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The Trinity’s Love and Adoption by Dr. Robert Peterson I will not soon forget the response of the students in my systematic theology class in the spring of 2003. The students had prayed since the first day of class for fellow student Jason and his wife, Sally, who wanted badly to adopt a child from…
The Quest for a Calling: What is Mine, and How Do I Find It? by Dr. Dan Doriani To do what we love for people we love” could be the motto for the ideal job. Musicians love to perform, bakers delight to make breads and pastries, and engineers yearn to solve problems. But how do…
Developing Servant-Leaders by Dr. Bob Burns “But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries…
The Saturation of Cynicism by Prof. Jerram Barrs Where does the deep pessimism that permeates society come from, and how can Christians counteract this spiritually deadly attitude? Reader’s Digest tells us that cynicism is “a scornful or mocking attitude; bitterly mocking; scornful or skeptical of the motives or virtue of others; believing that people are…
Core Value: Kingdom Perspective By Dr. Michael D. Williams Seven core values amplify and clarify how Covenant Theological Seminary understands its purpose. In this interview, Professor of Systematic Theology Dr. Michael Williams discusses the core value of Kingdom perspective and how it touches every area of the Christian’s life. Core Value #7: Kingdom Perspective. We…
Psalm 73: Medicine for Madness by Dr. Richard Winter Read Psalm 73 online (ESV) For many generations, all of my family members in England have been Christians. Through hard work and business integrity they have enjoyed material prosperity and good relationships, and we always interpreted it as God’s blessing. Little difficulty seemed to come my…
Biblical Authority An Interview With Dr. Hans Bayer Seven core values amplify and clarify how Covenant Theological Seminary understands its purpose. In the second installment of our series on these Core Values, Dr. Hans Bayer, professor of New Testament, explains the Seminary’s view of biblical authority. Core Value #2: Biblical Authority: We believe that the…
Core Value: Relational Emphasis by Prof. Jerram Barrs Seven core values amplify and clarify how Covenant Theological Seminary understands its purpose. In this installment of our series on these core values, Jerram Barrs, professor of Christian studies and contemporary culture and resident scholar of the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute, discusses the origin of our relational…
Echoes of Eden in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Prof. Jerram Barrs C. S. Lewis is very much in the news these days. Thanks to recent film versions of some of his works, bookstores are selling great quantities of Lewis’s Narnia stories and many other Narnia-related works. All this…
Echoes of Eden in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by Prof. Jerram Barrs C. S. Lewis is very much in the news these days. Thanks to recent film versions of some of his works, bookstores are selling great quantities of Lewis’s Narnia stories and many other Narnia-related works. All this…
Insights From the Westminster Standards For Today’s Preachers by Dr. Bryan Chapell For many years a statue of John Knox stood outside St. Giles Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. From the pulpit of St. Giles, the man known as “The Trumpeter of God” heralded the truth of the Gospel, braved death to oppose a Catholic monarchy,…
Insights From the Westminster Standards For Today’s Preachers by Dr. Bryan Chapell For many years a statue of John Knox stood outside St. Giles Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. From the pulpit of St. Giles, the man known as “The Trumpeter of God” heralded the truth of the Gospel, braved death to oppose a Catholic monarchy,…