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Cruisin Grand May 2014
Author Archives: R. Scott Clark
The Dubious Aesthetic Virtues Of Some Contemporary Praise Songs
HT: Chortles Weakly
Greg Looked Behind The Curtain: You Should Too
I’m not so sure the FV folk haven’t maintained unity between Moscow and Birmingham. The connections are still there….. So who is the Davenant Trust? Of the five board members two (Rick and Bradford (M.A., New Saint Andrews College) Littlejohn, father and . . . Continue reading →
Churchill On VE Day 1945
HT: On this, the 69th anniversary of V-E Day, listen to Winston Churchill deliver the news. http://t.co/5AVtkkWhWo — Chris Stirewalt (@cstirewalt) May 8, 2014
Providence (4): Not A Chance In The World
In part 3 we considered the “as it were” principle when thinking and talking about God and his providence. We talk about chance all the time. “Not a chance” or “He never gave me a chance” and in those cases we’re talking . . . Continue reading →
The Key To Unlocking The FV Error: The Double Mode Of Communion
I would say that the most foundational error in the book is his rejection of the “dual aspects of the covenant” (55-56), a matter which I consider essential to good Reformed theology and well balanced Calvinism. Reformed theology at its best accepts . . . Continue reading →
Murphy Brown Is Still Wrong And Her Choice Affects Freedom
Ultimately, the Cahn-Carbone argument is about separation and isolation. It serves primarily to separate people and separate families. And it’s another example of how children are the pawns and political footballs in just about every so-called “progressive” agenda. Ironically, the argument also . . . Continue reading →
The Catholicity Of The Canons
Wherefore, this Synod of Dort, in the name of the Lord, conjures as many as piously call upon the name of our Savior Jesus Christ to judge of the faith of the Reformed Churches, not from the calumnies which on every side . . . Continue reading →
Boom! Canons Of Dort Day
This year marks the 395th anniversary of the publication of the Canons of the Synod of Dort. They were published on May 9, 1619. Canons are synodical rulings on a series of doctrinal issues and the synod published these decisions in response to . . . Continue reading →
Facts: Forgery Killers
Then last week the story began to crumble faster than an ancient papyrus exposed in the windy Sudan. Mr. Askeland found, among the online links that Harvard used as part of its publicity push, images of another fragment, of the Gospel of . . . Continue reading →
Seven Essential Distinctions In The Covenant Of Grace
Wes Bredenhof, pastor of Providence Canadian Reformed Church (Hamilton, ON) has published a helpful post. Here is part of it: We distinguish between the administration of the covenant of grace in this era and administrations of the covenant of grace in previous . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: The Pilgrim’s Prayer (2)
After the fall, believers wandered. They were pilgrims, looking for a another city whose builder and maker is God (Heb 11). They were looking for a heavenly city. Under the old, Mosaic covenant, believers were given colorful pictures of heaven and even the . . . Continue reading →
Should I Be Re-Baptized?
In recent days this question has come up a few times but it occurs regularly. It occurs in the context of a new members class at church when someone entering a Reformed congregation, coming from outside the Reformed church approaches the pastor . . . Continue reading →
Progress Or Regress?
So, since our 1973 founding, the PCA has “progressed” from “committed without reservation” to our Standards, to a “good faith subscription” approach that has opened the PCA’s door to paedocommunion, intinction, female pseudo-officers, Federal Vision, theistic evolution (e.g., Biologos), et al, all . . . Continue reading →
Divorcing Doctrine From Scripture
Dear Pithius, Our dear boy, you quite misunderstand the problem. So long as Christians continue to understand the Book to contain truths, claims about the way things really are, about the enemy, about Him-who-ought-not-be-named, about His Paraclete, about humans as contracting with . . . Continue reading →
Good News! He Lived For Us
This is the glory of the Protestant doctrine of justification. The person who is in Christ is at the very same instant a sinner and just. If I could be justified only by actually becoming just and having no sin me, I . . . Continue reading →
A Rebuke To Hubris
The Modernist creed was 1. The universal fatherhood of God 2. The Universal brotherhood of man 3. Human perfectibility I remember hearing a teacher say, perhaps ironically (it was 4th grade after all), “We’re getting better every day, in every way.” Then . . . Continue reading →
Outraged America
I grew up in a mostly white neighborhoods but, for several years, I went to mixed-race schools. There was a lot of racial tension in my hometown back then. There were “race riots” in 1968 and tensions simmered for years after. Maybe . . . Continue reading →
Live Tweeting The Future Of Protestantism
You can follow the Heideltweets here. The video feed is here. The #protfuture tweets are here. All my tweets appear on the HB home page (bottom right). You can keep up with them by refreshing the page. My original post replying to . . . Continue reading →
Morabito: This Is A Test AND An Actual Emergency
Lots of folks have been scratching their heads wondering how genderless marriage — which seemed just a fantasy on the fringes just a decade or so ago — so quickly became a reality of American public policy today. There are a lot . . . Continue reading →