Office Hours could use your help. If you have benefited from Office Hours, if you enjoyed the most recent episode with Bob Godfrey, or the interview with Sinclair Ferguson, or the interviews with Darryl Hart, or Mike Horton, or Terry Johnson, or . . . Continue reading →
January 2011 Archive
Pastor Shane is Reading Always Reformed
He writes: “It may never catch on, but I like this kind of language better: ‘The Reformed tradition’ or ‘The Reformed part of Christianity’ (or something along those lines). . Read more» Order your copy of Always Reformed from the Bookstore at WSC . . . Continue reading →
"How Dare You?"
That might be the spirit of the age. Road rage. One driver pulls sharply in front of another driver and the second says “How dare you?” In some cases violence ensues. Just yesterday a troubled student burst into his high school office . . . Continue reading →
Pastor Dave Likes Courageous Calvinism
He writes: What is striking about this is his forthright approach to creeds and confessions – there will be no picking and choosing of what one likes or dislikes. There will be no shading of truth. There will be the straightforward and . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: Godfrey on the Myth of Influence
The latest episode of Office Hours is out via iTunes and on the website. In this episode, Office Hours talks with Dr W. Robert Godfrey about the “myth of influence” and how that myth shapes our attitudes and behaviors. Read this article. . . . Continue reading →
Mounce Is Not Nice
For several years I’ve been concerned about a particular confusion of Christ and culture, i.e., that confusion common among American evangelicals, that passes for piety but that has little to do with actual, biblical piety as Scripture is understood and confessed by . . . Continue reading →
Nunc Super Tunc
Originally posted 5 March 2009 The title is Latin for “Now is superior to then.”1 It’s a shorthand way of getting at an attitude that is widespread among American Christians that whatever we think and do now is necessarily superior to anything . . . Continue reading →
Midway PCA's Alternative Plan
“We renew our recommendation that Presbyteries vote against adopting the BCO 14 amendments and seek improved formulations. Moreover, it is hoped that any Presbyteries which have not yet voted on the proposals will at least engage in deliberative study of this overture . . . Continue reading →
Pastor Dave is Reading Always Reformed
He writes: For those of us in the PCA there is great merit in interacting with these essays. I liked the book so much and thought it to be so timely that I purchased several copies and gave it to the elders of . . . Continue reading →
The Reformation Comes to Italy: The Video
Part 1
On the New Covenant
Arguably two of the issues that separate confessional Reformed folk from their Baptist friends are the Sabbath and Baptism. For many Baptists (but not all—there are confessional Baptists who agree with the Reformed on the Sabbath) it is a given that the . . . Continue reading →
Christian Banking?
Planet Money is an interesting and usually fair-minded (they talk to Keynesians and to free-market capitalists) account of economic theory and the global economy. Their most recent podcast was a story about a Spanish savings bank called cajas de ahorros. It is . . . Continue reading →