Resources from 2025
“I don’t care much for all that doctrine; we really need to read the Bible and simply believe in Jesus.”
This is the theological environment that I grew up in. A deep evangelical love for Jesus and the Bible, but a hesitance to define doctrine, clarify issues, or generally speak of the Christian faith in a confessional way. [...]
“Take up thy cross,” thy Lord commands thee,
“Count loss thy gain, and follow Me.”
To leave thy joys He doth demand thee
and love, though hated thou shalt be.
Of the Great Suff’rer’s pain partake
and bear death gladly for His sake. [...]
The following is a translation of pages 516–19 from Louis le Blanc’s Theses Theologicae ... first published in 1683 in London by Moses Pitt. [...]
A word, a vision given in the night:
Among the myrtle, horses snowy-white,
And, with them, standing still, arrayed the same,
A man, with shining face, who knew my name. [...]
Sola recently released a video in which I explore the surprising good news of God's incomprehensibility. In the video, I talk about how we aren't able to wrap our limited minds around our infinite God—though, in our sin, we often try anyway to control him or shrink him down to size. [...]
Of all the requests a human has made of God, none has been more audacious than the plea of Moses to see God’s glory (Exod. 33:18). The reply he received was as strange as the request was bold. The Lord promised instead to reveal his goodness to Moses, but warned him [...]
Time, a lilting sea, does lathe,
And casts off dross and hewn,
The rocks and hills of substance raze,
Batters, but not for ruin [...]
Otto von Bismarck said that a wise man learns from the mistakes of others. This is a task in which books are often invaluable guides. Machen’s Hope: The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princeton exemplifies this principle, offering readers the chance to learn, in just under 600 pages, lessons that took J. Gresham Machen a lifetime to understand. [...]
While we might think the opposite of gratitude is “ingratitude,” this isn’t very helpful. It is akin to looking up a definition for a word only to find the same word in the definition. A more precise inverse of gratitude is restlessness. [...]
When Protestant Social Teaching came out, it was presented as an introduction or a first step in crystalizing a unified Protestant code of doctrines concerned, as the back cover says, with “love, war, and everything in between.” [...]
In this conversation, KJ Drake and Brannon Ellis explore the vital connections between practicing theology, being a faithful disciple, and making disciples of others. [...]
"What Is Christianity?" and "Guidebook for Instruction in the Christian Religion," by Herman Bavinck: A Review
The Bavinck renaissance continues! Herman Bavinck—perhaps the most prolific Christian thinker of the 20th century—was not only well-known in his Dutch homeland but had a degree of international renown for his trenchant and winsome defense of the Christian faith. [...]
