He likes it. He gets it. ps. I can’t figure out how to comment there so I’ll do it here. He complains a bit that I didn’t focus much on the emergent movement/Mars Hill Church (I know there’s a distinction). I did . . . Continue reading →
2009 Archive
New Wave of Violence Against Christians in Nigeria
Pray for civil peace in Nigeria (1 Tim 2:2-3). News reports are coming out that there is a new wave of violence in Central Nigeria targeted at Christians. According to the Wikipedia page, the NKST (Church of Christ in the Sudan Among . . . Continue reading →
Calvin Sounding Like Amsdorff?
Creed or Chaos has an interesting quotation from the ’36 Institutes.
Sproul on Getting Your Teen-Ager to Church
At the Ligonier blog (HT: Danny Hyde).
Is the Reformed Faith Biblicistic?
Pete Enns thinks so. Or we could define the Reformed faith as that which has been confessed in public, ecclesiastically sanctioned documents which summarize the essentials of the faith. Hmm, someone should write a book making that case!
More (YRR) Calvinism in TIME
Apparently the YRR version of “Calvinism” is #3 with a bullet. Compare this story with the story from TIME in 1947 (HT: Justin Taylor).
Scholars' Book Talk
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A Remarkable Story
Michael is a visitor to our congregation. He has a gift and zeal for boldness in witness. You may remember that, a while back, he was robbed. Well, he had another encounter with one of his robbers.
The Survival of Evangelicalism
Mark Galli at CT has responded to Michael Spencer’s posts on the coming collapse of “evangelicalism.” There are two very interesting things about this response.
Pastor Dechert is Reading RRC
At Guard Yourselves from Idols.
If Ursinus Read USA Today
At DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed.
Wes Bredenhof's Review of RRC Online
At his blog.
Uproar: Prostitute Buried Near Calvin
Critics of a feminist-advocate-prostitute who was recently buried in the same cemetery in which Calvin is believed to have been buried are in an uproar because she’s she has been disinterred and reburied.
Will the Evangelical Alliance with the Political Right Doom It?
One writer thinks so.
Machen's Memo to Christians in the Mainline
“Get out.” If things were bad enough to warrant separation from the mainline in 1935 how much more do circumstances warrant separation? Has the PCUSA become more or less faithful to the Word and to the Westminster Standards since 1935? To ask . . . Continue reading →
Odds and Ends: CRT on Google and More
Thanks to Wes White for keeping us abreast of the Classic Reformed Theology available via Google Books. If the name Bernard DeMoor or the Leiden Synopsismeans anything to you then you’ll understand. Wes Bredenhof: Ways to Help Your Children Leave the Church. . . . Continue reading →
"Thus Think and Smoke Tobacco"
This is the refrain from a poem by Ralph Erskine. He anticipated the NTJ by two hundred fifty years. Erskine (d. 1752) was one of those who upheld the gospel against the moralists of his day and he was one of the . . . Continue reading →
Guy Waters Analyzes NTW's Reply to Piper
The American edition of the book is not out yet, but Guy Waters (and the fellows at Christ the Center) have the British edition and they have analyzed it carefully. As always Guy does an admirable job of stating the question, of . . . Continue reading →
The Wonder of Justification By Faith
Good, clear stuff from Wes White.
Ira Glass (This American Life) On Storytelling
Not that preachers are called to spin homely yarns but preaching is a kind of story telling. We have a narrative (the history of redemption) in which people must locate themselves and with which they need to learn to identify. Ira Glass . . . Continue reading →