Episode 58: Over-Realized Eschatology in Worship Music
In this episode, Rob and Jody sit down with Dr. Matthew Westerholm to discuss the influence of over-realized eschatology in our worship music and why it’s a problem.
In this episode, Rob and Jody sit down with Dr. Matthew Westerholm to discuss the influence of over-realized eschatology in our worship music and why it’s a problem.
The Gospel Coalition Canada seeks to renew the church by the Gospel. As part of that effort, we have released a number of podcasts on our site. Paul Carter hosts Into the Word, which helps listeners to read and understand the Bible. We have just started a bi-monthly podcast on worship called Worship God. The In & Through podcast seeks to dive deeper in and through the Word. Later this year, we will release a weekly podcast on prayer. Today, however, we want to announce a new weekly podcast called Into Theology. Theology In this podcast, we want to invite...
Christian worship begins and ends in the worship of the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matt 28:19; Rev 4–5). Yet some object to the doctrine of the trinity as if it were some external imposition upon Scripture. It is not. Our theology of God flows from our worship of his triune name. Baptism The first act and entrance into the Christian faith is baptism into the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Jesus commissioned his disciples to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them...
Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706) lived during a key transition from a world with medieval sensibilities to a world of enlightenment. He studied liberal arts and theology, the latter of which he underwent at the Academy of Utrecht. Here, he learned the standard theological textbooks of the Reformed such as Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae alongside exegetical studies of Scripture (1:xxvi). Mastricht thus ministered within the mainstream of Reformed scholasticism, namely, a method of discerning truth by asking questions, listing objections, responding to objections, and stating positively the truth of the topic. In 1677, Mastricht himself took a position at the Academy...
A woman who is a theologian first can in turn do the good works, teach with wisdom, discern truth, smile at the future, and fear God. Each of these aspects that make up her godly beauty begin with a firm knowledge of the truth.