Details from Bob Mattes. Here’s the text of the indictment. Here’s Bob’s bottom line at GB: As you can read, LAP has two options open to it: 1. LAP can repent of its errors and demonstrate this by conducting a fair and . . . Continue reading →
The WHI guys have been doing a series on worship. This one is particularly good. This being the Sabbath it seems appropriate to post it.
Over at Green Bagginses, Reed raises the question of the status of NECMs (non-elect covenant members) and how the Federal Vision (FV) views them. There’s much good there, particularly in the quotations from Turretin on temporary faith and the like. That distinction, . . . Continue reading →
My dear friend Carl Trueman has a thoughtful and provocative (what else?) essay in the latest Ref21 (website no longer available). You should read it for yourself, so I won’t try to summarize it here except to say that three of the most . . . Continue reading →
Just out via Evangelical Press (hardcover): Set outside the life of Israel, the book of Job provides a way, either because they do not ask the big questions about life, or because they are swamped by the fact that there seem to . . . Continue reading →
There is political and tribal violence in Kenya. The NYT has the story here. Westminster Seminary California student Peter Mulinge writes to the WSC email list: I ask you to pray for my country there is unrest everywhere, many people have been . . . Continue reading →
The Garmin worked great. Took me straight to the Nixon Presidential Library/Museum in Yorba Linda. It’s quite different from the Reagan Museum. The presidential museums really do reflect the different personalities of the presidents they honor. The Reagan Library is big, roomy, . . . Continue reading →
It just occurred to me that the HB is a little more than a year old. It began on Christmas Eve, 2006. Since the first post there have been 769 posts and I don’t know how many visitors and subscribers, but a . . . Continue reading →
2 Cor 5:19 might not be the obvious place to go for a Christmas Day meditation but it’s where my thoughts are this morning.
This axiom, of course, explains so much about Bob Godfrey, but I digress before I begin. Don’t worry, somewhere, in a coffee shop in Escondido, Bob is insulting me to some bewildered stranger. Merry Christmas Bob! Kevin Efflandt has an excellent reminder . . . Continue reading →
Lately it’s been like watching a really good hitter during batting practice. The same pitch comes again and again and each time there is a satisfying “crack” as bat meets ball and said ball leaves the park.
Andy Webb has a helpful reminder to all of us involved in planting confessional Reformed congregations. There are obvious things we can do that have nothing to do with “programs” or manipulation. The chief of these things to go out of our . . . Continue reading →
This is standard Reformed theology. The 17th-century Reformed orthodox spoke regularly about a sort of covenant of works with national Israel. It wasn’t a well-formed or highly defined doctrine but they appealed to the promulgation of the law at Sinai as proof . . . Continue reading →
I waited to say anything about this because I wanted to look into it a bit first. Wes White has a fascinating and important post on the interpretation of 1 Tim 2:15. Of course this is a difficult passage. The ESV says . . . Continue reading →
Here’s a site in which WSC alumnus David Zadok is involved. Here’s the English language site. It’s an important new resource to fulfill the vital calling to bring the gospel to Israelis and Hebrew-speaking Jews everywhere.
Gordon Cheng raises this question (HT: Colin Adams) as part of a brief post on a passage from Richard Baxter’s Reformed Pastor. Cheng says, I’ve never really agreed with the evangelical emphasis on preaching, and never quite understood how evangelicals make so . . . Continue reading →
I appreciate the feedback to the first post. I started this post as a reply to some of the comments but it became too long for a comment, so I made it a new post.
I’m developing a(n) hypothesis about laptop computers in the (seminary) classroom. My theory, based on my observations of college and seminary students since 1995, is that student reliance upon notebook/laptop computers for taking notes is not helping them to learn.
WSC grad and PhD student Andrew Compton points out something I have thought for many years, that Geerhardus Vos fundamentally undermined the entire higher critical (liberal) project. Since that time it is often the case when I read some (higher) critical commentary . . . Continue reading →
The shootings in Omaha and in Colorado raise the specter of a (Thomas) Hobbesian “state of nature” wherein life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” and a war of “all against all.” With these two (or three) events clustered together it . . . Continue reading →
