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Cruisin Grand May 2014
Christian Life
Office Hours: Divine Covenants And Moral Order
In the 16th and 17th centuries, indeed, from the 2nd century until the 20th century there was little question among Christians whether God has revealed his moral law in nature and in the conscience. In the 20th century, however, that verity came to . . . Continue reading →
Sunrise Highway In April
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Of Coarse Jesting, Wisdom, And Christian Liberty
A faithful reader of the HB wrote to ask about to think about seeking God’s glory while hanging out with and having a good time with the guys. Here’s my expanded reply: How do we think about hanging out with the guys . . . Continue reading →
Northeast Escondido And Valley Center In Early April
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Office Hours: Horton On Calvin’s Doctrine Of The Christian Life
John Calvin is one of the most influential writers in the Reformed tradition, so much so that Richard Muller has argued that, in the modern period, Calvin has been over emphasized to the neglect of the rest of the Reformed tradition. Nevertheless, . . . Continue reading →
Did Luther And Calvin Favor Evangelical Monasticism?
I was clicking around the internets recently and (probably via Twitter) and found a fascinating essay by Greg Peters, Associate Professor of Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University. The burden of the essay is to introduce the reader to and to commend the . . . Continue reading →
The Sermon On The Mount In The First Use
So it is with the whole of the discourse. The new law of the Sermon on the Mount, in itself, can only produce despair. Strange indeed is the complacency with which modern men can say that the Golden Rule and the high . . . Continue reading →
Messages To Millennials (3): Work
In part 2 we looked at the way, according to a recent Pew Study, Millennials relate to the visible, institutional church. The third major topic is work. As Bradford Wilcox summarizes the results of the study he notes that 80% of those . . . Continue reading →
Messages To Millennials (1): Marriage
On March 7, 2014, the Pew Research Center published the results of a new Survey: Millennials in Adulthood. Bradford Wilcox has a summary in the NRO. According to the study, Millennials have become disconnected from some basic institutions: marriage, church, and work—though not . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast 64: Nomism And Antinomianism (7)
The nomist wants to know whether the works he did before coming to faith are of any value. He asks, “why then, sir, it would seem that all my seeking to please God by my good works, all my strict walking according . . . Continue reading →
Winter Fades At A North County Beach
What Do You Want?
The wonderful wizard of web is planning an overhaul of the HB. What features would you like to see? Yesterday someone suggested connecting the internal search function to google site search. What else would help you to use the HB? Thanks for . . . Continue reading →
Atheists, Christians, AA, And God As I Conceive Of Him
I did a brief interview with Julie Borg, for WORLD Magazine that appeared online today. Here’s a bit: The concept of making up our own ideas of God is idolatry, said R. Scott Clark, professor of church history and historical theology at . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: Mike Horton On Sanctification And The Means Of Grace (2)
If Christians have often been tempted to mysticism (the quest to meet God without instruments, media, or means) they have also been tempted to magic, tempted to turn the sacraments into things they are not. The medieval Western church taught and the . . . Continue reading →
It Never Rains In California
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Escondido Hills
Office Hours: Sanctification And The Means Of Grace
It is easy to imagine that sanctification is the result of an immediate action by God upon the soul. By “immediate” I mean that the Spirit is thought to act without using means. In the history of the church more than a . . . Continue reading →
Ramona In February
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Oregon Visits Escondido
