We exist to glorify and enjoy God. But that begs the question of whether there are reasons for belief in a god in the first place. There are three offered in Q&A 2: the light of conscience, the light of creation, and the light of the canon.

The use of the words “evangelical” or “evangelicalism” continues to be the source of no little consternation in conversations amongst professing Christians. In some corners, they have come to connote everything that is thought to be wrong with Christianity in the 21st century.

“What is the chief and highest end of man?” This is our ultimate question and should be the heartbeat of who we are, thinking of it daily. This is what it is all about as a Christian. To have a “chief end” means that we were made for something, that we have a main purpose in life. And we have a “highest end,” among the many goals and accomplishments of our lives.

What I knew of Herman Bavinck prior to reading this volume came solely from his Reformed Dogmatics. Gleason’s work encompasses all aspects of Bavinck, as indicated in the subtitle.

Keep your eyes peeled (I know, as painful as that might be). There's a new book soon to be released later this summer: Westminster Seminary California--A New Old School, written by W. Robert Godfrey and D. G. Hart. This book has been in the works for a number of years and tells the history of the seminary. Recently there have been some who claim to know what the seminary is all about, but such purported "histories" reveal more about the critic than they do the seminary.