. It's chastening of the arrogance of modernism, for starters. But many of…
Books… Reflections on Systematics 24 Sep 201225 Sep 2012 Active reading is a necessity in theological reflection. In order to make sure that we are being faithful to the Scriptures we must make sure that we are not allowing…
Culture… A Theology for Hipsters: A Theology of Culture (Part 4) 9 Aug 201210 Aug 2012 Christ and Culture Questions about how Christians should relate to the culture around them have been around as long as the church has, so this is not arbitrary issue. It…
Sex… A Theology of Sex: Lust and Modesty 1 Aug 20122 Aug 2012 Responsibility isn't popular, blame-shifting is. In our therapeutic culture nothing is ever an issue of personal responsibility, we are always the victims. In the area of lust this is evidently…