Doug’s Theological Thoughts

Homeschooling is a movement which is growing quickly in the United States. The Covenant Companion (published by the Evangelical Covenant Church) ran an article on Homeschooling. Twenty years ago there were very few homeschoolers. Now there are more than a million homeschooled kids. See the Homeschool Legal Defense Association website for information about homeschooling. For…

The Evangelical Covenant Church has a fairly unique practice when it comes to baptism. Covenant Churches practice both believer and infant baptism. (The Confederation of Reformed Evangelicals also has the practice, but they are quite small.) Local churches may prefer to operate in one mode or the other but Covenant pastors are required to baptize…

In yet another front of the raging culture wars, the Southern Baptist Convention has a proposal that its members withdraw their children from public schooling. If this clears the Resolution Committee, this would take the form of a resolution to the Convention. Home school or private Christian schooling is given as the means of education…

At church we been learning about the Love of God for this past semester. Today, we talked about what God hates. There are a lot of passages which talk about how God hates sin. We are familiar with many of them. The Psalms are full of them. In the Psalms, sin is understood as falling…

Today I am looking at the baptism of John and the TULIP of the Calvinists. These verses seem problematic to the Calvinistic position with respect to the I in the TULIP: Luke 7:29-30 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. But the Pharisees…

Gary North has an interesting article (from 2001) on the history and future of education. North’s tracks three stages of economic theory which he applies to education. These are: oligarchic/autarchic, the democratic, and the individualistic stages. In the oligarchic stage only the children of the rich afford an education. In the democractic stage, the rich…

N. T. Wright is the Anglican ishop of Durham, England. Wright was interviewed by the National Catholic Reporter on various social issues including ordination of homosexuals, abortion on demand, ordination of women, and the current international crisis in the Anglican Church caused by the ordination of a homosexual priest. Wright even weighs in on the…

There are a number of people out “there” who call themselves Reformed Baptists. They are Calvinists, hence the part of the title, Reformed. They also hold to adult baptism only, hence they are Baptists. Where they run into trouble is when they try to show that the two systems are compatible. Historically, the Reformed rejected…

Interesting blog on Hauerwas and the Bible Gestapo. After reading Hauerwas in seminary and in the process acquiring a critical dislike for the contents of his writing, this critique comes as a breath of fresh air. The inconsistencies of Hauerwas are equally invisible to his disciples and obvious to his critics. Hauerwas is an advocate…

Is forgiveness contingent upon repentance? If God forgives based on repentance, should we also forgive based on repentance? Or should we forgive even where the other person refuses to repent? On first thought, the idea that we need to always forgive regardless of whether the other person repents seems right but does it stand up…

How about a discussion of the love that the members of the Trinity have for each other? Doug

I just read the first half of N. T. Wright’s book, The Resurrection of the Son of God which is a defense of the historical view of the resurrection of Christ. The book also defends the historical view of the resurrection of the believer. Wright makes a compelling case for the physicality of the resurrection…

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