Tag Archives: Kierkegaard

Sickness Unto Death

Posted on April 3, 2014 by PaulVK

Why Didn’t Jesus Just Start Raising Lots of People? We saw with the Iranian Cleric raising the dead thought experiment that a person possessing this kind of power walking around among us would almost certainly provoke us to kill this person … Continue reading →

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Why "balance" isn't the right word in measuring preaching on justification and sanctification

Posted on October 26, 2009 by PaulVK

This is a repost from Jan 2007. I think it might be something I wrote for CRC-Voices. This phrase of yours caught my attention: All good preaching and leading will have the blessed balance of both content and process because … Continue reading →

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Tim Keller's use of identity in his theology

Posted on October 26, 2009 by PaulVK

I originally posted this in Oct of 2006 A key theme that Keller works again and again has to do with the concept of identity. All preachers use what I call pathways. These are ways to easily get from here … Continue reading →

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Why Jesus was indirect with "sinners" and direct with the "righteous"

Posted on October 26, 2009 by PaulVK

This is a repost from June 2007 This was from a Voices discussion about sin and church discipline. 1.   The gravity of sin. It is hard to overstate the calamity, devastation, and bondage that sin is. In my Synoptic Gospels … Continue reading →

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On loving the process at the expense of Sabbath rest

Posted on October 26, 2009 by PaulVK

Rachel Held Evans is a young author whose first book will be coming out next year. She has a blog and I thought this post was illuminating with respect to our culture. She talks about loving the process of constructing … Continue reading →

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