A while back I suggested that perhaps trained combat veterans should be allowed to carry concealed firearms on college/university campuses to deter school shootings and to provide protection in case one occurs. The state of Oklahoma is apparently thinking about doing just . . . Continue reading →
2008 Archive
Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?
Bob Godfrey answers.
Believing in Creation But Denying That We Are Creatures?
Anita writes to ask about a couple of things I said in class last night. In brief she asks why I suggest that some who believe quite strongly in creation don’t really seem to believe in creation at all and second, why . . . Continue reading →
Sane Talk About Church "Vision" Statements
From Rick Phillips at Ref21
A Catechism on Legalism
At AH
Louisiana Presbytery Resolution…
Sort of. Bob Mattes has details. There are, one thinks, more shoes to drop. SJC procedural trials and GA votes are fine but, as I’ve been saying since last summer, PCA ministers (TEs) and ruling elders (and laity) should not content themselves . . . Continue reading →
ECT: A Post Mortem
Since the 1994 publication of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT), the evangelical body has been convulsed periodically over the doctrine of justification. The patient, to strain a metaphor, sustained a second attack in 1998 with publication of ECT II or The Gift . . . Continue reading →
Colson Continues to Defend ECT
Chuck Colson is on a blog tour. Tim Challies put to him a brilliant question, indeed, as far as I’m concerned, the ONLY question and he did it very well. Protestants have traditionally held that justification by grace alone through faith alone . . . Continue reading →
Luther Wasn't Just Another Moral Reformer (Updated)
But that’s what Cardinal Walter Kaspar wants to make him.
Luther: Not Just Another Moral Reformer
But that’s what Cardinal Walter Kasper wants to make him.* There were a lot of moral Reformers before, during, and after the Reformation. Luther wasn’t one of them. The moral Reformers wanted to clean up the behavior of the Roman communion and . . . Continue reading →
Luther: Not Just Another Moral Reformer
But that’s what Cardinal Walter Kasper wants to make him.* There were a lot of “moral Reformers” before, during, and after the Reformation. Luther wasn’t one of them. The moral Reformers wanted to clean up the behavior of the Roman communion and . . . Continue reading →
Confession and Repristination
So this interesting and important discussion continues. In his latest post, Lee accuses me of wanting “repristinate” 17th-century orthodoxy. To this all I can say is that evidently he hasn’t read my published work. I don’t think anyone would accuse me of . . . Continue reading →
Ligonier Has A Blog
Thanks to Keith Mathison for writing to let readers of the HB know that Ligonier has begun a blog today. This is a welcome addition to my daily reading.
Even More on Bible and Confession (Updated)
Lee critiques the way I relate the Bible and the confession in this earlier post. As I understand his post he has one major complaint with two aspects, 1) that I misrepresent the oath taken by WTS profs; 2) that ignore the . . . Continue reading →
Attention CA Home Schoolers: Things Just Became More Complicated
Details here. The HSLDA’s initial response is here.
Calvin's 1543 Preface to the Psalter
Published in 1565 (posthumously) and online here (HT: Richard on the PB)
Legalism Kills
here
What Makes a Church Missional?
It depends upon who is doing the defining. Todd Billings has a helpful essay on this very question that echoes some of the same themes I tried to raise during our Missional and Reformed conference.
Guy Waters to Lecture at WSC 13 March
Dr. Guy Prentiss Waters, associate professor of new testament at Reformed Theological Seminary and author of The Federal Vision & Covenant Theology and Justification & the New Perspectives on Paul, has been invited by the WSC faculty to deliver two special lectures . . . Continue reading →
Why Is Deepak Chopra on Public TV?
I just heard an interview by Dennis Miller of DC. Miller couldn’t figure out what DC was saying. So a caller explained: DC is proselytizing the west for Bhuddist* mysticism. Exactly. Fine, but why on earth is he on public TV (PBS)? . . . Continue reading →