CT has a story about the struggle within the Southern Baptist Convention to begin reporting real membership numbers. The reported number has long been 16.5 million. The real number of folks who actually show up is about 6.5 million.
2008 Archive
Ligon Duncan Introducing Covenant Theology
At Sermon Audio. (HT: Martin Downes. More resources for those just beginning to study covenant theology.
The Sophistication of Puritan Exegesis
Sinclair Ferguson made the same point in his lecture on baptism in the assembly. The English (and more broadly British) Reformed were more sophisticated in their reading of Scripture than we sometime think.
Rowland Ward Reviews Andy McGowan on Scripture
Here. (HT: Lig Duncan)
The Spirit and the Pactum
More good stuff from Mark.
Speaking of Putting God in a Box
Shane Lems has a post on the Mormon doctrine of God. The guys in white shirts coming up your walk aren’t your brothers in Christ.
Pelagius is Back
With a vengeance.
Covenants, Adam, Modernity, and Context Pt 1 (HC 15)
15. What kind of a mediator and redeemer then must we seek? One who is a true1 and righteous man, 2 and yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, One who is also true God.3 11 Cor 15:21, 22, 25, 26. . . . Continue reading →
It's An Ideological Thing
I’ve been reading Mark Bowden’s (2006) Guests of the Ayatollah. He argues that Iran has been at war with the West since 1979 and this story confirms that nothing has changed.
Not That We're Keeping Track
but we crossed 200,000 hits today. Okay, enough with the mile markers.
Update on URC FV Study Committee
From the bulletin of Trinity Reformed Church (Lethbridge) (with thanks to pastor Eric Fennema) Last week the study committee appointed by Synod 2007 to examine, by the Word of God and our Confessions, the teachings of the so-called Federal Vision and other . . . Continue reading →
Most Pastors Lack Health Coverage
CT has the story.
Wolfgang Capito Online
Capito (d. 1541) was a significant early Swiss Reformed theologian and humanist scholar. One of my favorite scholars, Erika Rummel, is going great work here.
Sinclair Ferguson: Baptism and the Assembly
Audio here. (HT: Michael)
It's Back: The Social Gospel
No Rauschenbusch isn’t resurrected literally but Austin says that he’s being resurrected theologically and Brian McLaren is the new Rauschenbusch.
Either Christ is Everything or But Half a Savior
Machen on Gal 2:21
Rutherford on the Free Offer
At James Durham Thesis
News on Heidelberg Church Plant
From Will Traub: MTW has named Sebastian Heck to be the leader of a new team to plant a congregation in Heidelberg, Germany as the first step in forming a Reformed denomination there.
A French Reformed Pastor in the High Orthodox Period
Good stuff from Wes White.
Jesus, James, and Paul
It’s not that complicated if we don’t begin with false premises.