Ex Libris

** THIS POST DISCUSSES PLOT ELEMENTS OF THE HARRY POTTER STORY. SO, SPOILERS**
Character Names Reveal Christian Truth
I thought, since some of the literary interpretations rely on Rowling’s names and animal characters, we would address these first.
Often the names of characters are laden with subtle Christian meaning, besides being enormously creative and fun. J.K. Rowling was […]

In this facet of the blog, I will be discussing the Harry Potter saga and establishing that it is, in deed and in fact, Christian fiction of the highest caliber, and worthy of being shelved next to the works of C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
First, I would like to briefly mention a breathtaking quote […]

On July 9th, P. Andrew Sandlin, a theologian and cultural critic I hold in extremely high regard (his book New Flesh, New Earth truly transformed my faith) attacked “covenant renewal” folks on his blog, which would be basically your local Federal Vision dept., and pretty much all “high church” fellas.
He wrote,
Legalism in liturgy tends to […]

Yes, I said I wasn’t going to post for two weeks or so. But this was just too funny to pass up on.
A Romanian fellow has filed a law suit against God (!) for breach of the contract God made with him via baptism. The Romanian is a murderer, and claims that due to his […]

I was reading Acts 12 today, which as we all should know is the story of Peter’s arrest and miraculous escape from prison. What I offer here is a brief and frankly, rambling thought about the passage that I think might warrant further evaluation.
Here is the passage in full:
Act 12: 4 And when he […]

John 17 is structured in such a way that it’s argument is both breathtakingly deep and astonishingly simple. God the Father and Jesus are speaking of the relationship between the Triune God and the people of God, Christians. But more than this, this relationship between God and His people is set parallel to and compared […]

Covenant theology sprang up naturally as the most consistent expression of
Calvinism, in which the idea of the self-sufficient, ontological Trinity is the final
reference point in all predication. It is this idea that lies at the center of covenant theology. The three persons of the Trinity have exhaustively personal relationship with one another. And the idea […]

The PCA adopted the ad interim report on the Federal Vision and New Perspective on Paul. This is unfortunate for a number of reasons I hope to address in future posts, but for this one, I am simply going to give my impressions of what went on during the actual debate at the General Assembly.
First, […]

Sound theology leads always to the love of beauty. When there is no love of beauty, we may say, reasoning modus tollens, that there is no sound theology. Now the logic of the thing can also mean that wrangles about theology may certainly lead to wrangles about aesthetics. But this is not our purpose here. […]