Fuel for Ethics from WWJD? Fake it ‘til You Make it? “Kingdom”? Gratitude? Imitation? or Creation?
“As Bavinck works out the concrete content of his ethics in this volume (Reformed Ethics Volume 2), he joins the long tradition of Reformed ethicists and turns to the Decalogue and the notion of duty. That move could be disconcerting for some who have recently turned to the “kingdom ethics” of union with and imitation of Christ because that emphasis is seen as a counter to the role of law and duty in Christian living.” – John Bolt
A Glimpse Into “Holy Worldliness” Across the Globe
“The flourishing of one individual requires the flourishing of schools and families, courts and businesses, artist guilds and sports teams, newspapers and unions, churches and sewer systems. Public theologians therefore refuse to narrow their theological conception of flourishing to just the political, the economic, the spiritual, or the aesthetic. Instead, they aim to further the manifold flourishing of public life.”
A Call to Raise Sons of Consequence
"We need to have a vision of the day our sons will leave our homes and work backward from that day with a plan to help them gain the knowledge, skills, character, and experiences they need. This will enable them to move into the world as confident and healthy men. That’s when the questions will start pouring into your mind. What have I given him? What wisdom, what love, what lessons is he carrying into the world? What brokenness is he bearing? What is my legacy to him?" - Jon Tyson
What do we think about the future of youth?
So, neither of these alternatives can offer us Christians a worldview that satisfies. Both are designed to answer some basic biblical principles, but they draw a very one-sided picture that leaves out the middle. What we have to see is a triptych. We need a centre part that holds our societal picture together. A picture that can give both the person as an individual and society’s structure hope. Chagall painted this beautiful picture of the rainbow. Sign of the Union of Heave and Earth. People need God in the centre of all life...
The Joyous Implications of A Proper View of Self & A High View of Christ
Realizing the Gospel is not just “true”, but it is actually truly wonderfully good news – not just in theory but in lived reality. Join is as Dr Gene Veith, author of “The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals” (Concordia Publishing House), serves up what the ingredients are for true joy and true rest in Christ and his finished work.
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The Joyous Implications of A Proper View of Self & A High View of Christ
Realizing the Gospel is not just “true”, but it is actually truly wonderfully good news – not just in theory but in lived reality. Join is as Dr Gene Veith, author of “The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals” (Concordia Publishing House), serves up what the...
“Let them Rule”
Listen in as we sit down with Dr. J. Richard Middleton to discuss the forest and the trees of being image-bearers, what should Image Bears be doing, God's purpose for the world, God's generosity, the great change that took place the moment God resolved to create humanity and good Jamaican...
Christ infuses purpose into every facet of the ordinary
Folding laundry. Weeding the garden. Cooking dinner. Changing diapers. Work in the home can seem so ordinary. Does any of it matter? Is there meaning in our most mundane moments at home? When the work of the home fills our days, it is easy to get disillusioned and miss God’s...
Before the Fall, we were all artists and poets
“Can our churches be beautiful again, and not just promote goodness and truth?... It’s one thing to make our work, our business, our arts and our political endeavors good and even ‘successful.’ It’s another to aspire to make them beautiful. It’s one thing to try to educate and raise our...
By Steve Bishop
There is a wide range of varieties of what has loosely been termed Calvinistic philosophy. This family tree is an attempt to identify some of these strands and their relationships. Inevitably, it is an oversimplification...
He Named things We Pastors, Creatives and Rank-and-Files Couldn’t Name
“The Bible became alive to Him, it was not as some Elizabethan artifact but as a living book, appropriate for the gritty lives of butchers, cement layers, radio-preaching mothers, and the drunks who lounged in the alley behind his father’s Butcher shop. People around the world were picking up books...
The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck
Listen in as we sit down with Dr. Bruce Pass and discuss his book “The Heart of Dogmatics: Christology and Christocentrism in Herman Bavinck”. Here we are guided by the hand of Bavinck and Dr. Pass into a Theology that is no mere academic hobby but where Theology is a...
By Steve Bishop
Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck were the main instigators of the movement that became known as neo-Calvinism, however, they stood on the shoulders of others. One of these was Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer (1801–1876). Harry van Dyke describes him as a “godfather” to both Kuyper and Bavinck; and Bratt describes...
"Sanctification" or "Transformation by Participation"?
We need to say more about this transformation, which in classic theology is usually called sanctification. We differ from this tradition on terminology but not as to content. In fact, by using “transformation,” we hope to inject the concept with new meaning. As we further reflect on the nature of...
![“Somewhere in central Pennsylvania there is a warm and inviting labyrinth called Hearts & Minds Bookstore. Byron and Beth Borger, the caretakers of Hearts & Minds, have worked there tirelessly for over three decades to create a space for serious, reflective readers. The Borgers are committed to helping their customers live out Christ’s Lordship in the midst of our highly secularized, postmodern culture. They have carried out this mission through their shop, mail-order services, and book tables at conferences around the country. Their unremitting efforts to offer quality books for thinking biblically about every area of life has inspired a volume on this, their bookstore’s thirty-fifth anniversary. One of the many ways Hearts & Minds has blessed their customers has been through BookNotes. In those reviews, Byron shares colorful anecdotes and passionate arguments for why to read books, and amplified lists suggesting what books to read. In this book, the Borger’s friends have adopted the BookNotes model and offer a defense for books in their spheres of interest, along with a number of titles for the reader to consider investing their time in for deeper study.” – From “A Book For Hearts & Minds: What You Should Read and Why”
“I’ve found Borger’s vocation to be more similar to a pharmacist than a bookseller. People come to Hearts and Minds with one deficiency or another. After some listening, Borger prescribes just the right supplement of Al Wolters or Richard Middleton or an obscure gem hidden in a tacky dust jacket… Byron is the Michael Jordan of synthesizing ideas. Each [“BookNotes”] post is rife with connections: connections between art and faith, between politics and science, between gardening and prayer. Byron is a true interdisciplinarian, a renascence man if ever there was one.” – Dustin Messer
Everyone loves an American institution. You have CBGBs in NY (started off The Ramones, The Dead Boys, etc.). The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. The Jack Daniels distillery Lynchburg. Wrigley field in Chicago, and you have Hearts & Minds books. An American institution to be sure. There are book stores, and then there is the Hearts and Minds Bookstore.](https://thelaymenslounge.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
