The Practice of Silence in Corporate Worship

The Practice of Silence in Corporate Worship

How important does the role of silence play in our corporate worship gatherings. Many of us have probably attended a church that was either fearful of silence and/or avoided it for the sake of keeping the attention of the “masses.” Many of us strongly...
The Aesthetic Beauty of Scripture

The Aesthetic Beauty of Scripture

“… when we interpret the Bible according to good hermeneutical principles, we will derive maximum benefit from our reading of the Bible.” Commenting on the fruit of good hermeneutics, Introduction to Biblical Interpretation notes nine areas that are...
The Aesthetic Beauty of Scripture

Church History is a Pastoral Discipline

Marc Cortez reports that there was an ETS paper presented by Dr. Sean Lucas (First Presbyterian Church) on how every pastor needs to take church history as a pastoral discipline. Marc gives us Lucas’ four characteristics of church history that every pastor needs...
Authorial Epistemology in Relation to Hermeneutics

Authorial Epistemology in Relation to Hermeneutics

I’ve been thinking a lot about post-modernism and the various perspectives on how we come to understand truth. Epistemology is essentially the study of knowledge and asks questions related to how we receive knowledge and how we can be sure that what we think is...