Selected Reading

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Kids

If You Want Your Kids to Own their Fath, Teach Them to Think Criticall About Their Faith
A long title for an important article: “It’s good to teach your child what to believe. But that’s not enough. We also need to teach them how to think. Simply put, if we want our kids to own their faith, we need to train them to think critically about their faith.”

Little Kids Need Big Biblical Words
Because (hopefully) they will grow up into them. 

Theology

Is the Doctrine of Imputation Taught in Scripture?
Some people claim it isn’t, but in this short video Guy Waters shows that it’s taught in both the Old and New Testaments.

Authority of Scripture
Another video, this one from The Gospel Project’s The 99 in :99 series.

Theological Term of the Week: Ectype

ectype
“A copy of the archetype. In theology, the creature is the ectype and God is the archetype.”1 Human knowledge, for instance, is ectypal. It is an imitation of God’s knowledge—derived from his knowledge and only a finite likeness of it.

• From scripture:

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… .

So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them. 

(Genesis 1:26-27 ESV)

• From Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof on human ectypal personality: 

We should be careful … not to set up man’s personality as a standard by which the personality of God must be measured. The original form of personality is not in man but in God; His is archetypal, while man’s is ectypal. The latter is not identical with the former, but does contain faint traces of similarity with it… . What appears as imperfect in man exists in infinite perfection in God.

Learn more:

1. Herman Bavinck: The Archetypal/Ectypal Distinction

Related terms:

• accomodation
• archetype
• image of God

1 From None Greater by Matthew Barrett.

Filed under Anthropology

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Sunday's Hymn: My Hope is Built

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest upon unchanging grace;
In ev’ry rough and stormy gale
My anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, his covenant, his blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

When I shall launch in worlds unseen,
O may I then be found in him;
Dressed in his righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

—Ed­ward Mote

 Other hymns, worship songs, or quotes for this Sunday:

• Christ Is Thy Light at The Happy Wonderer
• And Speaking of the Church at The Outspoken Tulip
• Our Hiding Place at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 36, 2019 at The Thirsty Theologian