While reading through Hearers and Doers by Kevin Vanhoozer, I was reminded of Jonathon Edwards On Knowing Christ where he says, If God have made it the business of some to be teachers, it will […]
Author: Adam Bennett
I write what I want. Which might be a bad idea. Nonetheless...
A Bipolar Christian: Part One
My brain hurts, though not physically; it’s rather that sort of existential fear that paralyzes and pains in its intensity. I’ll sit down in front of my keyboard with every intention of writing some snippet of witty […]
It Is A Gracious and Loving Father They Need To Know
Confessional orthodoxy coupled with a view of a heavenly Father whose love is conditioned on his Son’s suffering, and further conditioned by our repentance, leads inevitably to a restriction in the preaching of the gospel. […]
Facebook Is Not For Kids
Many parents, like myself I imagine, are leery of their children growing up. And at this point in our world, at least in America, growing up means more than hormones, the opposite sex and the […]
Assured Though Ill
I remember sitting in a psychiatric hospital so spun I could barely stay awake, let alone be contemplative, yet never once did a denial of my heavenly Father enter my mind. I never lost sight […]
Who’s Afraid of Empathy?
Are we a society of narcissists? Without a doubt. And are we a people afraid of guilt and shame? More than most. Would we rather commiserate with our own misery than take the outstretched hand […]
Humility With A Sledgehammer
My wife recently said something to me I, in my often navel gazing regarding mental and spiritual issues, had either disregarded or never entertained. She pointed out that for her, living with my mental illness […]
Who Owns the Future?
As a definition, this take on what it means to be a “progressive” takes the wind out of the sails of social liberals, challenging their claim that, in tattooing “progressivism” across their chests, they own […]
The Free Offer
Therefore, God his creator having pity on him, has loved the world, that he has given his only son Jesus Christ, for mediator, patron, advocate, and intercessor between him and man, to reconcile them to him, even when they […]
Gaining Traction in a Slippery World
If the practice of catechizing our children, and congregations, is a fundamental answer of how we may teach our children to be in the world with succumbing to the impulses and views of the world, […]
Trinity In Prayer
Almighty and everlasting God, you have given to us your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of your divine Majesty […]
Trying To Gain Traction In A Slippery World
What happens when moral distinctions slowly disappear? More precisely, what happens when categories of decency and deviancy collapse into each other? What happens to a culture that adopts our actions as our identities and by […]
The Comfort of the Christian
1. Q. What is your only comfort in life and[…]
The Means Of Grace
The emblems of this mystery are the bread and wine through which theLord holds out to us the true communication of his body and blood. We are talking of spiritual communion, which is effected by […]
