Michael Cooper, Jr. Pastor of Grace Community Church in Mabank Texas. Following up from Part 1 on defending substitution, in this post I'll discuss Romans 3:21-26 as one of the primary paragraphs that highlights this particular doctrine by looking at its semantic function and structure. Romans 3:21-26 as the Internal Mechanism of Penal Substitution It [...]
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Preaching and Defending Penal Substitution (Part 1)
Michael Cooper, Jr. Pastor of Grace Community Church in Mabank Texas. The cross of Jesus Christ stands at the center of redemptive history. As a result the nature of the atonement is pivotal in Christian theology and subsequently the Christian life. Throughout Church history there have been many proposals concerning the "center" of the atonement. [...]
3 Reasons to Teach Systematic Theology in the Local Church
Joshua Hebert, Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Kemp Texas. In January of 2017 I began teaching through a systematic theology at my church on Wednesday evenings, and in mid-2018 we completed the study. At some points the endeavor was rather challenging: a number of weeks I wound up spending more time preparing for my [...]
7 Theological Attributes of the Church
When it comes to the idea of "Church", many people have various memories that come to mind. For me the memory is rather odd. It has to do with "smell" of all things. The church my family attended when I was growing up smelled like that 1960's. Now granted I wasn't around during the 60's [...]
What is The Already and The Not Yet?
"And it is our prayer in faith that God will raise up a new generation of pastors capable of fulfilling the responsibility to which they have been called, to provide theological leadership to the church, that the church might be renewed in life and mission - for the glory of her Savior and the advance [...]