Truth & Love Blog
Every Square Inch of Human Existence: Kuyper on God’s All-Encompassing Common Grace
Denying the all-encompassing nature of common grace in the life of the unbeliever is saying that God has handed the non-Christian world over to Satan.
Healing for the Holidays: 2024
Loss is always hard; at the holidays it can feel overwhelming. Jesus gives you permission to grieve, and He gives you His promise of hope.
What Is Common Grace?
An introduction to the doctrine of common grace, including what theological issues need to be included in a fair and balanced discussion.
John Frame on Common Grace, Biblical Counseling, and Christian Integrative Counseling
John Frame, the student and interpreter of Van Til, concludes that, “the sufficiency of Scripture is compatible with the need to integrate Scripture with extrabiblical data.” What do you think?
Cornelius Van Til: “Zombie-Infected”?
Van Til taught that Christians “should look sympathetically” upon spiritually dead people who “analyze people and their problems”—zombie psychologists!
Abraham Kuyper on Common Grace
What does theologian (and Prime Minister) Abraham Kuyper teach us about how Christians should view and use information from non-Christians?
Cornelius Van Til on Common Grace: In His Own Words
Van Til is one of the most conservative Reformed thinkers on common grace. Yet, he taught that believers can use findings from unbelievers.
John Calvin: “Integrationist”?
Calvin, Kuyper, Bavinck, Van Til, and biblical counselors who recognize non-Christian common grace insights are not frustrated with the Scriptures and fascinated with the secular.
Van Til, Kuyper, Bavinck, and Biblical Counselors: An Assessment
Can biblical counselors legitimately follow the common grace teachings of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck? What would Van Til say?
Biblical Counseling and Premature Closure (“I’m Not Listening to You!”)
“I’m not listening to you! You are outside my tribe!”
