Deep Discipleship For Dark Days

“Paul Dirks’ book helps expose the seismic shifts taking place in our increasingly antichrist culture, while providing the reader with hope filled and tangible responses to the darkness of our age.” 
–Aaron Rock

Release scheduled for October, 2023

PAUL DIRKS

Is There Anything Good About Hell?

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WOMAN Means Something

Begun in response to Bill C-16, the WOMAN Means Something campaign highlights women’s sex-based rights in Canada centering around their privacy rights and protections.

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Creative Work

Fantasy fiction, board games, electronic music. Just a few things…

Systematic Theology

Poythress, Mystery of the Trinity: Technical Terms

Poythress, Mystery of the Trinity: Technical Terms

Chapters 17 and 18 cover technical language, expanding on one of three styles of speech in Scripture used to describe God and his attributes. Anthropomorphic language (speaks, loves, ...
Frame, Systematic Theology: Regeneration and Infants

Frame, Systematic Theology: Regeneration and Infants

Regarding regenerate infants within Frame's paedobaptistic understanding, there would seem to be a weakness regarding what he has already said. Frame recognizes that, considering 1 Peter1:23 and James ...
Frame, Systematic Theology: Regeneration and the Ordo

Frame, Systematic Theology: Regeneration and the Ordo

Frame's views on regeneration emphasize his view that the ordo salutis is not clearly linear. His triad on salvation (fig. 43:1) is: Justification Regeneration/Conversion/Sanctification Adoption Thus he is ...
Frame, Systematic Theology: Jealousy and Anger

Frame, Systematic Theology: Jealousy and Anger

To my knowledge, Scripture never presents jealousy as a negative trait. (p268) God’s jealousy is for his great name in Ezekiel 39:25. For his name’s sake he will ...

Biblical Theology & Scripture Notes

Schreiner, The King in His Beauty: Leviticus

Schreiner, The King in His Beauty: Leviticus

Mostly quotes below in a good and relatively thorough chapter on Leviticus. The only thing I thought missing was the insight that some authors, especially James Jordan and ...
Schreiner, The King in His Beauty: Exodus

Schreiner, The King in His Beauty: Exodus

Moses' greatness stems not from his own inner strength but rather from his recognition that without God he could do nothing. Only God could save Israel from their ...
Schreiner, King in His Beauty: Genesis

Schreiner, King in His Beauty: Genesis

I am taking a break from Kostenberger's Biblical Theology, and am starting on Thomas Schreiner's, called The King in His Beauty. Interesting, it has no introduction, highly unusual ...
Kostenberger, Biblical Theology: Latter Prophets

Kostenberger, Biblical Theology: Latter Prophets

Given the regular picture of the nations streaming to Zion (e.g. Mic. 4:1-3; Zech. 8:20-23), the pilgrimage of the queen of Sheba to Solomon may also have influenced ...

History

Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events

Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events

Freaks of Fanaticism is a book I pulled off the shelf at SFU while doing some perusing on mythology and symbolism in literature. Full disclosure is that I ...
Martin Bucer Biography

Martin Bucer Biography

I am no longer surprised that there are excellent Christian books in larger, secular libraries. I have long been interested in Martin Bucer, along with Luther and Melancthon, ...
Toon, Puritan Eschatology II

Toon, Puritan Eschatology II

I read Puritan Eschatology, edited by Peter Toon, over the course of a couple weeks while on vacation and found it enjoyable. Although I wouldn't say that the ...
Toon, Puritan Eschatology I

Toon, Puritan Eschatology I

Puritan Eschatology, the name on the spine of a collection of essays on the subject (although see the citation above), edited by Peter Toon, is a book I ...

Odds & Ends

Video 3D Model of Herod's Temple

Video 3D Model of Herod’s Temple

This is a phenomenal project, worth four minutes of your time. After almost two years working on this project it is finally finished; Herod's Temple Mount. Journey back ...
The Value of the Christian and Eternal Union with Christ

The Value of the Christian and Eternal Union with Christ

I was reminded in conversation recently how trauma, especially childhood trauma, can lead to a deep and lasting sense of worthlessness. In the Reformed tradition, there is an ...
Some Small Criticisms of the Gospel-Centered Sermon

Some Small Criticisms of the Gospel-Centered Sermon

Recently, I re-tweeted a small thread of ideas from a brother which echoed almost perfectly my own views, including some subtle criticisms of a method of sermon preparation ...
Augustine, On the Gift of Perseverance: A few quotes

Augustine, On the Gift of Perseverance: A few quotes

For there are three points, as you know, which the catholic Church chiefly maintains against them. One of these is, that the grace of God is not given ...

Trinity & Triads

Poythress, Mystery of the Trinity: Technical Terms

Poythress, Mystery of the Trinity: Technical Terms

Chapters 17 and 18 cover technical language, expanding on one of three styles of speech in Scripture used to describe God and his attributes. Anthropomorphic language (speaks, loves, ...
The Male-Female Relationship as a Mediatorial Triad

The Male-Female Relationship as a Mediatorial Triad

The relations between man and female form a mediatory triad. Like the creation of the heavens, the first remark about man’s creation (as male and female) is that ...
Schreiner, King in His Beauty: Genesis

Schreiner, King in His Beauty: Genesis

I am taking a break from Kostenberger's Biblical Theology, and am starting on Thomas Schreiner's, called The King in His Beauty. Interesting, it has no introduction, highly unusual ...
The Value of the Christian and Eternal Union with Christ

The Value of the Christian and Eternal Union with Christ

I was reminded in conversation recently how trauma, especially childhood trauma, can lead to a deep and lasting sense of worthlessness. In the Reformed tradition, there is an ...