A Monumental Review
A quick review of Kirk Cameron’s movie, Monumental. And no, i don’t burn any books. I don’t have anymore hyperpret books to burn. ( :
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The Hunger Games Movie Review
I took the boy last night to the opening of The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross (Pleasantville, BIG, Seabiscuit) and based on the novel by Suzanne Collins. The theatre was packed with fathers and teenagers. It was a scene. I went into the movie with very little information. My... -
Review of Off Target by John Noe
John Noe has created one of the largest marketing campaigns for a Full Preterist (FP) that I have seen to date. His last book, Hell Yes? Hell No!, published by his own arm, East2West Press, equally garnered some press. No, it won’t be on the NY Times Bestsellers list, but... -
The Temple and the Church’s Mission
Back in my hyperpreterist days, a friend gifted me with G.K. Beale’s book The Temple and the Church’s Mission. I thought it was a great read. Strangely however, the overarching purpose of creation that is explained in the book never settled in my mind. As i did with so many orthodox... -
Bible Matrix II: The Covenant Key
Mike Bull has recently sent me his new book, The Bible Matrix II: The Covenant Key (Westbow Press, 2011). Like his Bible Matrix, this one is full of “patterns”. Did you ever think that Esther, probably one of the most neglected books in the Bible, was covenantal in structure and... -
Dumbest Book Ever?
I have finished re-reading Frank Viola’s book, Pagan Christianity, and I must say, “whew…glad that mindless waste of time is over!” Viola’s sources for his “anti-church” view are mostly liberals. Take Will Durant, for example. Durant was an adamant anti-Christian, and agnostic. Yet, this is one of Viola’s sources. What... -
Movie Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
I am a huge fan of the Apes movies. As a kid growing up in the seventies, I got to see two of them in the theaters. Of course, the first one was 1968 and the huge hit, The Planet of the Apes with Chuck Heston and Rod McDowell. Classic. ... -
Creation and Change: Genesis 1.1-2.4 in Light of Changing Scientific Paradigms
Douglas F. Kelly, Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary (North Carolina), has written a masterful defense of a literal interpretation of Genesis (titled in the heading, Mentor Press, 2002). I rank it up there with James B. Jordan’s work on the six days of creation. The main thrust... -
Review of Mike Bull’s, Bible Matrix
Mike Bull recently sent me a copy of his book, Bible Matrix: An Introduction to the DNA of Scriptures, 2010, Westbow Press. Peter Leithart, who I began reading when studying the book of Samuel, writes the introduction. Leithart, as many of you may know, is a close student of the... -
Re: The Test of Truth
Ironically, a book that emphasizes context and attempts to localize what has been often understood as global, now rips these verses from their immediate context and attempts to globalize, so to speak, what is in actuality limited. -
Review of “Logic” by Gordon Clark
A Book Review of Gordon H. Clark’s Logic (The Trinity Foundation, 1998) 140 pages. In the “Introduction” to this book, John Robbins asks the most pertinent question, “Why Study Logic?” Logic, which is defined as “the science of necessary inference,” is often belittled as unnecessary. After all, we are... -
Chapter Summary of Three Types of Religious Philosophy by Gordon Clark
This book, published originally in 1973, offers again the scope of Clark’s epistemological theory against rationalism, empiricism, and irrationalism. Dogmatism is Clark’s theory. By the use of reduction, Clark asserts that dogmatic principles are the hallmark of every system, rational or empirical. “Thus a presuppositionaless description is impossible” for anyone... -
Analysis of Gordon Clark’s Faith and Saving Faith
“Without faith it is impossible to please God” the writer of Hebrews tells us. So, there should not be any real difficulty with explaining what faith is. Faith, as a word, occurs hundreds of times in the Scripture. Gordon Clark, however, dispels any notion in his book, Faith and Saving...
Iron Sharpens Iron