Paedocommunion: Is the Lord’s Supper for All Covenant Children?

Is the Lord’s Supper for all covenant children? In recent years, Reformed communities have nursed a simmering argument about this, with an increasing minority claiming that the traditional Reformed perspective betrays the logic of its own sacramental theology. In spite of a few articulate voices in the “paedocommunion” camp,1 however, most major Reformed denominations have […]

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Sola Scriptura: Disease or Cure?

Of all the solas of the Reformation, critics from both within and without the Reformed tradition have most hesitated and argued over sola Scriptura. With good reason. Depending on how you define it, you can quite handily make the case that either not a single soul in the whole, holy catholic church actually believes sola […]

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Incarnational Evangelism: Preaching the Word to a Words-Weary World

How do the arts fit into missions, evangelism, and worship? Is there such a thing as incarnational evangelism through the arts and culture?

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God’s Names in Job: Does God Suffer With Us?

The book of Job has regularly posed a problem for Christians in nearly every generation because it presents, quite starkly, the suffering of a “blameless” man for no reason ever explained to him, by a God who seems far more interested in winning a bet with Satan and browbeating Job with odes to His own […]

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Handling the Word: Bibliolatry in Islam and Reformed Christianity

What’s the difference between the Islamic and historic Christian doctrines of revelation? Is the Islamic doctrine properly called bibliolatry? If so, what does that say about the Reformed doctrine of the Bible that increasingly looks like the Islamic doctrine of the Qur’an?

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Universal Expiation, Definite Atonement: Did Jesus Die for the Sins of All People?

Many Bible texts indicate that Jesus died for all people. Should this impact our doctrine of atonement? And if Jesus died for all, why are all not saved?

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