Christianity and Sports: Post-Reformation
by Joshua R. Colson and Brandon K. Presley In the preceding articles of this series, we explored the developing relationship between Christians and sports from the early church until the eve of the Reformation. While the New Testament is replete with sports metaphors and illustrations, the earliest Christians had an uneasy relationship with organized sports due to the idolatry and, often fatal, violence inherent in the Roman games. As...
Walking Humbly: The Essential Role of Meekness in the Life of the Believer
by Sarah Lovett In the pursuit of knowledge, Christians face the temptation of pride in their intellectual powers. However, a clear awareness of their depravity should lead believers to see that all of their knowledge is merely an extension of God’s grace. In fact, because of humankind’s fall into sin, men and women need the redemption of their minds, hearts, and wills. Consequently, given the reality of humankind’s fallenness,...
Examining the Language of Foreknowledge in the New Testament
Christian Doctrines is one of my favorite courses to teach at Welch College. This course introduces students to the core doctrines of the Christian faith from a Reformed Arminian and Free Will Baptist perspective. One of my favorite lectures to give concerns the doctrines of foreknowledge, election, and predestination. Some (not all) of my Arminian and Calvinist students alike are surprised when I tell them I believe in these...
Show Kindness and Mercy: Benevolence or Redistribution?
In our winter 2025 Recommended Books post, senior contributor Jesse F. Owens praised Alex DiPrima’s Spurgeon and the Poor: How the Gospel Compels Christian Social Concern for its call to Christian social action. His laudatory summary caught my eye. These kinds of exhortations are exactly what we need to bring before our fellow believers. We need to remember that the second great commandment (Mk. 12:31) calls us to love our neighbor as...
Thomas Monck’s Apologia: A General Baptist Use of Reformed Orthodoxy to Defend the Trinity
Historian Ernest Gordon Rupp said of Thomas Monck’s Cure for the Cankering Error of the New Eutychians (1673), “No high churchman, no orthodox Anglican, not Daniel Waterland himself produced an abler defence of catholic doctrine.”[1] Monck’s Cure was a biblical and theological polemic against the rising tide of anti-Trinitarianism in England and the emergence of heretical Christology within his own denomination. Rupp’s assessment is...
Recommended Books (Winter 2025)
This winter we would like to share some good reads we discovered over the past few months. These selections represent a wide array of topics that we think will interest you. Some selections will be great for personal reading, others for family time. Most of all, we think they will broaden your understanding of God’s creation and His work in it because they have had that result in our lives. Please leave us your favorite reads in the...
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