Category Archives: Theologians

B. B. Warfield on the Divinity and Humanity of the Bible

By Ryan Martin | Published: April 13, 2012

From B. B. Warfield’s classic account of the doctrine of Scripture: How [the Scripture] was given through [the human authors] is left …, if not without suggestion, yet without specific explanation. We seem safe only in inferring this much: that the gift of Scripture through its human authors took place by a process much more [...]

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How does faith save?

By Ryan Martin | Published: July 20, 2011

Thomas Watson explains how faith saves: “If a man had a precious stone in a ring that could heal, we should say the ring heals; but properly it is not the ring, but he precious stone in the ring that heals. Thus faith saves and justifies, but it is not any inherent virtue in faith, [...]

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Critique of Harold Camping and the end of the world on May 21st

By Ryan Martin | Published: May 20, 2011

Robert Godfrey of Westminster Seminary in California, though we would have some important differences with him on eschatology, has an excellent critique of Harold Camping and his teaching at the seminary’s faculty blog, “Valiant for Truth.” Especially helpful are Godfrey’s notes on Camping’s heresy of the church and salvation. Here are all the links: Summary [...]

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Spurgeon on the salvation of infants

By Ryan Martin | Published: April 10, 2011

On Sunday, April 10th, we discussed the doctrine of original sin, and with it I mentioned a message by Charles Haddon Spurgeon on the salvation of infants. His sermon is available at spurgeon.org.

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D. A. Carson on the God of the OT vs the God of the NT

By Ryan Martin | Published: February 27, 2011

I mentioned this video in Sunday School on February 27th, while discussing the immutability of God. Here D. A. Carson answers the problem of reconciling the God of the Old Testament with the God of the New. You can find more apologetic videos like this, addressing a whole host of issues, at ehrmanproject.org.

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Self-love and concupiscence … hold it back

By Ryan Martin | Published: February 24, 2011

One of Blaise Pascal’s “proofs” for Christianity: The Christian’s God is a God who makes the soul aware that he is its sole good: that in him alone can it find peace; that only in loving him can it find joy: and who at the same time fills it with loathing for the obstacles which [...]

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Jonathan Edwards on being a “watchman”

By Ryan Martin | Published: January 27, 2011

Last Tuesday night at our “Watchmen” men’s meeting, I mentioned a passage in a book about how Jonathan Edwards looked at himself as a “watchman” after the pattern of Ezekiel 3 in his preaching about the judgment of God. The name of the book is Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word: A Model [...]

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Enduring evil “like the moon walking in her brightness”

By Ryan Martin | Published: January 12, 2011

Jonathan Edwards speaks here of the importance of long-suffering from his sermon on 1 Corinthians 13:4, “Charity suffereth long and is kind.” This spirit of Christian long-suffering and meekly to bear injuries is a true greatness of soul. It shows a fine and noble valor for persons thus to maintain the calm of their minds; [...]

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Man’s highest happiness

By Ryan Martin | Published: January 7, 2011

The words of the 18C pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards: “Man’s highest happiness consists in holiness. It is by this the reasonable creature is united to God, the fountain of all good. Happiness does so essentially consist in knowing and loving and serving God, and having a holy and divine temper of soul, and the [...]

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“Verbal symptoms of our deep disease”

By Ryan Martin | Published: January 6, 2011

Last night the young people and I read this together in A. W. Tozer’s Pursuit of God, where he laments that God has been forced out of the central place He should have in the human heart, only to be replaced by things: Our woes began when God was forced out of His central shrine [...]

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