Michael Roberts

For various reasons, the words “scholar” and “pastor” are not put together as they once were.  There was once a time when the minister was the most educated man in the community.  And there came with that a concern, and…

Limited Atonement The third point in Reformed theology’s famous acrostic suffers from something of an identity problem.  As it has been often observed, the preferred way to describe the doctrine in question is that of either definite atonement or particular…

John Owen, the seventeenth-century English Puritan, wrote of an imagined reaction in heaven by the Son of God in response to the fall of Adam and Eve, and what he purposed to do in response: Poor creature!  how woful is…

Prior to the Protestant Reformation, theological reflection was generally in the realm of what we would today call systematic theology.  As can be seen by its name, the goal is to systematize or order the teaching of the Bible into…

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”  But how does one know such a danger exists unless one already possesses an interest in, and respect for, people who lived and thought and wrote in the past?  And…

We live in a fast-paced and busy world. It is now no longer true of only the world’s great cities; such is also a characteristic of the unknown towns of suburbia. Technology of course is one reason. Keeping up with…

Introduction Because Christ is Lord of all, there is no one throughout the world who is not obligated to render to Jesus the glory that belongs to him as the crucified, risen, and ascended Savior and Judge. As Christians share…

There are three basic approaches or schools of what is called “apologetics.”  This word comes directly from the Greek, which has to do with the idea of giving a defense.  So what is being talked about is how one goes…