some thoughts

Today we took up the last topic in our series on the foundations of the faith, namely, The Doctrine of Redemption (Redemption Applied). Together with Redemption Accomplished, [Creation, and Providence] this could be subsumed under the greater heading of “The Works of God.”
We began by reviewing our last session on Redemption Accomplished, remembering Christ’s work […]

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We set aside today’s class for questions about last week’s teaching on the Doctrine of Redemption (Redemption Accomplished). Not all of the questions were directly about this topic, but we did have a few good ones.

One student asked about the somewhat cryptic passage in 1 John 5:16-17. We basically decided that we don’t know what […]

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The topic of today’s class was another of the Acts of God, namely The Doctrine of Redemption (Redemption Accomplished). We started at the beginning, in Genesis 3, and reviewed the fall of mankind–which established our need for a saviour. We briefly mentioned the idea that without the Fall, there would be no display of God’s […]

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Today we took up The Doctrine of God III. Having covered The Being of God over the past three weeks, most of the remaining topics (3-4 more weeks) could be subsumed under the heading of The Works of God. Included in this are 1) The Divine Decree, 2) Creation, 3) Providence, and 4) Redemption. Today […]

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Today we covered the clear but incomprehensible Doctrine of the Tri-une Nature of God. Calling to mind the topics of Scriptural Authority (i.e., that our reason is subject to revelation, not vice versa) and the Incomprehensibility of God (Deut. 29:29, etc.), we acknowledged with Paul–at the outset–that this is a “great mystery” (1 Tim. 3:16).
As […]

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We started our class today by reading/praying Exodus 33:12-23 together, praying that God would show us his glory and all his goodness as we ascend his holy hill to fix our eyes upon his beauty.
The specific subjects today, conitinuing in The Doctrine of God (The Being of God), were his unshared (”incommunicable”) and shared (”communicable”) […]

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Today we continued exploring the Doctrine of God, with a particular emphasis on the Names and Images that God has employed to communicate his being and character to us.
We started by reviewing last week’s talks centering on God’s Absolute Personality, his covenant Lordship, the Creator/creature distinction, and his transcendence and immanence.
We discussed the Old Testament […]

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Today all our theology truly became doxology.
As we began the sesion on The Doctrine of God (Part I: The Being and Nature), we opened with Psalm 24. Asking the question, “Who is this King of Glory?” we knew that we were not about to take up some superficial topic; but the deepest subject the […]

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Today we were to take up part I of the Doctrine of God (The Being of God), but didn’t because of some other (more important) activities going on at the same time (and in the same room), and also for lack of a quorum. Instead we discussed some questions that had come up regarding the […]

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Today we discussed (or rather, I gave a talk on) The Doctrine of the Word of God II. The main idea of the class, (following up on our recognition of the Origin (and thus, the Authority and Inerrancy) of the Word of God from last week,) was that Scripture (as the Word of God), […]

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