Jan
23
Last week Tanya and I had the privilege of heading up to Katoomba for a conference entitled NextGen 2012. Basically, imagine 400-500 young Christian men and women who lead youth groups or children’s ministries getting together to think hard about how to read and teach from Scripture. It’s great. In God’s grace over the last …
Sep
27
Interesting thoughts from Broughton Knox on helping families grow in Christ together: “The congregation should nourish the spiritual life and fellowship of the family. For example, up to half-a-dozen leaders should be chosen in each congregation whose first ministry should be to minister to families, i.e. to fathers and mothers, to encourage them to ensure …
Aug
30
Complimenting the successful Catechist production by Steve McGuinness, there is the MTC Filing Cabinet by Jason Au. The Filing Cabinet is a place where different student essays get uploaded and given for public consumption. It’s quite brilliant – Jas has organised the essays into: Doctrine, History, New Testament and Old Testament. They cover topics from …
Jun
23
The cannon ball that fires a devastating blow through the hull of David Bentley Hart’s Doors of the Sea surfaces in one of the questions for our 3rd year Philosophy exam. Hart’s vitriolic reading of the Reformed tradition simply falls over due to this important plank of Reformed theology. In Henri Blocher’s Evil and the …
Jun
12
Well, the CBE International Conference runs with the motto of “Better Together” in 2010 and promises to be a fascinating and challenging time of engaging with God’s Word. Held in Melbourne, Australia, this conference features a star-studded line-up of theologians and experts in various fields, from various backgrounds: Graham Cole, Kevin Giles, Tim Foster, Shane …
Jun
01
This is probably the most theologically sharp article I’ve read in the Briefing for a long time. It concerns the very serious doctrine of hell. Jonny Gibson, a good friend, and constant source of encouragement and theological sharpening, has put together the article for the Briefing. Simply put, I have not read such a biblically …
Jun
01
Oliver Crisp is a name serious evangelical thinkers should know. He’s written some incredibly brilliant books on the Incarnation, and his style of writing is something I greatly appreciate. I really struggle with reading theologians who write such obfuscated prose, and Crisp certainly does not do such. He’s an analytic theologian, who basically means he …
May
31
This is a cracker of a podcast! Punk music, Latin, Skateboarding, Christology, Purple hair, Impassibility, and Haggis – all in one episode! Seumas MacDonald, a great bloke whom I’m had the pleasure of meeting recently joins us on this podcast. Seumas is currently undertaking his MTh at Moore Theological College and is putting his Latin …
May
30
(h/t: Ben Myers) These are a classic. Kim Fabricius and Ben Myers have put together some simply hilarious poetical guides to modern theology. Here’s just a few samples. Go and check the origin post out! Reminds me of the Critters and Creatures of the Theological Kingdom I blogged about a while ago! Also, here. Karl …
May
18
John Frame writes the following: “It is a bit surprising that the name of Moise Amyraut (Latin form Amyraldus; hence “Amyraldianism”) is not better known in a time such as ours when so many evangelical Christians want to be known as “four point Calvinists.” Many, indeed, in our time seem to want to say (a) that …
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