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Posts by J-T (Page 3)

liar liar

You’re being lied to. So am I. We are lied to all the time, yet we frequently fall for the lie for there is something in us that desperately wants the lie to be true. It is not. It never was. It never will be. Let me give you some backstory, but first, some backstory…

phantom pain

The Nicene Creed declares, “We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church”. Normally in English adjectives like this are usually separated by commas. For example, if you had rough day at work you might write in your journal, What a long, tiring, frustrating day. You are indicating three distinct—though clearly related—things about your day.…

Judas, sovereignty, and human will

It seems to me that arguing for a particular theological system requires trying to force some Scriptures into boxes they can’t quite fit in order to make sense of the rest of the Scriptures. To say this another way, it seems clear to me that when picking a theological system, whether Covenantal Theology or Dispensationalism…

are we a fraction of a fraction of a fraction?

“Did God intend for the Church to divide itself multiple times? East / West, Protestant / Catholic, various Protestant denominations, etc.—or has he been course-correcting his people throughout time through these divisions?” What a profound question! Given Jesus prayed for the church’s unity in John 17, that part is easy. No, God did not intend…

what we need is another hot-take!

You ever get on social media thinking to yourself, “You know what I need? I need someone’s hot-take. I need to know what someone thinks about some current event after several seconds of deep, thoughtful reflection on it.” What you and I need is yet another hot-take, isn’t it? We get onto our favorite social…