C.S. Lewis on the Right of Private Judgment
In his Preface to Paradise Lost, C.S.Lewis masterfully challenged T.S. Eliot’s position that “the best contemporary practicing poets are the only ‘jury of judgment’ whose verdict on his own views of Paradise Lost he will accept.” Lewis pulled on Eliot’s thread of logical... Read More
No Greeting From the Holy Spirit?
I’ve always been intrigued by the way in which God greets His church in so many of the Epistles. Whether it is... Read More
Because There Was No Sun…
It has become increasingly popular for theologians to appeal to Meredith Kline’s 1958 “groundbreaking” article, “Because It Had Not Rained...” in order... Read More
Old Testament Personal Types and Shadows of Christ
There is, perhaps nothing so faith-building in the OT–apart from the explicit Messianic prophecies–as God’s covenantal structuring of history that gave us... Read More
A Bad Court In Which To Be Tried
If there is one thing that those who know me well can agree upon it’s the fact that it’s not hard to... Read More
William Fitch Sermons
In 2 Timothy, the apostle Paul instructed his young protegee with some important departing counsel: “The things that you have heard from... Read More
The Wisdom of the Son (Law and Gospel in the Proverbs)
In an earlier post, “The Songs of the Son (Seeing Christ in the Psalms),” we gave consideration to the fact that–although there... Read More
The Emmaus Sessions: Christ and Redemptive History
Last year we started “The Emmaus Sessions” at New Covenant Presbyterian Church. The series is designed to focus on the hermeneutics of Christ in the Old Testament by... Read More
A Covenantal Approach to the Song of Songs*
The more I read and study the Song of Songs, the more impressed I am with the biblical theology that structures Solomon’s... Read More
Tolerance that Parodies Love
It shouldn’t surprise us–but we all too often find ourselves wondering at the relevance with which an author of a bygone generation speaks into... Read More