What Are Baptist Associations For?
No early Baptist thought of autonomy apart from associationalism. We should be careful not to import our modern assumptions back into Baptist history.
4 Lessons for the Church From the FIFA World Cup
If soccer can bring together women and men, girls and boys from such diverse settings and backgrounds, how much more glorious is the bond that makes us one in Christ.
Do not Be Conformed to Virus Culture
The Gospel of Jesus Christ sums up the centre of Christianity. Our unity around the Gospel transcends all terrestrial loyalties. And yet I wonder if we have allowed patterns of thinking to influence our minds that do not match our confession of the Gospel. Has our virus culture made us less in touch with what unites us? I think it might have in at least three ways. First, we divide over our vaccine status The Gospel not only reconciles us to God it also transforms human relationships. Since Jesus humbled himself out of love for humanity, we must then “Do...
Episode 29: John Calvin on the True Church (Inst. 4.1)
In this episode, Ian and Wyatt discuss John Calvin’s view of the true church. We also talk about his charitable judgment of other Christians and how allergic he was to schism. The Calvin we find here differs from our impressions of him (perhaps). Here, he advises against an “ill-advised zeal for righteousness” and advocates for charitably judging each other.
An Optical Conclusion
Years ago, one of our daughters was struggling in a high school math class. Employing a tutor to assist her, we came to discover something very important – she couldn’t easily distinguish between an addition and a division sign. Turns out, that’s important. You see, she had sustained a couple of concussions by then and we weren’t aware of how much her vision had been affected. So off we went to correct the fuzzy vision. The awkward phoropter. The satisfying series of clicks. The wishing she remembered a breath mint. The ultimate delight of squint-free clarity and the wildly helpful...
