Soul Food And Body Food: The Significance Of The Lord’s Supper For The Bodies Of Partakers (Part 1)

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Reformed theologians seem to have no doubt that the Lord’s Supper is nourishing to the souls of those who partake. The confessions teach plainly that Christ’s body and blood provide a kind of “soul food” for believers, building them up in their . . . Continue reading →

Contra Webbon et al.: Denying That Jesus Is A Jew Denies His True Humanity (Part 2)

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Before the Apostles’ Creed was fully formed, the ancient postapostolic church confessed the “rule of faith” (regula fidei). One of the first places we see the rule is in Irenaeus’s Against Heresies, which dates to about AD 180. Book 1 included this . . . Continue reading →

When The Marxists Come For The Birders

Why, birders might ask, this curmudgeonly reception to a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity in intersectional spaces in the birding community? The reason is that this relabeling movement betrays a Jacobin zealotry for politicizing something inherently unpolitical, in the process demanding . . . Continue reading →

The Independent Pulpit And The Bound Conscience: Ecclesiology And The Necessity Of Appeal

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In the late sixteenth century, as the Reformed churches sought to consolidate their confession amid the tumult of the Counter-Reformation, a central tension emerged that continues to occupy the mind of the church today: the relationship between the binding of the conscience and the liberty of the Christian. It is a tension famously navigated by the Westminster divines, who confessed that “God alone is Lord of the conscience” in Westminster Confession of Faith 20.2, yet simultaneously affirmed the church’s authority to settle controversies of faith and strictly prohibit what contradicts the Word of God. Continue reading →