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
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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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 ...