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August 2008 Archive
Who Should Go to Seminary? (2)
Part 1. Anyone may go to seminary but not every one should go to seminary. The second part of the answer is who should not go to seminary. Before I continue let me say, for the sake of our current students, that I . . . Continue reading →
Unable to Verify Healings
CT reports about the Lakeland “revival,”
Who Should Go to Seminary? (1)
Dan writes to ask this question. It’s a good and important question and the answer is in two parts: anyone but not everyone. First, anyone may go to seminary. Since I teach at a seminary and I know how we operate, I’ll . . . Continue reading →
New Confessional Presbyterian Journal Coming In Sept (Dv)
The latest CPJ should be available next month. This is a substantial journal that bridges the gap between the purely popular, the purely ecclesiastical, and the purely academic. In the spirit of another time, the CPJ is accessible, intelligent, unapologetically Reformed, and churchly (which is . . . Continue reading →
Steve Baugh Reviews Sparks' "God's Words"
At Ref21
So You Are About to Begin a Pastoral Search
This is a sensitive topic. People don’t always think rationally or biblically or confessionally about the office of pastor. Many folk don’t understand what ministers do and most people who are involved in the pastoral search process are well-meaning but inexperienced. Most . . . Continue reading →
Coming to Print: Against Heresies: the Interviews
Martin explains.
So Easy a Child Can Do it…or Sectarian Child Abuse?
The world’s youngest preacher. Alex wrote to ask if this is QIRC or QIRE. It’s definitely the latter.
Princeton, Fuller, and WTS: Breaking the Pattern
Carl Trueman has a thoughtful essay on the struggle of confessional seminaries to fulfill the vocation to to serve the church faithfully , to meet the highest academic standards, and to avoid the pattern of decline into broad evangelicalism.
Is Bibliolatry Possible?
Steve Baugh has the answer.
Strimple-Malone Baptism Debate Online
At WSC.
If You Want to Know About John Owen
Carl Trueman is your man. I know it’s unusual to see me flogging someone else’s book. That’s why you should pay attention when I do so. This is a really good book. Why? Because Carl is an excellent scholar who . . . Continue reading →
When a Monocovenantal Scheme Isn’t
From Robert Rollock, Questiones Et Responsiones Aliquot De Foedere Dei (Edinburgh, 1596), 3: Q. Quotuplex est foedus Dei cum homine percussum? R. Duplex est: foedus naturae sive operum, et foedus gratiae. Gal. 4.24 [Question: How manyfold is the covenant of God struck with . . . Continue reading →
The "Novelty" of Republication…in 1597?
For this cause, when he was to repeat that covenant of works to the people of Israel, he first gave the law written in tables of stone; then he made a covenant with his people saying, “Do these things and ye shall . . . Continue reading →
We Do Have the Autographa
The question arose on the PB, “Why is it OK that we don’t have the original autographs?”
Once More: Lutheran or Reformed?
10. What is the difference between the law and the gospel?
Flash: Reformed Writer Uses Two Kingdoms
I’m working an essay on the history of covenant theology for a collection edited by Herman Selderhuis to be published by Brill in 2009. I just ran across something that I should have noticed, thought about or remembered years ago but didn’t. . . . Continue reading →
Recovering The Reformed Confession: the Table Of Contents
There have been a few requests to see the table of contents. Here it is: