Sublime

If Edwards was pushing his people up the hill of holiness, making priests of them all, Beecher layman-ized the priesthood, making the pastor just like one of the people.

To be conformed to the image of his Son is not only to think God’s thoughts after him but to desire what God desires. That requires the recalibration of our heart-habits and the recapturing of our imagination, which happens when God’s Word becomes the orienting center of our social imaginary, shaping our very perception of things before we even thi

Abe calls God “the LORD who provides.”

Pastors, personal holiness begins in the quietude of your study or office or bedside. Holiness begins in your meditation on the written word and supplication to the risen Word. But it is made an example outside the office door.

I adopt Hunter’s “faithfully present within” culture approach, augmented by Andy Crouch’s insight that Christians are called to be creators and cultivators of the good, true, and beautiful. Alternative accounts of cultural apologetics could be developed that explicitly endorse one or another of Niebuhr’s possible positions on Christ and culture.

against same-sex marriage.

However, Owen’s doctrine of sanctification is particularly relevant because he thoroughly explained the internal work of the Holy Spirit in making believers holy, as well as how this work manifests both in the internal functions of the heart and in external acts of righteousness. Thus, Owen emphasized the importance of internal motivation and exter