Cody S. Edds
@CodyEdds
Husband and Father. MDiv Alum @CBTSeminary. Imagination | Ministry | Systematics | Ethics
Speaking of J.H. Bavinck: What if Mere Christianity was written from a Dutch Reformed perspective? Would you read it? This has famously been called the Mere Christianity (Lewis) of orthodox Reformed Dutch thought.
Today is a great day to take your kids to McKay’s, play with them in the pool, read up on some neo-Calvinism psychology, and move on from the past. Also, this book includes the last theological piece @timkellernyc wrote before his passing. READ THIS BOOK!
Alright, I'll bite: Hey, @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was
Looks N.I.C.E.
Obama’s presidential library looks like…[FILL IN THE BLANK].
As a Reformed Baptist, I agree with this.
He puts out a simple explainer, and—predictably—here come the Baptists demanding dissertation-level precision. Not every article is an apologetic thesis. Not every post is a polemic. The insufferable need to nitpick everything is exhausting. I’ve lived this. When I left the…
"The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him." -Proverbs 18:17 God hates a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
Theology is necessary for a healthy prayer life: what is it to pray to a God who is able, but to believe the doctrine that He is all-powerful? Imagination is also necessary: what is it to pray for these things, but to imagine that God can do even more than what we ask of Him?
No matter how terribly someone has hurt you, by the grace of God—and by this grace alone—you can love them, forgive them, and move on. Like dishes drying in the sink or a post-war soldier meeting the enemy, all things give way to time; the call of God for patience and its fruit.
Everyone longs for and needs the love of Jesus. No book better exhibits this than J.H. Bavinck’s Jezus als Zielzorger (Jesus as a Pastor of Souls). This book needs to be translated. It’s been a joy to read and slowly work through the Dutch with a good friend this week.
I waited too long to read this. Genuinely a nuanced masterpiece.
Contra Matthew Barret, Baptist polity, when done right, offers external recourses for congregants who are abused by pastors.
Baptist Associations have authority, but not the Presbyterian kind. This has been a constant debate between me and a friend of mine who recently went Presbyterian after seeing a RB Association unable to confront a pastor due to lack of authority. Associations have the authority…