by Joe Romeo | May 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
I liked Charles Spurgeon’s morning devotional for May 23, especially these words: “If there is one stitch in the celestial garment of our righteousness that we must insert ourselves, then we are lost; but this is our confidence—what the Lord begins, He...
by Joe Romeo | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
The apostle Paul told his young protégé Timothy, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim. 4:7). I know those words have a specific meaning in the context of the letter, but I sometimes wonder if the fight of the faith is...
by Joe Romeo | May 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
I liked Brevard Childs’s (1923–2007) reflections on John Calvin’s view of biblical doctrine: I think it is fair to say that there are few elements of Calvin’s biblical exegesis more alien to the heirs of the Enlightenment and the postmodern era than...
by Joe Romeo | May 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
I liked Carl Trueman’s article “Why Pro-Abortion Activists Desecrate Churches.” I liked, and have enjoyed reading, Michael Allen Gillespie’s book The Theological Origins of Modernity. According to Gillespie, to understand modernity we must...
by Joe Romeo | May 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I posted my first blog in seven weeks. Perhaps you’re wondering where I’ve been? (Probably not, since you’re busy with your own life.) Nevertheless, I thought I’d share the reasons for my absence. The first is vacation. During the latter part of March my...
by Joe Romeo | May 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the books I routinely recommend to people is the collected letters of Jack Miller. Last week reminded me why. In one letter, Jack offers some advice to his daughter and son-in-law, who are seeking to discern whether they should serve as missionaries to Ireland....
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