The way people answer this question says volumes about what they think Christianity is. Continue reading
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Cultural Transformation Is Not The Article Of The Standing Or Falling Of The Church (But Justification Is)
Within the last two weeks or so it has been asserted by some, in a letter to a congregation, that the doctrine of cultural transformation is a matter of Reformed orthodoxy and that anyone who dissents from what this letter describes as the “Kuyperian” tradition, which is a little over a century old, is “outside” of Reformed orthodoxy. Continue reading
It Is Not As Easy As It Looks
Everyone else’s job, the job that you and I are not doing, always seems easy. Continue reading
Another Way The Reformed Confessions Can Help Us If We Let Them
I am in the studio today to work on an Office Hours podcast for May so there is just time for a quick thought about another way the Reformed confessions can help the churches be more faithful. Continue reading
The Spiritual Source Of Apostasy And Its Cure
Apostates will often give an ostensible intellectual reason for their apostasy but, in my experience, the root cause is rarely intellectual. It is typically spiritual. Continue reading
Apostasy Characterizes The Last Days
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. Continue reading
Christianity Is Not A Construct
In order for something to be deconstructed, it must first be a construct, i.e., an artifice, a mere human convention, something that could be other than it is, something that might not be. There are such things in the world (e.g., stop signs) but Christianity is not among them. Continue reading
Understanding Our Brave New World
The “narrative” (as people say) and the algorithm are real. Continue reading
A Phrase To Be Retired: Best Practice
Every human endeavor has its own vocabulary. Auto mechanics shorthand expressions and jargon—though beware if he or she tells you that you need a new Johnson Rod as you will pay good money for no part and no service—like every other endeavor under the sun. Continue reading
Why Are Confessionalists Just A Niche?
That was one of the questions I asked in Recovering the Reformed Confession. Continue reading
Grace Neither Obliterates Nor Transforms Nature
This morning we were working through the first article of the first question of Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. Continue reading
Swim Upstream Or Else
If you are not paddling upstream Continue reading
Shocker: Milwaukee Judge Of Children’s Court, Who Organized “Drag Queen Story Hour,” Arrested For Child Porn
Again: They Are Coming For Your Children
The Milwaukee paper said nothing about his leadership of the DQSH. Continue reading
Everything An American Constitutionalist Needs To Know About The “Equality Act” In One Sentence
“As written, the act would Continue reading
Do You Believe In A Twofold Kingdom Now?
Joe Biden wants preachers Continue reading
She Knows It Is A Baby
Today, as I worked in the yard, Continue reading
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Everything Is A Construct
The deconstructionists have a point: everything created is a construct. Continue reading
Upside Down Hermeneutics
To say that 1 Timothy 2:12 is “difficult” Continue reading
God Is A Problem For Deconstructionists
Deconstructionism is at war with nature and God. Christians who think that they can make a pet of that tiger will be eaten by it.