"Jesus asked at the Last Supper, 'Who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines a...

Catholic theology is centered on "the Church". Catholics try to co-opt discussions about the church. The church is less central t...

The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favor to men of...

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1. Freewill theists say faith is the empty hand that grasps the offer of salvation. Faith is not a product of saving grace; rather, saving ...

"Advice is counsel about what you must do. News is a report about what has already been done. Advice urges you to make something happen...

When Protestants think of the various topics or loci that comprise the various systems of “systematic theology” that have been studied over...

Creation and Grace Stephen Wolfe makes this argument: If Protestants want to reject modernity, then they ought to reject the nominalist...

"Death with dignity" is one of the popular euphemisms used to defend euthanasia. In one sense, proponents are correct. The aging...

I believe that true love never kidnaps, and never forces itself on another…Love must always be chosen.  http://www.patheos.com/blogs/for...

I'm going to briefly comment on this post: http://heidelblog.net/2014/05/faith-alone-is-the-instrument-of-justification-and-salvatio...

A week ago, I noted the discussion between Tullian Tchividjian and Rick Phillips (TCG vs Ref21) on sanctification. This week, Tchividjian r...

Justification by God’s costly grace involves the justification of the sinner, not the justification of the sin. Following up on the first ...

In his formerly world-renowned book “The Cost of Discipleship” (New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. edition, printed 1963), Dietric...

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be immersed, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus the Messiah, on the basis of the forgiveness of sins…”...

Salvation is all grace. Bavinck begins his discussion of “The Scriptural View of Salvation” (pgs 491 ff.) noting that “In the Old Testame...

Several weeks ago, I went round and round with some of gang at Called to Communion on the topic of Grace in the New Testament. Grace in th...

A number of the comments at the Green Baggins thread on the Papacy have turned to “evidence in the second and third centuries”. I’ve written...

Just for the sake of clarification, with this series of posts on 1 Clement , I’m attempting to build the type of case that Cullmann talked a...