At the RB
Recovering the Reformed Confession
Regaining Our Confidence to Be Churches and Christians
and not service providers. Rick Phillips from the new ACE video that came to me via Facebook. While you’re at Facebook consider connecting with the HB via FB.
How Big is the SBC Really? (and Why It Matters)
CT has a story about the struggle within the Southern Baptist Convention to begin reporting real membership numbers. The reported number has long been 16.5 million. The real number of folks who actually show up is about 6.5 million.
Covenants, Adam, Modernity, and Context Pt 1 (HC 15)
15. What kind of a mediator and redeemer then must we seek? One who is a true1 and righteous man, 2 and yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, One who is also true God.3 11 Cor 15:21, 22, 25, 26. . . . Continue reading →
Wolfgang Capito Online
Capito (d. 1541) was a significant early Swiss Reformed theologian and humanist scholar. One of my favorite scholars, Erika Rummel, is going great work here.
Sinclair Ferguson: Baptism and the Assembly
Audio here. (HT: Michael)
Jesus, James, and Paul
It’s not that complicated if we don’t begin with false premises.
Turretin Summarizes the Reformed Faith
Thanks to David for posting Turretin’s brilliant summary
Coming to a Bookstore (or Website) Near You
It should be available in November, but the cover art arrived today so I thought I would share it with you. It will be available at the WSC Bookstore and it should be available for pre-order at Amazon next week. You can . . . Continue reading →
Helm: Calvin v the Calvinists?
Paul Helm was one of the first to challenge the Calvin v Calvinists thesis so his recent post on Calvin and covenant theology is a little surprising.
Calvin on Covenant and Election
Daniel Kok posts an important section from the Institutes. For more on this see the chapter on predestination in A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes.
Luther's Theology of the Cross
You need to know this.
Two Adams, Two Covenants
Excerpts from MGK
The "Evangelical" QIRE
QIRC = Quest for Illegitimate Religious Experience. Ben Myers hits the nail squarely. “Where every church service becomes the opportunity for a life-changing experience of the divine presence; where every song and sermon and prayer is designed to produce immediate emotional impact; where . . . Continue reading →
Cocceius And Abrogations
Mark Jones summarizes Van Asselt’s survey of Cocceius.
The Lion of Princeton
Two of my favorite B. B.s are B. B. King and B. B. Warfield. Kim begins a series on the latter. He did his PhD diss. on BBW a few years ago under Richard Muller. That work should be published.
More On the Proposed Revision to the PCUSA Translation of the Heidelberg Catechism
Thanks to Justin Taylor for pointing me to Robert Gagnon’s brief essay here. On one level the argument isn’t really about fidelity to the original German and Latin texts but about the meaning of the proof texts cited in HC Q. 87, . . . Continue reading →
New Issue of Semper Reformanda Coming Out
Next week. Edited by Charles Brown and Bill Chellis (in alphabetical order) SR is a helpfully provocative journal from folks generally, but not exclusively, in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America.
We're All Puritans
I’m more and more convinced that we should stop talking about “Puritans” as if they were some distinct species of Reformed theology. They were English and Scots Reformed theologians and pastors. Shane Lems has more good stuff that illustrates that confessional Reformed . . . Continue reading →
Sweetness from the "Sweet Dropper"
Andrew Compton has some choice quotes