“A Private Conversation with Jesus about Divorce” (Mark 10:10-12)


In this video, Dr. George O. Wood continues his devotional series on the Gospel of Mark by talking about Jesus’ teaching on divorce in Mark 10:10-12. Dr. Wood is general superintendent of the Assemblies of God (and my dad). “A Private Conversation with Jesus about Divorc…, posted with vodpod Continue reading “A Private Conversation with Jesus about Divorce” (Mark 10:10-12)

A Review of “God’s Grand Design: The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards” by Sean Michael Lewis


Sean Michael Lucas, God’s Grand Design: The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011). $17.99, 224 pages. My doctrine of salvation is Arminian, so you may wonder why I think highly of Sean Michael Lucas’s study of Jonathan Edwards, whose soteriology was Calvinist. The answer is twofold: First, Lucas has written an accessible introduction to the biblical theology and pastoral practice of “America’s greatest theologian”—as Robert Jenson described Edwards. Whatever their theological stripes may be, interested students of theology are in Lucas’s debt for this service. Edwards’s literary corpus is large and his thought complex, but Lucas ably … Continue reading A Review of “God’s Grand Design: The Theological Vision of Jonathan Edwards” by Sean Michael Lewis

Why Do Christians Leave the Faith?


Over at Black, White and Gray, Bradley Wright is writing a series of posts on deconversion, answering the question, “Why do Christians leave the faith?” Here are the posts so far: “The Fundamental Importance of Apologetics” In reading through these testimonies, and understanding how many of the former Christians linked their departure from the faith to these intellectual and theological concerns, I started wondering if the Church has an incomplete appreciation of the role of apologetics. Typically, the defending of Christianity encompassed by apologetics is aimed at non-Christians, helping them to understand the faith as removing their objections to it. … Continue reading Why Do Christians Leave the Faith?