Re-Posted from Sept 9, 2009. The HB has addressed the problem of “churchless evangelicals” before. This question is a little different. How should consistories/sessions address the problem of members of a congregation who simply seem to disappear as if they’ve fallen off . . . Continue reading →
Author Archives: R. Scott Clark
The Trouble with TULIPS
When the young neo-Evangelicals, Billy Graham, Carl F. H. Henry, & co. established Christianity Today in 1956 they did so to offer an alternative to the more liberal Christian Century magazine. In its early years there was a strong confessionally Reformed presence . . . Continue reading →
On P&R Churches and "Holy Days"
Andy Webb has a very helpful post on this topic. Darryl Hart asks when Presbyterians became Adventists? With the help of Leigh Eric Schmidt makes some very interesting and important points about the way commercial interests coincided with the interests of revivalist . . . Continue reading →
Clergy Ratings Hit 32-Year Low
According to a December 11, 2009 story in USA Today a Gallup Poll shows that Americans’ views of the “honesty and ethics” of clergy have hit a 32-year low, with just half rating their moral caliber as high or very high….” We . . . Continue reading →
Baptism and the Benefits of Christ: The Double Mode of Communion
Thanks to Chris Coldwell, editor of The Confessional Presbyterian, for making the
Office Hours: Godfrey and VanDrunen on Christ, Kingdom and Culture
In today’s episode of Office Hours, W. Robert Godfrey, President and Professor of Church History at Westminster Seminary California and David VanDrunen, Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics talk about the upcoming WSC Faculty Conference, “Christ, Kingdom, and . . . Continue reading →
Darryl Hart on the Manhattan Declaration
At the Front Porch Republic. RELATED POST Here’s Mike Horton’s critique.
The Confessional Presbyterian: Vol 5 Now Available
You can order it here. Copies will be available in The Bookstore at WSC later this month, Dv. Back copies are available in the bookstore. Here are the contents:
More Bad News For The Mainline
A December 7, 2009 report from the Barna Group details the continued slide of the mainline churches (i.e. the American Baptist Churches in the USA; the Episcopal Church; the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; the Presbyterian Church (USA); the United Church of . . . Continue reading →
SoCal Reformed Fellowship Jan 29-31
The speaker is Ron Svendson, pastor of Valley PCA. Info is on the SoCal Reformed Fellowship blog.
Proposed by SJC Panel: Indict Leithart
A panel of two teaching elders (ministers) and two ruling elders (elders) has recommended to the full Standing Judicial Commission of the Presbyterian Church in America that the complaint against the Pacific NW Presbytery of the PCA, which refused to prosecute the . . . Continue reading →
Derek Thomas on John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor
Derek says at Ref21 “by far and away the best book on Calvin this year, our very own Robert Godfrey’s John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor (Crossway). If you buy nothing else this year on Calvin – get this one and you will . . . Continue reading →
Someone Should Write a Book About This Phenomenon
Lily Fowler, at Slate.com describes the QIRE very well. She sees what many Christians are unable or unwilling to see: “But Promise Keepers also offered something different from a church: an unmediated relationship with God. [emphasis added -rsc] The stadium rallies produce an . . . Continue reading →
Kuyper on the Revision of Article 36 of the Belgic
Darryl Hart has a very interesting post on Abraham Kuyper’s approach to the revision of Belgic Confession Art. 36.
He Agrees with RRC (I think)
David Wallover, pastor of Harvest Presbyterian Church in Medina, OH has written a provocative review of RRC comparing and contrasting with with Jim Belcher’s Deep Church. First, I’m grateful that he read the book and took the time to comment on it. Second, . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: Meet Dave VanDrunen
On Today’s episode of Office Hours, the podcast of Westminster Seminary California, David VanDrunen, Robert B. Strimple Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics, talks about upbringing, how he became a minister, his training at WSC, and his research into the biblical, . . . Continue reading →
Matthew 2 As the Remake of a Great Story
Martin Downes has a meditation on Matthew 2 and Jesus as the Israel of God.
The Comfort of Prayer
Jon Moersch has an excellent post on the necessity and benefits of prayer.
Differences Between Lutheran and Reformed Orthodoxy
Prior to the 19th century, orthodox, confessional Lutheran and Reformed theologians used to read each other’s work and interact more than they do now. I’m not entirely sure when we stopped talking to each other but it seems clear to me that . . . Continue reading →
The HB Passes 1 Million Hits
As they say on the commercial, “Thanks for your support.”