Las iglesias de la Reforma tienen algunos lemas maravillosos llenos de verdades importantes. Sin embargo, a veces, estos lemas pueden ser tergiversados, malinterpretados y malentendidos. Con la posible excepción de sola Scriptura (solo la Escritura), ninguno de estos lemas ha sido distorsionado con más . . . Continue reading →
Semper Reformanda
Heidelcast 95: Reformation Happens
As you read this the churches, the theology, piety, and practice represented by confessionally Reformed and Presbyterian Churches is almost statistically invisible. Of the 60 million evangelicals in North America only a tiny fraction actually identify with the confessional Reformed and Presbyterian churches . . . Continue reading →
A Plan For Reforming Worship
Let’s say that a pastor decided that he wanted to reform the worship services of his congregation toward the earlier Reformed pattern of singing God’s Word without musical instruments. How would he go about it? Though we’re working with a concrete example, . . . Continue reading →
Of False Dichotomies, Science, and Progress in Theology
Edwin Walhout, a retired CRC minister, has published a provocative essay in The Banner, the denominational magazine of the Christian Reformed Church. In this essay he imagines how our orthodoxy will be viewed 1000 years from now. In order to set up the . . . Continue reading →
What Does Semper Reformanda Actually Mean?
Mike Horton gives a terrific explanation at the Ligonier blog. Here’s a bit: “Some people today leave out the “Reformed” part or at least interpret it as “reformed” (little “r”): the church is “always being reformed according to the Word of God.” . . . Continue reading →
For What It's Worth: This Paedo is Not Offended
My friend Mark Dever says that baptizing infants is sin. Mike Bird and others are offended and Mark has replied. I’ve received a few emails about this. Frankly, I don’t understand why folk are in high dudgeon.
Selling Indulgences?
It is believed by some that the Roman communion has abandoned the doctrine and practice of indulgences. The HB has noted, however, that the practice of indulgences continues. In one of these posts it was suggested that Rome has never authorized the . . . Continue reading →
Was the Reformation Necessary and Necessarily Grumpy?
Jason asks another provocative question at DRD. Clark responds: