What is forgiveness? I’m sorry, we say. We did something that caused someone pain. No problem, they answer. Or That’s okay. What if they said I forgive you. It almost grates doesn’t it? If someone says they forgive us, it means they agree that we did them some harm. There was something that needed forgiving. Ouch. We’re much […]
Why You Should Read Popularizations (Letters to a Young Pastor)
Dear ______: I’ve been trying to help you rethink the process of reading when it comes to your course assignments in seminary. This is actually long term advice: whatever kind of work you end up doing, you’ll learn more of what you need day by day if you know how to make quick work of […]
Being a Christian Citizen
Yesterday, on election day, I voted and I prayed. I’m a citizen. I’m a Christian. These things are weighty obligations. And being a Christian citizen is complicated at election time. Whatever I say about the outcome, I stand a decent chance of offending about half the population. And my blog is not a political forum, […]
Jesus Christ’s New Job Description (Heidelberg Catechism Q51)
The Heidelberg Catechism (my favorite 450 year old Reformed summary of biblical Christianity, and a topic I’ve been blogging on since 2013) spends 23 questions painstakingly exploring issues that are not especially pressing to today’s Christians: They explain the Apostles’ Creed line by line. That’s good: the Creed is a classic summary of the important events leading to […]
Why is Christ Seated at the Right Hand of God? (Heidelberg Catechism Q50)
Why “Seated at the Right Hand of God”? I’ve been back to blogging on the Heidelberg Catechism of late. Recently I worked through what these 16th-century Reformed theologians thought about the Ascension. In their line by line commentary on the Apostles’ Creed they took each obvious and not-so obvious issue in turn: Q46: What does Christ’s Ascension into heaven mean? […]
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