Category: John Bunyan

Justin Taylor Can Hope Be Wrong? On the New Universalists The above post reference a great short article by James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College. There is great insight into this issue looking at it in this context. After reading the Smith post, I could not help but recall how in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s… Continue reading New Universalism

Kevin DeYoung has a great analogy of flight attendants to preachers...passengers to the congregation.This is so true today. I think I'll reread my copy of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or see the movie.....But listen to Hebrews 2:1-4.Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. For since… Continue reading Fasten your seatbelts please

Justin TaylorAre You Sure You Want to Follow Me?If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.John Bunyan paraphrases:Following of me is not like following of some other masters. The wind sits always on my face and the foaming rage of the sea of this… Continue reading Someone else reading Bunyan

I was thinking about this idea of how over time we seem to progress from religious conservatism to liberalism.This came up in our Westminster Confession of Faith Study....how in the early 20th Century Neo-Orthodoxy which was too save the church ended up laying the solid intellectual ground work that has led us to deny, reinterpret… Continue reading Changes in original intent….