Articles


Devotional reflections and long-form theological articles written by Greenville Seminary faculty, offering accessible insights on Scripture, doctrine, and Christian living.

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Should Pastors Know the Biblical Languages?

Argues seminaries must require Hebrew and Greek instead of software, because languages reveal biblical nuance and deepen love for God’s Word. Calls for stronger pastoral training.

What Is Reformed Scholasticism?

Survey of Reformed scholasticism—its history, methods (quaestio, disputations, declamations), and role in teaching Reformed orthodoxy, with its uses and potential abuses.

The Church’s Confidence

The Bible portrays believers as soldiers engaged in spiritual warfare against the world, the flesh, and the devil. Put on God’s armor and find courage in the church triumphant.

What Misery Does Sin Bring?

Argues that all earthly misery flows from sin and the Fall; disasters may not punish specific sins but function to call people to repentance, drawing on Luke 13 and the WLC.

The Church and Missions

Affirms the Church as Christ’s gathered, covenant community—visible and invisible—tasked to evangelize through communal love, obedience to Scripture, opposition to evil, and worship by the Spirit.

What Is Christ’s Humiliation and Why Is It Important?

Explains Christ’s states of humiliation and exaltation: the eternal Son became man, lived obediently, died and rose to mediate salvation. His incarnation, life, death, and burial secure our redemption.

Honor

Examines honor as a biblical virtue—its traits (humility, faithfulness, grace) and the duty to render honor to parents, authorities, and neighbors, grounded in Scripture and Westminster teaching.

Why Is the Covenant of Grace Important?

Explains covenant theology: the covenant of works vs the covenant of grace, with Christ as Mediator and surety, and election as the basis of salvation in the Westminster catechism.

The Reasons for Church Conflict

Examines causes of church conflict (sinful desires and worldliness) and offers biblical remedies: self-examination, repentance, mutual forbearance, and reliance on God’s increasing grace.

How God Communicates to Us His Counsel

Summarizes WCF 1.6: Scripture alone contains all necessary revelation; we interpret it by its express statements and by “good and necessary consequence,” aided by the Spirit’s illumination.

Every Father’s Calling

A pastoral guide urging fathers to obey Ephesians 6:4 by raising children in ‘nurture and admonition’—balancing loving discipline with positive instruction. Practical steps: Scripture reading, catechisms, family worship.

Letting Our “Yes” Be Yes

A call for Christian integrity: match words with actions. Using James, Proverbs and Job, the author warns that leaders’ double lives damage families, churches, and ministry.

Where Do Christians Go When They Die?

Surveys the Bible’s teaching on heaven, the bodily resurrection, and the new heavens and earth: God’s transcendent presence, transformed bodies, and a restored creation.

Moses’s Life Is a Movie Trailer

Reads Moses’ birth narrative as a typological preview of Israel’s exodus and of Christ’s redemptive work, tracing a recurring water-to-mountain pattern from Genesis to Exodus and Hebrews.

The Catholic Puritan

Survey of John Owen’s teaching on eternal generation: the Son eternally receives the divine essence from the Father, grounding Trinitarian order and the work of salvation.

What Is the Church and Why Is It Necessary?

Affirms the visible and invisible church are one: the visible church is God’s covenant society where we hear the gospel and are called to faith. Cites WLC/WCF and Scripture.

The Exodus Prefigured

Examines Genesis 12–15, portraying Abraham’s call and departures (Ur, Egypt) as an ‘exodus’ that foreshadows Israel’s deliverance and reveals Yahweh as the God of the exodus.

Is God Judging the World?

Considers whether modern crises are God’s judgment through the lens of Revelation. Argues Revelation depicts limited, warning judgments that call the world to repentance and faith.

Augustine of Hippo

Overview of Augustine’s ministry in Hippo, his Confessions and The City of God, and pastoral counsel on suffering, providence, and caring for abuse survivors.

Appropriating the Means of Grace

The church’s means of grace—preaching, sacraments, and prayer—are instruments by which believers, through faith and preparation, receive and grow in salvation.

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