Category Archives: theology

Theology is the study of God. This is where everything that theological goes. In other words bible, systematic, and apologetics stuff.

give up your resolutions

Posted on by Will
1

I gave up doing New Year’s Resolutions about three years ago because I never kept them and ended up condemning myself for my “failure”. I hope you will give up yours too and exchange resolutions for goals. Every year I do try to set a goal for what I hope God will do in my life that year. What’s the difference? One is about making much of me. The other is about God making much of himself through me. New Year’s resolutions are generally started with the best of intentions and never fulfilled. I try to listen and wait on God to see what he’s going to do each new year. Why? He’s faithful, even when I am not (maybe especially when I am not). I also change during that period. If it’s his will, it will happen. If not, no biggie. It’s a win, win. Continue reading →

Dr. Mohler & Evolution

Posted on by Will
Reply

My friend Jace Murray passed on an article to me about Dr. Mohler (which my iPad continually wants to autocorrect to mohair) writing on evolution. Mohler writes collectively against all forms of evolution with it’s supposed assault on the gospel. The central problem with Mohler’s thesis is his confusing all evolutionary theory as Darwinianism, which is incorrect. It oversimplifies the argument.

The Biologos crowd would clearly refute this as do the majority of theistic evolutionists. I think this is unhelpful for the debate between those who hold that the Christian scripture to be true and try to reconcile what science has discovered. Theistic evolutionist believe that there is no dichotomy between Scripture and science. Additionally Genesis 1 does not spell out that creation has not ever used evolutionary processes as part of God’s creative act or process. The Scripture is indeed infallible, it’s readers on the other hand are not.
Continue reading →

Faith

Posted on by Will
3

“Faith is a living, unshakeable confidence in God’s grace; it is so certain, that someone would die a thousand times for it.

This kind of trust in and knowledge of God’s grace makes a person joyful, confident, and happy with regard to God and all creatures. Continue reading →

poetry: Love & Hate

Posted on by Will
Reply

*There are times I so badly want to hate. I wrote this to remind myself I’m called to a different standard. I wrote it so each line read from the top to bottom reminds us we must contrast love with hate. Hate never ultimately wins. When you read it from the bottom to the top it reminds us we must end in patience and at the heart of it all is that love never fails.

Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love envies not.
Love does not boast.
Love is not proud. Continue reading →

Theology of Universal Healthcare

Posted on by Will
1

This is post 2 of 2 on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act.

I am discouraged at the passing of this bill but I know that God will bring good from it for his people. God works all things together for good for those called according to his purposes. See Romans 8. Grace is at work even in horrible healthcare bills that will have lasting negative reprecussions. See my prior blog for a few of those.

The Jewish scriptures are filled with stories of contrast. One of the earliest is that of humanity after the Great Flood. Regardless if you take the story as universal, regional, or moral the story in Genesis 11 is applicable and has a moral lesson for our current age. Continue reading →

Creation of Lent as Pictorial & Memorial

Posted on by Will
Reply

This is part three in a brief series on Lent.

The question the Radical Reformers during the Reformation began to ask was the creation of Christian holidays (holy days) a biblical practice? They answered no. They were partially right. They were also partially wrong. Strictly speaking the Christian calendar is not biblical in that it is not directly mentioned or prescribed as a practice in the Bible. This does not mean that it does not have biblical precedent or biblical blessing. Continue reading →