5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (723+ words) The Living Church The By-Products of Faithful Preaching Please email comments to email protected. It is a basic Christian axiom that words do things. God speaks in creation, for example, and in the unfolding of salvation his Word became flesh....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (229+ words) Torrance’s picture of anxious rule following corresponds best to the first tier in Irenaeus’s moral theology. In AH 2.6.1, Irenaeus connects the fear of God experienced by all creatures with the awe-filled fear that all citizens of Rome have for their…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (258+ words) I had the privilege of leading contemporary worship at a Bible camp in Canada this summer. It had been almost a quarter century since I had done so and it was a bit of a stretch. We might note, to…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (444+ words) The Living Church Maturing in Christ, According to the Fathers Please email comments to email protected. Rather than presenting theology as abstract speculation, Gavin’s thesis is built around how early Christians understood spiritual life incrementally, as a gradual transformation of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1366+ words) Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: A Review The Living Church Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: A Review Please email comments to email protected. As we emerged from pandemic-induced isolation, the theologian Myles Werntz warned us against…...

1+ mon, 9+ hour ago   (494+ words) These debates were not merely abstract doctrinal disputes. They involved real people with real lives and real convictions – here in the US and around the world. Yet I was principally concerned with defending my position and, in all honesty, I…...