A feather in your theological cap.
The personal blog of Bible curriculum editor, PhD candidate, and runner Brent Niedergall
Valentine’s Edition: Dating Your Spouse
I originally posted this on Jan. 28, 2021, as "A Theology of Dating Your Spouse." Back in 2012 on a small Army base in eastern Afghanistan, I read a book with an eye-catching cover by Justin Buzzard titled Date Your Wife. If memory serves me right, it was a good...
300SOT#2: What Is Revelation?
What if God never made Himself known? https://youtu.be/L0oXlxpZ7T0 What is revelation? As Bernard Ramm put it: "In its broadest sense “revelation is the sum total of the ways in which God makes himself known” (17). We could never know God—we could never...
What Should I Read on the Septuagint?
Happy International Septuagint Day! And there's no better way to celebrate than to immerse yourself in the exciting world of the Septuagint—a rich land of excitement, adventure, and reward. If you're new to the game or thinking about getting started, where should you...
Bavinck: Religion and Relationship
What do people mean when they say the Christian religion is a relationship? Some of the simplest and most profound words I’ve read so far in Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics are these: To be unknown is to be unloved (1:268). In reference to God, not only is this...
When Will Things Get Better?
Life is full of expectation and waiting. We’re always waiting for something! The weekend Seeing friends and family The release of a book or a movie or a video game The next season of The Mandalorian The end of COVID. We’re always waiting for something to come. We...
300SOT #1: What Is Theology?
https://youtu.be/Pws3-f1lhC8 What is theology? Theology is the study of God. It’s setting forth the thoughts of God. It’s what A.H. Strong called “The science of God and of the relations between God and universe” (1). It’s actually even more than that, but I’ll come...
Sunday Prayer (Psalm 137)
This is the latest in the series of corporate prayers for Sunday worship that I’m writing from the Psalms, working through them in reverse order. Heavenly Father, We come before you as a church family—each of us with our own mix of experiences and emotions. ...
A Theology of Dating Your Spouse
Back in 2012 on a small Army base in eastern Afghanistan, I read a book with an eye-catching cover by Justin Buzzard titled Date Your Wife. If memory serves me right, it was a good read. But what has stuck with me more than anything is its simple little imperatival...
Japanese Beetles and a Generous Master
Ever worked for pennies? Years ago, a friend and I got paid to catch Japanese Beetles. My friend’s neighbour and pastor had this gigantic garden. And he agreed to pay us a penny for every Japanese Beetle we could pull off his plants and throw into a bucket of...
Bavinck: Underestimating and Overestimating Dogmatics
I recently had to break the news to one of my children that Africa is a continent. Africa is not a country. And Scripture is not dogmatics. Dogma (and its nearly identical twin, systematic theology) is derived from Scripture. Bavinck uses the analogy of Scripture...