On Whether the Church Is In Exile To think of the Church as a people perpetually in exile is a most grievous confusion. Though it is now popular, especially (perhaps ironically) among Christians of great influence and name recognition, to speak this way, the claim is mostly confused. On the surface perhaps my objection… Read more…

In the beginning, God made man in His image, to be His kings and queens in creation. But man was young and inexperienced. For reasons known only to God, he was dependent on this strange process of learning by observation, reasoning, and abstraction. In order to train man for his royal office and protect him, he was pla… Read more…

Much of James B. Jordan's book Through New Eyes concerns the overall sweep of biblical history and typology. He identifies and defines several periods of redemptive history in a way that I have found very helpful since I was first exposed to it a few years ago. This kind of information is extremely helpful in chart for… Read more…

A key word in the apostolic message of the Gospel is "believe." A common refrain is to "believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," or something similar. Brief thoughts on what this means: Background: John the Baptist and Jesus both show up foretelling imminent judgment on Israel in connection with the comin… Read more…

[As an initial bit of content for this new blog, I'm consolidating a recent series from The Nicene Nerd into a single post here.] The Problem with Wrapping Up As any writer will tell you, it’s hard to bring a good story to an end. No proof of this should be necessary; TV has enough examples. Look what happened to Lost,… Read more…