THE GOSPEL

• What is the Gospel? (April 2010)
• Beware of “Do-It-Yourself Christianity” (May 2010)
• What is a Christian? (May 2010)
• Why then the Law? : Counter-Intuitive, Gospel Logic (June 2010)
• The Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Better Investment Than Gold (December 2010)
• What is the Gospel? (June 2013)
• The Gospel Perfectly and Proportionately Humbles and Exalts (June 2013)
• Matthew’s Gospel: A King and His Kingdom  (July 2013)
• Gospel Logic and Revelational Beauty: John Stott on Romans 1:16-20 (November 2013)
• Spotting Counterfeit Gospels (May 2014)
• The Gospel Is Better Than Amnesty – Guest Blog by Jonathon Woodyard (April 2015)
• The Gospel at Thanksgiving (November 2015)

Theological Triage

• Reflections from Together for the Gospel
• Theological Triage (pt. 1): Rightly Dividing Truth from Error
• Theological Triage (pt. 2): Unity in the Gospel, Separation in the Church
• Theological Triage (pt. 3): Love Covers a Multitude of Differences

DOCTRINAL LOCI

Prolegomena & Theological Method

• Receiving and Believing the Word of God (July 2009)
• The Insufficiency of Biblical Theology ? (July 2009)
• The Theologian’s Task (June 2009)
• Herman Bavinck on Scripture’s Fuller Sense (June 2009)
• The Ways of Our God: An Approach to Biblical Theology (May 2009)
• Worship Tests Truth :: Doctrine Determines Doxology  (December 2008)
• Postfoundationalism as Spiritual Adultery (June 2008)
• Christianity goes back…back…back…back (November 2011)
• Truth and Tradition: Or what Francis Turretin might say to Pope Francis (March 2013)
• Taste and See the Sweet Layers of Scripture (June 2013)
• How Can We Know an Invisible God? (October 2013)
• Evangelical Theology’s Prolegomena: Strong on the Gospel, but Suspect on Its Sources (November 2013)
• Prolegomena Matters: Engaging with Michael Bird’s Evangelical Theology (November 2013)
• David Wells, World Vision, and the Need for Truth (March 2014)
• ‘My Inheritance’: A Necessary Approach to the Scriptures (April 2014)
• Theology is Not Just for Theologians (January 2016)

Bibliology: The Doctrine of Scripture

• Ten Words: Words of Life by Timothy Ward (March 2013)
• The Bible Says It, That Settles It (July 2012)
• Why Should I Read My Bible? (May 2010)
• Hungry for the Word? (February 2010)
• Herman Bavinck and Peter Enns on an Incarnational Analogy of Scripture (March 2009)
• How do you order the books of the Old Testament? (January 2009)
• Stephen Evans on Myth: An Impartial Arbitrator (January 2009)
• God’s iBible (1): Illumination and Intervention (August 2008)
• God’s iBible (2): Divine Inspiration and Information Transmission (August 2008)
• God’s iBible (3): Personal Illumination and Incredible Praise (August 2008)
• The Creative Power of God’s Word (September 2008)
• Fifteen Years of Manual Labor: How Much Is Your Bible Worth? (March 2013)
• The Bible: Literature’s Gold Standard (June 2013)
• Happily Ever After: A Meditation on God’s Word (September 2013)
• The Bible in American Public Life: Two Lessons from Mark Noll’s New Book (January 2016)

Theology Proper: The Doctrine of God

• Speaking of the Trinity (April 2012)
• God is a Wise Lover: A Helpful Illustration from R. L. Dabney on the Wisdom and Benevolence of God (July 2011)
• Providence & Peace(making) (April 2010)
• Responsibly Submitting to God’s Sovereignty (May 2010)
• The Trinity in Biblical Theological Perspective (1): A Mystery without mysterion (May 2009)
• The Trinity in Biblical Theological Perspective (2) (May 2009)
• The Trinity and Progressive Revelation (February 2009)
• Father, Son, & Holy Spirit by Bruce Ware (January 2009)
• Can God Suffer? (January 2009)
• More Gregory Nazianzen: The Historical Revelation of the Trinity (December 2008)
• NASA and the Spirit of Babel (May 2008)
• Theo-logy: Let Us Press on to Know and Love the Lord (July 2008)
• How Can We Know an Invisible God? (October 2013)
• Crossing the Creator-Creature Distinction (June 2013)
• The Doctrine of the Trinity: God is One God (November 2013)
• The Doctrine of the Trinity: Three Distinct Persons (November 2013)
• The Doctrine of the Trinity: Three Perichoretic Persons (November 2013)
• Our Sovereign God (November 2013)
• Divine Weightlessness: The Fundamental Problem in Evangelicalism (March 2014)
• Without Holiness . . . (April 2014)
• Food for Thought: The Fear of the Lord (May 2014)
• Seeing God’s Holiness in the Pentateuch (August 2014)
• Life is Good? How God’s Goodness Redefines the Good Life (April 2015)
• A Severe Mercy: Rediscovering the Holiness of God (May 2015)
• Creation, the Trinity, and the Incarnation: What “God with US” says to “ME and God” (December 2015)
• Is God the Author of Sin? (January 2016)

Cosmology: The Doctrine of Creation

• Creation by the Numbers (January 2011)
• The Glory of God In The Heavens (December 2011)
• Psalm 104 and Genesis 1 in Graphic Display (December 2011)
• God’s Wise Restraint: Reflections on Common Grace (April 2012)
• Aesthetics Is Not Optional (July 2012)
• Aesthetics 101: Learning to Look for the Beauty of Christ (July 2012)
• What Happened “Before the Foundation of the World”? (August 2014)
• The Doctrine of Creation: A Necessary Part of Our Worship and Evangelism (June 2015)
• Don’t Waste Your Blizzard: A Snowy Meditation on God’s Power and Purity (January 2016)

Anthropology: The Doctrine of Humanity

• Pascal on the Glory and the Garbage of the Universe (February 2010)
• Gender-Specificity and the Gospel of Jesus Christ (August 2008)
• Last Things First: Meditations on the Image of God (October 2008)
• Sola Humanus: A New Sola for Those Always Reforming (October 2013)
• God’s View of Gender — Sermon Audio (October 2013)
• The Imago Dei: Surveying the Options (October 2013)
• The Image of God: A Covenantal Proposal (October 2013)
• The Image of God: Re-Imaging Our Personal Identity (October 2013)
• The Image of God and Public Theology (October 2013)
• Christ Did Not Come for Chimpanzees (November 2013)
• The ‘Heart’: A Biblical-Theological Sketch (March 2014)
• What is Evangelical Feminism? And Where Did It Come From? (November 2014)
• Thinking Biblically About Transgenderism (May 2015)
• The Priestly Aspect of the Imago Dei (July 2015)

Hamartiology: The Doctrine of Sin

• What Total Depravity Is Not (October 2013)
• Five Truths About the Sinfulness of Sin (May 2015)

Christology: The Person of Jesus Christ

• Jesus Has Absolute Authority (January 2010)
• Bauckham’s Jesus and The God of Israel (1): God Crucified (March 2009)
• Bauckham’s Jesus and The God of Israel (pt. 2): Other Studies in NT Christology (March 2009)
• Gathercole’s The Preexistent Son: Excellent Exegesis, Transcendent Theology, and a Methodological Model (March 2009)
• Martin Bucer on Christ as Prophet, Priest, and King  (October 2010)
• Ten Cultural Christs (July 2011)
• Jesus Knew His Calling: A Missional Christology (October 2013)
• The Word of God: Written, Eternal, and Incarnate (December 2011)
• On the Incarnation: How Should We Talk About Christmas? (December 2011)
• The Beauty of the Incarnation (August 2012)
• The Ongoing Priesthood of Jesus Christ (March 2013)
• More Than Baby Talk: A Primer on the Incarnation (November 2013)
• The Incarnation: Getting a Handle on Five Heresies (November 2013)
• One Solitary Life (December 2013)
• Exploring Kenotic Christology: A Book Review (March 2014)
• The Maleness of Christ: A Typological Necessity with Vast Ethical Implications (July 2015)

Christology: The Work of Christ

• Beware of ‘Airy Nothings’: Hugh Martin on the Atonement (September 2010)
• God’s Love: Particular in Its Design, Infinite in Its Offer (July 2012)
• Calvin, Indefinite Language, and Definite Atonement (December 2013)
• Putting the Resurrection on Display: Walking and Talking as Witnesses of the Gospel’s Power (January 2015)

Soteriology: The Doctrine of Salvation

• An Audio-Visual Primer on the New Perspective on Paul (September 2009)
• Sin Boldly: Because Only Sinners “Get” Amazing Grace (July 2010)
• A History Lesson on Hyper-Calvinism (July 2011)
• Robert Letham on Union with Christ (July 2012)
• What Do We Really Need? (November 2013)
• Saving Faith Savors Christ . . . and so much more (September 2014)

The Doctrines of Grace

• The Language of Election in the Bible: A Few Word Studies (August 2014)
• Singing the TULIP from the Baptist Hymnal (April 2015)
• What is Calvinism? (May 2015)
• The Greatest Misunderstanding About Evangelical Calvinism (May 2015)
• Two Common Confusions about Calvinism in Baptist History (June 2015)
• What Does the Bible Say about the Doctrine of Election? (February 2016)

Pneumatology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit

• A Spiritual Fruit Inventory (October 2010)
• Spirit-Filled Worship is Christ-Centered Worship (July 2015)

Ecclesiology: The Doctrine of the Church

• To What End Is the History of Israel?
  
• Carl Trueman on Academics and the Local Church (December 2008)
• P.T. O’Brien, W.E. Vine, and the Heavenly Assembly (November 2008)
• Corn Creek Baptist Church and the Spiritual Gift of Listening (May 2008)
• The Living Church (January 2010)
• The Baptismal Waters are Against You, Jesus is For You (January 2010)
• The Bible Doesn’t Say ‘Join a Church,’ So Why Should I? (February 2010)
• Church Discipline? (February 2010)
• Book Review: Deep Church by Jim Belcher (March 2010)
• A Display of Glory: The Wizard of Westwood, The Wisdom of God, and The Witness of Your Church (June 2010)
• Southern Baptists: An Unregenerate Denomination? (June 2010)
• Southern Baptists: An Unfinished Denomination (July 2010)
• The Centrifugal Mission of the Church (June 2014)
• Dramatizing the Gospel: Church Membership (December 2014)
• Book Notes: Church Planting is for Wimps (April 2015)
• Confronting Falsehood in the Church (April 2015)
• On Baptism and Children (May 2015)
• Confronting the Ingrown Church (June 2015)
• Believing and Belonging: Which is the Source for True Fellowship? (June 2015)
• God’s Marketing Strategy: Christ-Like Churches (June 2015)
• Life Together: A Short Review (October 2015)
• The Body of Christ Calls for Individuality, not Individualism (January 2016)
• A Better Understanding of Baptism (February 2016)
• A Perfect Balance: The Church Universal and Local (February 2016)
• Baptism, Membership, and Life Together in the Church (February 2016)
• How Does the Church Glorify God? (February 2016)

Elders

• What does the New Testament say about elders? (September 2014)
• Seven Things to Know About Elders (September 2014)
• Establish Elders for the Sake of Evangelism (September 2014)
• What is an Elder Supposed to Do? (September 2014)
• What Should Churches Do Who Have Elders? (October 2014)

Eschatology and Protology: The Doctrine of Last Things

• Eternal Judgment: An Unbelievable Problem or A Blessed Promise? (August 2012)
• Hell: A Terrible Problem or a Beautiful Promise? (August 2012)
• Eschatology from the Beginning (July 2013)
• Thinking About ‘Near Death Experiences’ (April 2014); Competing Visions of Heaven (May 2014)
• The Ultimate Question: How Do I Know I Will Go to Heaven When I Die? (August 2014)
• Where Do Infants Go When They Die? (September 2014)

ETHICS

• In the Fight Against Abortion, Truth Shall Set You Free (January 2012)
• Hold Them Back (A Sanctity of Life Message by Denny Burk) (January 2013)
• The Image of God and Public Theology (October 2013)
• An Introduction to Bioethics (October 2013)
• Is Capital Punishment Biblical? (May 2014)
• Where Do Infants Go When They Die? (September 2014)
• Dying with Dignity: What Should We Think About Euthanasia? (October 2014)
• Pastor, Speak Up for the Unborn (January 2016)