The Tulip Driven Life

By: Thomas F. Booher I want to explain something that I believe to be of the utmost importance. I think that we need to understand, in layman's terms, what a healthy church really is. We need to be be able to understand the biblical view of what a church ought to be doing, what it ought not to be doing, and we also need to be aware of potential pitfalls and hindrances to healthy churches, especially the ones that often manifest themselves in our own neck of the woods.  I am going to assume that my audience has some familiarity with Reformed theology and the Westminster Standards. Otherwise this post would be far too long because it would require answering, not so much what is a healthy church, but what is a church in general. Of course, a church is a church. If it is doing what God has called it to do, it is going to be healthy. So what has God called the church to be?  Well, to keep the scope where it needs to be for the purpose of this article, a church need...

REFORMATION INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BOOK SUMMARY: THY WORD IS TRUTH Thomas Booher SYS 501 Systematic Theology January 5, 2017 Professor Edward J. Young’s Thy Word is Truth is a helpful book that defines and defends the doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture. He demonstrates that this doctrine is indispensable; without it one cannot rely upon the Bible as the inerrant word of God, and thus man must become the ultimate arbiter concerning which parts of the Bible are truly God’s word and which are not. In contrast, to establish the doctrine of inspiration grants complete confidence in the whole Bible as God’s word, solidifying the statements about man, sin, Christ, and salvation by evoking the eternal truth of God Himself as man’s guide for all of life. The whole of the Christian faith stands or falls on the doctrine of inspiration, and it is for this reason that a careful summary of each chapter of Young’s book on inspi...