As I read, the scales fell from my eyes. I couldn’t believe it. We are justified by “receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness through faith”! It was almost too good to be true. I felt like the heavens had opened . . . Continue reading →
2009 Archive
Peter, Do You Love Me?
Brilliant stuff from Nick at Restless and Reforming: Jesus: Simon, do you love me? Peter: Yes Lord, you know that I love you. Jesus: Fight injustice, homophobia, racism, you name it. Simon Peter, do you love me?
Providence Christian College Names New President
Congratulations to Dr J. Derek Halvorson and welcome to Southern California!(HT: Dominic Aquila)
"Preaching Christ" Audio: Dale van Dyke
This month’s WSC alumni sermon is from the Rev Mr Dale Van Dyke (WSC ’91), pastor of Harvest OPC in Grandville, MI. (Harvest OPC is also home to WSC alumnus Francis VanDelden). The sermon is “Church Essentials: Truth and Love” (1 Tim . . . Continue reading →
Is Humanism Evil?
David asks, The term “humanism” seem to incite disgust in most conservative Christians today but I have heard Calvin and other reformers referenced as “humanists.” What is the difference between the word’s use in that context and the present one?
Reason From Scripture
Four WSC students have a new blog devoted to “Reformed theology and analytic philosophy for the contemporary church.”
What Can We Know And How?
During the Watergate hearings, Senator Howard Baker asked, “What did the President know, and when did he know it?” However important that question was in the politics of 1973, it remains an important question in theology today. A friend writes to ask . . . Continue reading →
En Camino a Ginebra (On the Way to Geneva)
A new Spanish-language Reformed resource. More Recursos Reformados here.
Powlison Critiques Kubler-Ross
At the CCEF site (HT: Camden Bucey)
Van Til: Students and Controversy
New at the OPC website. (HT: Camden Bucey). As a historian I take some comfort in knowing that things don’t really change that much. If you haven’t read John Muether’s wonderful biography of CVT you should.
Alan Jacobs Remembering W. H. Auden
In Books and Culture.
Fed By Christ or the Person Next to Me?
One of the recurring questions I get is about the meaning of “body” in 1 Corinthians 11:29. The question is whether “discerning the body” in Paul’s narrative refers to “being cognizant of the congregation” or to Christ’s physical, actual body and blood, . . . Continue reading →
The Marrow of Modern Divinity on Law and Gospel
At James Durham Thesis
Vos on Justification and Union with Christ
Geerhardus Vos (1862-1949) was a Dutch Reformed theologian who taught at theological college of the Christian Reformed Church (later Calvin Seminary) and most famously at Princeton Theological Seminary. Though typically neglected by mainline (i.e., liberal and Barthian) writers because of his commitment . . . Continue reading →
Are We All Really Abraham’s Children?
Something I heard recently led to me think about the claim that is frequently made about the three great Western religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We are all frequently said to be “people of the book” and just as frequently said to . . . Continue reading →
Has the Roman Doctrine of Justification Changed?
It’s often said that Rome “doesn’t do that anymore.” I’ve heard that said about indulgences. “We don’t do that any more, not since Vatican II.” Really? Holy Mother church offered plenary indulgences at late as 2000 when there she offered a plenary . . . Continue reading →
Trent, Sungenis, Shepherd, and the FV
Originally posted 10 Nov 2007 On the White Horse Inn for 3 November (2007) Mike Horton interviewed Roman Catholic apologist Robert Sungenis and historian Mark Noll (Is the Reformation Over?). Just a few comments about the first half of the show.
Is the Reformation Over?
The second part of the White Horse Inn broadcast for 3 November 2007 features an interview with Mark Noll. I don’t know Mark well. We had lunch once when I taught at Wheaton. He was kind to spend some time with a . . . Continue reading →
Can I Have Assurance?
Joel asks, “Is it possible for a person to want/desire to know Christ as his/her Savior and not be among the elect?” 21. What is true faith? True faith is not only a certain knowledge whereby I hold for truth all that . . . Continue reading →
Godfrey and VanDrunen Reply to Garcia
This post first appeared on the old HB (now defunct) in December, 2007. It re-appears just because the old HB is being phased out entirely. —