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Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. The debate about biblical manhood and womanhood has moved beyond word studies and disputes about the flow of thought in Paul’s Epistles.[1] As summarized in an account of “Feminisms, Then and Now,” From the outset of second-wave feminist activism in the 1960s,...
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Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. There are many books and articles on leadership. Too many. But few courageously address the issue of male only pastoral leadership and why it is necessary. The Bible teaches that the church’s elders are to be men, yet this foundational, biblical truth...
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Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. From the Pastor’s Desk How are you doing as a man? A father? A husband? A friend? What is the state of your family (and if unmarried, then other relationships)? Does your family zealously love Jesus Christ? How do you know? To...
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Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. Jesus Christ uses intimate language to communicate with his Father. In his grace, he shares that intimacy with us, and invites us to call him our Father. When Christ taught his apostles the Lord’s Prayer, he taught all Christians how to pray...
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Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. The one true and living God is named Father in many texts of both the Old and New Testaments. Isaiah cries out to God on behalf of Israel, saying, “O LORD, you are our Father” (Isa. 64:8). Jesus taught his followers to...
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Editor’s note: The following essay appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Eikon. A short time before his death, eighteenth-century London Baptist pastor John Gill (1697–1771) put the finishing touches on his monumental Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity. Near the end of this work — which comprised a summary of the doctrine he had...
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