“The church let me down.” That’s probably true. Now what? Kevin DeYoung is addressing this question.
Author Archives: R. Scott Clark
A Case for the Ordinary Means of Grace and the Marrow Controversy
Good stuff from the just past Twin Lakes Fellowship meeting. As part of his talk, Lig Duncan mentioned some resources to which this TLF blog post provides links. We need to know the Marrow Controversy and we need to understand it’s relevance . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: Meet Josh VanEe
The second part of the Office Hours double play is up now on the WSC Office Hours page (and in iTunes).
An Office Hours Double Play: Horton and Van Ee
It’s an Office Hours double play this week as we talk with Mike Horton and Josh vanEe in two episodes. In the first, released today, Office Hours talks with Dr Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster . . . Continue reading →
Religious Freedom Watch: Rancho Cucamonga, CA Demands CUP (Updated)
Update: Rancho Cucamonga has dropped the action against the Bible Study. Original Post 27 Mar 2010 First it was San Diego, then Gilbert, AZ and now Rancho Cucamonga.
Hurtado: The Uniqueness of the Resurrection
Nice essay on the early Christian doctrine of the resurrection at Slate.com (HT: Jon Moersch).
New from WSC: Westminster Weekend on 55 KARI AM-Fridays at 8:30AM
Today begins a new weekly 15 minute radio program from Westminster Seminary California, Westminster Weekend. You can hear it live on Fridays at 8:30 AM (Pacific). Click on the 55 KARI AM logo. The shows will also be online. The first show . . . Continue reading →
Lutheran or Reformed? You Make the Call (UPDATED)
The answer: This Q/A was written by the Reformed theologian Caspar Olevianus (1536-87), who cooperated in the production of the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), who taught and ministered in Heidelberg and Herborn. The quotation is question 10 from his 1567 popular catechetical work, . . . Continue reading →
Horton Comments on Warren at DGM
Nail, meet hammer.
"Letter of Concern" to Missouri Presbytery (PCA) Regarding Jeffrey Meyers
You can find the text of the letter here. More coverage here. The letter was signed by 27 PCA teaching and ruling elders, including Joey Pipa, Jeffrey Hutchinson, Nick Willborn, Bob Mattes, Wes White, and Lane Keister.
New Audio: Darryl Hart on Machen and What Prepared Him to Fight
At OLTS.
New Audio Online: Bob Godfrey on Christ-Centered Christianity
Thanks to Chris Gordon, pastor of Lynden United Reformed Church and host of Abounding Grace Radio, for hosting the conference and for posting the audio.
Keister: Doug Wilson Denies Sola Fide
A good lot of so-called “conservative” (what are they conserving?) Reformed types have told me, “Yes, Wilson has some weird views but he’s different from the other Federal Visionists.” Really? Rhetorically perhaps, but substantially? Lane Keister, who has been sitting in with . . . Continue reading →
Dispensationalism May Get You Arrested
Bad theology tends to produce bad living.
Guy Waters on the Christian's Task
“Our task as Christians is not to try through social action or labors or endeavors of one sort or the other to usher in the new heavens and the new earth ourselves. We’re not the agents of that. That’s something God’s going . . . Continue reading →
Mary Baker Eddy's Newspaper Discovers Mark Dever
The results are interesting.
Careful How You Vote in Moscow
Or you may face church discipline. You might want to keep this in mind if you’re thinking about attending or joining the Confederation of Reformed Evangelicals.
Online Now: Audio of Sinclair Ferguson's den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry
The series is titled, “Not ourselves, but Jesus Christ . . . with ourselves: The Heartbeat of Gospel Ministry.” They are online now here.
For Those Who Love the Heidelberg Catechism
Wes White has been reading and profiting from Caspar Olevianus’ Exposition of the Apostles’ Creed.
Another Federal Visionist Popes
Wes White has the story. It’s not the first time. It probably won’t be the last. According to the FV, baptism creates a temporary, conditional union with Christ, temporary, conditional justification etc. Those benefits are retained by grace and cooperation with grace. . . . Continue reading →