Recollections on the Colloquium on Predestination
Some images from the recent Colloquim on Predestination.
Category: faith
A Lecture on Predestination
I’m going to speak tonight on the Reformed doctrine of Predestination at the Presbyterian Seminary. If you are around Asunción, you’re invited to a...
Merry Christmas and Happy 2022
Merry Christmas! Hope you had a great Christmas Day with your loved ones and family. We spent Christmas Eve in a nice dinner with Mom, my sister at my cousins&#...
Journal Article: “The Dordrecht Synod at 400: A Guide for the Church in Times of Crysisâ€
The end of the year is nearing, and if it was hectic before, now we are reaching “core meltdown†status. However, in moments of rare respite within this rac...
A Mystery and Then, a Frantic Search
I finished writing my previous post and dutifully clicked the big, yellow “Publish” button. I then clicked on the “View Post” link, wish...
Horrific News at the Southern Baptist Convention
Over 700 victims. At least 380 perpetrators. A devastaing investigation published in two of Texas’ highest respected newspapers, the Houston Chronicle and...
Happy Reformation Day
Yesterday marked the 500th anniversary of the occassion where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on indulgences at the door of the castle church of Wittenberg. ...
A Useless Polemic
LucÃa Caram sparks anger in Spain after appearing to contradict Catholic teaching on perpetual virginity of mother of Jesus Source: Nun receives death threats ...
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2017
I would like to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I hope you all had a great time of festivities and a good time with your family and ...
Why I Don’t Celebrate Halloween
Note: This weekend many people will celebrate Halloween in many places. I deeply disagree with such celebration. Today I share some thoughts I wrote in Facebook...
Aquinas: The Duty of the Wise Person
While reading Aquinas’ Summa Against Gentiles, I found this little gem in the very beginning of the work: Now, the end of each thing is that which is inte...
Happy Birthday John Calvin!
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated; ...
Article on Borges and the Protestant Bible (In Spanish)
Today an article I wrote about the influence of the Protestant Bible on Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published (in Spanish) at the Paraguayan newspape...
God’s Mercy Should Prompt Our Mercy
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked…Â But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, ev...
A False Dichotomy
Today is Father’s Day so first things first: Happy Father’s Day! I hope you can spend this day with your loved ones and your family. So far, here i...
My Only Comfort: The Modesty Debate
Sam Powell is pastor of First Reformed Church in Yuba City, CA, (USA), and the face behind the blog My Only Comfort. Browsing over Tim Challies‘ A la ...
Young Single Christian Ladies: Christ is NOT Your Husband
One of these days I was in conversation with a single young lady who was passionate in her zeal in following Christ. When the conversation turned on the subject...
Merry Christmas!
I hope you have a merry Christmas. My sincere wish is that you all spend these days in God’s presence, with much joy and surrounded of the affection of yo...
Published at the Zubiri Review
Remember that I graduated from Calvin Seminary as a Master of Theology? Well, if that’s the case you might also remember that i majored in Philosophical T...
Jason Franklin: Stepping Forward after Getting Knocked Back…Again
Our strength fails, but God never does. We grow weary, but God is never tired. We become discouraged, but God is Sovereign… Not that all things are good o...
Aquinas on Hope
Wherefore, in so far as we hope for anything as being possible to us by means of the Divine assistance, our hope attains God Himself, on Whose help it leans. It...
Ed Hurst on Total Depravity
Some thoughtful words from my namesake Ed Hurst: The Fall is within us. It afflicts Creation because we don’t understand it and all our actions and though...
Tim Challies on the influence of Christianity
There is a pervasive tendency to ignore our Christian heritage and how Christianity introduced a respect for life and liberty that was completely unknown before...
Graduated from Seminary
Some of you may know that I was a graduate student at Calvin Theological Seminary. From 2000 to 2002, I was a student in residence for the Master of Theology de...
Disturbing trends among Paraguayan evangelicals
The last weeks brought a lot of new developments and I plan to share them soon. But now I’d like to report that the Paraguayan evangelical church has show...
The Gospel is not merely an affair of the tongue…
John Calvin on the unity of doctrine and life: For [the Gospel] is a doctrine not of the tongue but of life. It is not apprehended by the understanding and memo...
Happy Easter!
The Lord is risen! I hope everyone has a great Easter. As a token of celebration, let me share with you this magnificent piece of music: the Ouverture from the ...
The Subversion of God in Aronofsky’s Noah | Godawa’s MovieBlog
And even more yet on Noah. This commentary by Brian Godawa is very good. The Subversion of God in Aronofsky’s Noah | Godawa’s MovieBlog.
Sympathy For The Devil — Dr. Brian Mattson
More on Noah: the movie. Dr. Brian Mattson points some interesting issues that I also suspected. In short, he exposes Noah as an apology of Kabbalistic Gnostici...