What Is The Future Of Evangelicalism?

What is “Evangelicalism”? Who gets to claim the title? Does it have a future?
Drawing from the insights of an article written by Dr. Mike Horton back in 2001 that attempted to answer these very same questions, I attempt to show that there is no longer a meaningful doctrinal “core” to Evangelicalism and that [...]

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A Word To The Calvinist: Arminians Are People Too!

 Saint Augustine is well known for (primarily) three things:  His intimate Confessions, his majestic City Of God, and his heated debate with Pelagius.  It is in this debate that Augustine’s positions on Predestination and Perseverence of the Saints (eternal security) finds its final and strongest articulation (1000 years before Calvin!).
Pelagius, thanks largely to the tireless [...]

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(Mis)Understanding Sola Scriptura

The Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura, simply put, is the belief that the Bible, the Word of God alone is the final authority in all matters of Christian faith and practice.  Where Popes or church councils have seemed to violate the plain meaning of Scripture on these matters, it is Scripture alone that has the [...]

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This Is My Body: Part Two

This second post will give a brief overview of the three remaining positions on the Lord’s Supper: Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed.  The third and final post will be my critique of the four positions, as well as my argument for which position I believe is the best (most biblical) one.

Roman Catholic

I place the Roman Catholic [...]

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This Is My Body: Part One

(Note: The following post was adapted from a paper I wrote for a Theology class. As such, much of its descriptions of different theological viewpoints are painted with very broad strokes. Still, I tried to keep them as accurate as possible)
If you stopped random evangelicals on the street and asked them what the [...]

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A Brief Defense Of The Gospels

And when I say brief, I do mean brief.
In fact, I only wish to deal with a single issue, which will serve to illustrate a broader point.
It was suggested in an earlier discussion by an interlocutor named hokku (click here) that the many discrepancies between the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) show beyond any [...]

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Evolving Art And Christian Worship

No one really disputes evolution. What is disputed is the yet unobserved postulation that a mutant fish will sprout legs and somehow give birth to a whole new species by random luck. Actual, observable evolution is not really a point of contention. And evolution takes place outside of the biological realm. [...]

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Prayers For Easter Sunday

Here are the prayers for Easter Sunday!
From the Lutheran Book of Prayer:
O almighty and eternal God, who through the death of Your Son has destroyed sin and death, and by His rising to life again restored innocence and everlasting life, that being delivered from the power of the devil, I might live under You in [...]

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Prayers For Saturday

Here are the prayers for Holy Saturday.
From the Lutheran Book of Prayer:
Heavenly Father, I am silenced at the gave of Your Son, who knew no sin, yet was made sin for us. You permitted Him to die, exchanging His innocence for our guilt. In love He came to save us, but He was [...]

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Prayers For Good Friday

Here are the prayers for Good Friday! My apologies for putting them up so late!
From the Lutheran Book of Prayer:
O Christ, Lamb of God, slain for the sin of the whole world, with penitent heart I come to your cross, pleading for mercy and forgiveness. My sins – and they are many – [...]

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