Resident Faculty

The Law and Pastoral Ministry

January 14, 2007

How the Law of God informs our understanding of how we help one another grow in Christ.

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The Law and the Sabbath

January 13, 2007

A study of the nature of the Sabbath as both a creational institution and a re-creational institution built into both creation and redemption.

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The Law and Laws: A Biblical Overview

January 12, 2007

The principle of periodicity helps us to rightly divide the Word of God.

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The Law of God: A Theological Overview

January 12, 2007

An biblical-theological analysis of the Law-Gospel distinction from a Reformed perspective.

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Isaiah 24:21-23; Revelation 21:1-5, 10-11; 22:2-5

November 29, 2006

In Isaiah's revelation of the Day of the Lord it is the glory of the Lord of Hosts that is revealed before all.

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Isaiah 24; 28.1-6

November 22, 2006

Isaiah presents for the reader a model response in light of the predicted final judgment.

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Isaiah 24; 2 Pet 3.8-13

November 8, 2006

The picture of the Lord's judgment is intended to evoke a response from the reader, especially in light of our knowledge of Jesus the Messiah and his imminent second coming.

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Isaiah 24:1-6

October 11, 2006

The end of the world is presented as a cataclysm that is world engulfing where everyone will know that it is from the hand of the Lord.

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Law and Gospel

October 2, 2006

Once the Law’s legitimate claim against us is satisfied, the gospel and the law conspire together to give us both grace and direction for our Christian life, in relation to God and our neighbors. 

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The History of Covenant Theology

October 1, 2006

While there has always been a theology of the covenants throughout church history, the Reformation recovery of the Gospel and the biblical distinction between grace and works made it possible for Reformed theology to construct a detailed and fruitful covenant theology.

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Bioethics: New Questions to New Technologies

October 1, 2006

How cultural developments pose ever-new moral challenges.

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Isaiah 24; Revelation 18-19

September 27, 2006

Isaiah 24's vision of the end of the world is picked up and elaborated upon by the Apostle John in the Book of the Revelation.

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Isaiah 24-27

September 13, 2006

The prophet Isaiah identifies two distinct cities with two distinct eschatological outcomes.

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God’s Pure Word

September 1, 2006

Because the Word of God is the life of the church, there is a need for competent and faithful ministers of that Word.

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The Certainty of Death

August 1, 2006

Mrs. Hilda Ozinga, a widow, shares with W. Robert Godfrey about grieving from her own experience and others'.

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Did Calvin’s Successors Distort his Doctrine of Predestination?

July 1, 2006

The assumption that Reformed theologians made predestination central resulted from a misunderstanding of scholastic method.

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Coming in From the Outside

June 2, 2006

What the Orthodox Presbyterian Church has to offer to those who come from outside of the denomination.

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What Makes Something a Sacrament?

June 1, 2006

We look for “god” at all the high places but the true God inhabits the low places-when and where he has promised to be.

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Remembering a Forgotten Covenant

April 1, 2006

God's covenant with Levi, refered to twice by Malachi, has been relatively forgotten.

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