Don’t try to tell that to Shane Lems!
Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry
Examining the Nine Points (of Synod Schereville) Pt 1
Is now in print in The Outlook and online here. You can subscribe to the print version here.
Auburn Ave PCA to CREC?
So says Mike Gore at TCTT. UPDATE: So says Jack Sawyer, moderator of the OPC discussion list (This forum may be viewed only by members and requires a Yahoo ID to join). UPDATE #2: So says the CREC. PCA Ruling Elder Bob . . . Continue reading →
New Audio: Kim Riddlebarger on the NPP
Here
Wilkins to Face Trial Before PCA SJC
Details from Bob Mattes at GB. UPDATE: Auburn Ave and the Rev. Mr. Wilkins may have re-aligned with the CREC. Update as of 1 March, 2008. He and his congregation have fled the discipline of the PCA for the safe arms of . . . Continue reading →
We Used to Call Them Reprobates
According to Bob Mattes at GB.
They're Reading CJPM at the PB!
Daniel and the fellows are reading CJPM. You can get your copy from the WSC bookstore by clicking on the image to the left.
Kim Lectures on the NPP
Audio here
FV Spreading into Southern Europe
Just got an email from a pastor in Southern Europe. He reports that one of the families in his congregation has become taken with the FV.
Louisiana Presbytery (PCA) Cited and Indicted
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 →
Does the FV Really Accept the Existence of NECMs?
Over at Green Bagginses, Reed raises the question of the status of NECMs (non-elect covenant members) and how the FV views them. There’s much good there, particularly in the quotations from Turretin on temporary faith and the like. That distinction, between true . . . Continue reading →
What Do the Sacraments Do?
Wes White does an excellent job of explaining.
Good Works and Assurance
Bob Mattes at GB.
Two Covenants in Redemptive History: Grace and Works
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 →
Pan Confessionalism on Law and Gospel (3)
Olevianus, Beza, Perkins, Twisse, The Marrow Men: Lutherans? You decide. Caspar Olevianus (1536-87). For this reason the distinction between law and Gospel is retained. The law does not promise freely, but under the condition that you keep it completely. And if someone . . . Continue reading →
(Reformed) Christianity and (Quasi-Reformed) Revisionism
In his brilliant work, Christianity and Liberalism (1923), J. Gresham Machen called for the “liberals” (many of whom could just as aptly be called broad evangelicals) to be honest about their views and to leave the Presbyterian Church. Thirteen years later, it . . . Continue reading →