Chiliasm is the ancient name for what today is known as premillennialism, the belief that when Jesus Christ returns he will not execute the last judgment at once, but will first set up on earth a temporary kingdom, where resurrected saints will . . . Continue reading →
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Muether On The Failed Pragmatism Of The Plan Of Union
Congregationalists and Presbyterians were hardly strangers in colonial America. Though from different lineages -– the former from English stock and the latter of Scotch-Irish descent -– there was a growing kinship between them. The 1648 Massachusetts Cambridge Platform affirmed the “substance” of . . . Continue reading →
A Confessional Reformed Theologian On The Futility Of Earthly Golden Ages Under Christian Princes
I cannot fail to recall the optimistic mood which I and many others felt when we considered the condition of the Reformed churches in 1591. In France there ruled the valiant King Henri IV, in England the mighty Queen Elizabeth, in Scotland . . . Continue reading →
John Gloucester: Early Confessional American Presbyterian
Nevertheless, many African Americans embraced and appropriated Presbyterian teaching and applied it to their lives and circumstances. Reformed theology’s enthusiastic articulation of divine sovereignty provided hope and assurance. Human suffering existed under divine authority and was not outside God’s control. God promised . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of October 5–11, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of October 5–11, 2026. Continue reading →
Kuiper: Modernism’s Condition For Peace Is A Denial Of Supernaturalism
The difference between Christianity and liberalism may be described as the difference between supernaturalism and naturalism. Now Christian supernaturalism when applied to the subject of salvation yields the doctrine of salvation by grace. And it is the distinction, nay the glory, of . . . Continue reading →
Trueman On The Fall Of England
England exemplifies the political shape a country takes when expressive individualism grips the imagination of its ruling class. It is impossible for any culture to allow everyone to be who they want to be, from transgender activists to traditional Christians. Somebody therefore . . . Continue reading →
Hart: Wolfe Collapses The Two Kingdoms
But Wolfe ties himself in knots when he tries to find ways for the Christian Prince to order civil affairs so that his subjects will – trigger warning – gain eternal life. For instance, he writes, “Christ’s mediatorial reign does extend to . . . Continue reading →
Bredenhof: Give This Book To Your Pastor Or Elder
In my ministry, I’ve encountered several beloved brothers and sisters who’ve dealt with trauma. I think of those who experienced trauma from combat, from childhood sexual abuse, from rape, from domestic violence, and from medical procedures. All of these (and more) can . . . Continue reading →
Hart: Maybe Renn’s Project Isn’t Really About Institution Building?
What is especially odd about Renn’s reflections on Protestant churches and American society is that the institution-building conservative Protestants performed after liberalism and the Social Gospel captured the mainline denominations – creating seminaries, denominations, colleges, magazines, publishing companies – don’t register on . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 28–October 4, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of September 28–October 4, 2026. Continue reading →
Sneak Peek of Remembering the Reformed Confession from Darryl Hart
A Missing Ingredient in the Recovery of Reformed Confessionalism As much as God’s frozen chosen may overdo the awkward and embarrassing features of evangelical piety, it is still true that born-again Protestantism and Reformed confessionalism have different practices that, in turn, nurture . . . Continue reading →
Calvin: We Find Our Assurance In Christ And His Promises
Now he gave us that sure communion with himself, when he testified through the preaching of the gospel that he had been given to us by the Father to be ours with all his benefits [Rom. 8:32]. We are said to put . . . Continue reading →
Trueman On The Tyranny Of The Sexual Revolution
Critical theorist Max Horkheimer, who co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Theodor Adorno, would go on to repudiate the sexual revolution. In an interview in the late 1960s, he expressed support for the encyclical Humanae Vitae, arguing that contraception, and the sexual revolution . . . Continue reading →
Video: Selling Jesus—Why Witnessing Isn’t a Sales Pitch (Part 2)
On this episode of Abounding Grace Radio (AGR), Rev. Chris Gordon welcomes Dr. R. Scott Clark to talk about what faithful witness looks like for ordinary Christians. They begin with the story of a gang member who walked into a church elders . . . Continue reading →
Morabito On The Soulless Machinery That Isolates Us From One Another
Consider a few questions. In terms of the effect on the human psyche, how different is the playground taught of “cooties” to cancel culture? How different from Big Tech’s efforts to spear and deplatform the “unwoke”? How different from being supervised by . . . Continue reading →
Your Church Lectern Is Not A Reformation Pulpit
Initially reformers focused on the furniture, replacing the central altar with a pulpit as the locus of significance. The protestant pulpit of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—huge, intricately carved, and looming high above the main floor of the church—improved hearing and served . . . Continue reading →
Christians Have Always Been “Strangers And Aliens”
Smith, argues that within the pagan “matrix of assumptions, the Christian view of sexuality was not only radically alien, it was close to incomprehensible.” About this he is certainly right historically. But consider that the Christian view of sexuality is today, within . . . Continue reading →
Andrews: The Root Of Campus Fanaticism Is Money
Paglia was also a more acute critic than Bloom, because she realized that the so-called tenured radicals were not really radicals at all but apple polishing class president types, or else plain hucksters. All the real radicals had flamed out on drugs . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 21–27, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of September 21–27, 2026. Continue reading →