May 25, 2016 was a day to be forgotten by most historical books and hardly recognized by its contemporary chroniclers. Were it not for digital publication, hardly a record of the tremor would have even been felt. Yet, that day marks the death of one whom Kevin Vanhoozer has called the “greatest living theologian,” John…

We sometimes speak as if it would be enough just to see a miracle, longing to be astounded. We wonder why God heals one person but permits another to suffer and die. In this sixth week of Easter, we recall that God himself suffered and died, and that the miracles described in the gospels have…

When a group of manual laborers publicly criticize the authorities, you know they are either mad or else they have discovered a truth whose power they respect and worship as greater than those authorities. But such defiance comes at a cost, so one should choose one’s worship wisely. The English Annotations, first published in 1645,…

Preaching on Peter’s explanation of why “we must obey God rather than human beings,” the Swiss reformer Rudolf Gwalther (1519–1586) recognizes the gospel tersely stated. Here Peter teaches that Christ pays for us a debt that we cannot pay and bestows on us a righteousness that we cannot achieve. The Benefits of Christ Are Repentance…

Was it appropriate to speak of the confederate flag as a symbol/sign that could be reclaimed and become a reminder of both the dehumanizing capacities of human beings toward other human beings and the need for God’s transformative grace to guard against such occurrences? Was it appropriate to compare this possibility with how the Church…

Dr. Don Carson, research professor at TEDS and author of many award-winning books, will be speaking in our Trinity College chapel on April 1, Friday, 11am. The title of the lecture is “What is the Gospel?” This lecture is part of the Christ on Campus Initiative (CCI), a ministry of the Henry Center intended especially…