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Willliam Lane Craig on the 'New Atheism'

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-05-13T20:29:37-07:00

Graduating!

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-04-10T14:52:15-07:00

We're BOTH graduating and first of all just want to say thanks for all you've been to us in our lives--we really appreciate each you and consider you as people who have formed who we are and helped us along our own journey.

High Calvinism hides the Gospel!

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-03-29T20:57:58-07:00

He commands all people to repent and believe in Jesus the Lord, because He does not want them to go to Hell (2 Pet 3:9, 1 Tim 2:3-4).

Gerry Breshears on resolving conflict in marriage

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-03-25T09:54:43-07:00

Wife is to speak with a gentle and quiet spirit showing respect for her husband not letting herself give way to fear (1 Peter 3:1-6) (NOTE: the goal is for the husband to feel her submissive spirit, that she genuinely cares for his best as she expresses her feeling and desires).

N.T. Wright on the Resurrection

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-03-10T20:54:26-08:00

Craig Evans

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-03-09T19:18:12-08:00

I have been following Craig Evans recently and have been encouraged by His scholarship, writing, and the scores of interviews He has done with media in regards to the historical Jesus.

Test everything by scripture...even John Piper.

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-02-17T10:10:33-08:00

McCall writes first (Thomas McCall, "I Believe in Divine Sovereignty", Trinity Journal 29/2 [Fall 2008] 205-226), followed by Piper's response (John Piper, "I Believe in God's Self-Sufficiency: A Response to Thomas McCall", Trinity Journal 29/2 [Fall 2008] 227-234), and then McCall offering a final critique (Thomas McCall, "We Believe in God's Sovereign Goodness: A Rejoinder to John Piper", Trinity Journal 29/2 [Fall 2008] 235-246).

Fight satan. Study the resurrection of Jesus.

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-01-27T17:15:59-08:00

The fact that some 10,000 jews 50 days after Jesus crucifixion, in Jerusalem, came to worship Him as Messiah, makes the case for Jesus bodily resurrection highly plausible.

Antony Flew

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2010-01-06T19:34:12-08:00

Antony Flew, British philosopher, Oxford professor, and leading champion of atheism for more than fifty years, honestly followed the evidence and renounced his naturalistic faith in 2004.

Intelligent Design update.

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-12-04T16:06:30-08:00

Furthermore, the book reviewers left out some of the year's most pro-Darwin books such as Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth and Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True.

Jesus is the Bread of Life. 1 Cor 10:16-17

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-11-03T11:15:35-08:00

Jesus said, “and the bread which I give is my flesh which I shall give for the life of the world,” and again, “I am the bread of life” and “if anyone eats of this bread, He shall live forever,” and again, “whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Foreknowledge: Part 3

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-11-02T11:57:31-08:00

Following Augustine, Calvin and his followers to this day maintain that God knows all events precisely because he sovereignly determines what is to happen in human history right down to the tiniest detail (referred to as meticulous providence).

Foreknowledge: Part 2. Apostolic Fathers

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-11-02T11:08:57-08:00

If, therefore, in the present time also, God, knowing the number of those who will not believe, since He foreknows all things, has given them over to unbelief, and turned away His face from men of this stamp, leaving them in the darkness which they have themselves chosen for themselves, what is there wonderful if He did also at that time give over to their unbelief, Pharaoh, who never would have believed, along with those who were with him?

Foreknowledge: Part 1

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-10-26T17:18:37-07:00

Jer 1:5 Is often appealled to because God says to Jeremiah before I formed you in your mother’s womb I knew (hebrew ‘yada’) you.

The "Body" of Christ

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-09-21T12:42:25-07:00

If the church will then listen to Jesus commands and obey these commands of Christ, regardless the cost, the church will see Jesus moving by His Spirit in the world for the fulfillment of the great commission, the spoiling of Satan’s goods, the salvation of the nations, and the glory and praise of God.

God the Peacemaker

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-09-18T14:08:11-07:00

It seems to me that following the biblical plotline, the first note struck is the Christus Victor one (i.e., the defeat of evil) in the protevangelium (first gospel) set out in Genesis 3:15.

Apostolic Preaching of the Cross

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-09-18T13:00:27-07:00

As, I read the text, and thought about what Jesus accomplished on the cross, I have come to discover that there was no substance to the lie.

Michael Behe on Intelligent Design

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-08-31T09:26:35-07:00

Behe argues that when Darwin wrote in His “Origin of Species, By means of Natural Selection:Preseveration of favored races in the struggle for life” (Which was a gross scientific advocation for Racism as much as a theory of micro and macro mutation within species, but that is for another post) “If it could ever be demonstrated that any complex system existed which could not possibly have been formed, by numerous, successive, slight modifications, then my theory absolutely breaks down.”

Postmodernism?

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-07-27T17:12:57-07:00

Lastly, if you are into apologetics and learning about arguments for the existence of God, the reliability of the Old & New Testaments, the Historicity of Jesus life-death-and Resurrection, prophecy, archaeological discoveries, and the like you must watch the flash curriculum videos at this site.

Tim Keller on the Gospel vs. Religion

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-07-22T15:53:10-07:00

RELIGION: When circumstances in my life go wrong, I am angry at God or my self, since I believe, like Job’s friends that anyone who is good deserves a comfortable life. 

Colossians

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-07-14T14:56:17-07:00

We as believers in Jesus have been identified with Jesus (3:3), saved from our enemies by Jesus (2:14-15), reconciled to God by Jesus (1:21-22) and are therefore to remain trusting Jesus (1:23).

Textual Criticism

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-06-18T15:26:16-07:00

I am a big advocate of entire book memorization as an aid in interpretation, and I am beginning to think it is even more important as we seek to do exegesis well.

Fideism and the Correspondence theory of truth

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-06-05T11:45:11-07:00

If Jesus statements about His incarnation, life, death, and resurrection were never stated or are not accurate to reality there is no reason to follow Jesus for He would be a liar, or lunatic and the christian faith would be based on fiction.

Galatians

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-06-02T09:33:19-07:00

It is God’s will to deliver us from this present evil age through the new covenant (not old covenant) promises in Christ, which Paul adds were even given to Abraham, and those who truly want to be sons of Abraham, will relate to God by faith as well.

New Calvinism 2

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-27T08:51:13-07:00

Jesus died for all and made propitiation for sins toward God (1Jn 2:1-2, 4:10-11, Heb 3:17, Rom 3:25), thus reconciling God to His world (2 Cor 5:18-21), and providing an access point by which God can justly justify those who come to God through Jesus (Rom 3:26).

New Calvinism

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-26T10:09:59-07:00

Since I know Yahweh is not these things (Ex 34:6-7) I get really zealous to give a clear, respectful, loving answer to so many young theologian types who are being lured away, in my estimation, into this theological error.

Preach the gospel always...with words!

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-21T12:47:22-07:00

Francis not only did not say this pithy phrase, He did not live this way either, He rather preached the gospel vigorously throughout His life with actual spoken words.

Biblical and Systematic Theology

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-21T10:19:41-07:00

I think the categories Systematicians have debacled so long to fill with "right" answers usually tend to be the "secret" categories that we are never suppose to fill (Deut 29:29, Isaiah 55:8-9, Rom 11:30-32).

Missing link is found...?

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-21T10:18:50-07:00

New Perspective on Paul

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-21T10:17:48-07:00

Reconciliation and Geerhardus Vos

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-21T10:16:09-07:00

I think, God is pleading with people (through the church) to be forgiven on the merits of Jesus substitutionary death (2 cor 5:21), if people turn to God they must do it through the person and work of Jesus (mediator of reconciliation). If people repent and trust Jesus for salvation they are doing this in cooperation with the Holy Spirit who, I think, is convicting the world to be reconciled to God through Jesus.

Reconciliation and Rob Bell

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-21T10:15:09-07:00

Crucified with Christ

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-20T16:33:03-07:00

Paul shows this in four ways: (1) that it was the law’s purpose to bring about its own demise in legislating the lives of God’s people (Gal 3); (2) that such a jurisdictional demise was necessary in order that believers in Christ might live more fully in relationship with God (Gal 2:20c); (3) that freedom from the law’s jurisdiction is demanded by the death of Christ on the cross (2:21c); and (4) that by identification with Christ we experience the freedom from the law that he accomplished (2:20b).

Labeling people with a "dry erase"

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-20T16:32:13-07:00

the end ...

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-05-20T16:29:49-07:00

Jesus is LORD!

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-04-30T13:17:45-07:00

That is why one day every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God (Ph 2:9-11).

Scripture is awesome!

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-03-03T15:37:51-08:00

After 8 years of bible study, learning koine greek, and memorizing 18 of the 27 new testament books, I still feel that I am barely scratching the surface on who God is and what He has done in the person of Jesus Christ!

Jesus death

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2009-02-01T09:36:00-08:00

At first thought I would like to write “A biblical theology of the atonement,” simply because I think my exegesis of New Testament atonement passages are not as thoroughly connected to the Old Testament atonement passages and I am therefore missing something of the thought forms of the Jewish (Paul, Peter, Hebrews) writers of the NT.

Skatechurch

jesse@withoutvoid.com — 2008-11-19T15:48:29-08:00

My assumption is based on the idea that everything we need to know about what Jesus taught is recorded for us in the Spirit inspired historically reliable New Testament.