by Dawson Jarrell | Aug 16, 2022 | Christian Ethics, Doctrines
God’s Self-identification and Gender The church today needs to recover a simple priority. In theology, it is called the priority of the Father–Son relation over the Creator–creature relation [1]. Simply put, it is the proposition that before God was creator he...
by Dawson Jarrell | Aug 8, 2022 | Church History, Doctrines
Wesley on Authentic Experience of the Spirit. Throughout his life, John Wesley held to an orthodox view of the Holy Spirit as the third person of the Godhead. It was his trinitarian understanding of the God that informed his view of the Spirit’s role in the...
by Dawson Jarrell | Feb 8, 2022 | Doctrines
What is Repentance? by J.I.Packer One of the best explanations of Repentance I have ever read was by J.I. Packer. I have quoted it in full below. The excerpt is from Rediscovering Holiness by J.I. Packer, published by Regal Books, 2009. The except comes from chapter...
by Dawson Jarrell | Feb 8, 2022 | Doctrines
Towards a Definition of Repentance Today definitions are assumed rather than investigated. Yet we live and “define” our lives by them. A definition in need of investigation is repentance. A good way to get at defining such important and common terms is by...
by Dawson Jarrell | Jan 12, 2022 | Biblical studies, Doctrines
Christ in Mark God-man of action From start to finish, Jesus is the uncontested subject of the Gospel of Mark, and he is portrayed as a man of action. The action of the Gospel is all-important to the meaning of the Gospel, for we learn who Jesus is not so much from...
by Dawson Jarrell | May 24, 2021 | Christian Ethics, Doctrines
Ethics of Heresy (Part Two) Drawing the Line Determining “Heresy” is all about where to draw the line. It is both a doctrinal and an ethical question. Ultimately it is something we aim at much like a bulls eye. It is equally misguided to draw the boundaries too...
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