Video: Trueman On Why Protestants Need Classical Christian Theology

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on January 20, 2024 | 4 Comments

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Bavinck: The Names And Revelation Of God Are An Accommodation To Our Weakness

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on January 19, 2024

God’s revealed names do not reveal his being as such but his accommodation to human language. Scripture is accommodated language; it is anthropomorphic through and through. God himself is described in human terms via human faculties, body parts, emotions, sensations, and actions… . . . Continue reading →

Godfrey On What Is True Worship?

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on January 19, 2024

AGR’s Chris Gordon talks to Bob Godfrey about true worship is. Continue reading →

Chris Gordon, Theocast, And W. Robert Godfrey January 18, 2024: Suffering And The Hope Of Christ’s Return

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on January 15, 2024

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Getting To Know Godfrey

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on January 13, 2024 | 2 Comments

AGR’s Chris Gordon talks to Bob Godfrey about how he became a Christian and Reformed at the same time. Continue reading →

Muller: Scholasticism Is A Method Not A Doctrine

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on January 13, 2024

In my own usage, throughout the study, I have attempted to work with terms that have substantive use in the historical documents and I have tried to confine my meanings to the meanings of the era. Thus, ‘scholastic’ indicates an academic style . . . Continue reading →

Video: The Abraham Paradigm

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on January 12, 2024 | 4 Comments

Friday and Saturday of this past week I had the privilege of speaking to congregation of Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) and to their guests in Ft Worth, TX on “The Abraham Paradigm.” They were very gracious and patient with me. It is . . . Continue reading →

Driscoll: Same Song, Second Stanza

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on January 12, 2024 | 3 Comments

But despite Driscoll’s early assurances to change, many of the same leadership traits that led to the problems at Mars Hill have carried on at the new church, according to former Trinity staff members and church attendees. . . . For several . . . Continue reading →

Machen’s Reply to Lordship Salvation

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on January 11, 2024 | 1 Comment

Very different is the conception of faith which prevails in the liberal Church. According to modern liberalism, faith is essentially the same as “making Christ Master” in one’s life; at least it is by making Christ Master in the life that the . . . Continue reading →

The Most Powerful Book On Sexual Abuse

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on January 9, 2024

Rachael DenHollander’s What is a Girl Worth? is the most powerful book on sexual abuse I’ve ever read. Her “story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics” is well-known. What I didn’t know is that . . . Continue reading →

The Last Man (As It Were) Standing?

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on January 8, 2024 | 13 Comments

It’s 2024 and NAPARC denominations stand almost alone on male-only pastors/preachers and lay leaders (elders). The SBC is far from solid on this issue (https://sbcamendment.org/) and most evangelicals are giving way by degrees. Decisive action from the SBC would help, but many . . . Continue reading →

Better Late Than Never . . . Presbycast’s Survival Guide For 2024

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on January 5, 2024

Dr Clark joins hosts Brad (Chortles Weakly) Isbell, Wresbyterian, and Presbycast guests pastor Job Dalomba and Sean Moore to have some fun and to talk about how to prepare for the craziness that 2024 promises to bring. Subscribe to the Presbycast in . . . Continue reading →

Muller: The Reformation Was Not An Attack On All Medieval Theology

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on January 5, 2024

When this orthodox or scholastic Protestantism is examined in some depth and viewed as a form of Protestant theology in its own right rather than as merely a duplication or reflection of theology of the Reformation, it is clearly a theology both . . . Continue reading →

Berkhof: Systematic Theology Is Not A Corruption Of The Truth

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on January 4, 2024

Man is endowed with reason, and the human reason cannot rest satisfied with a mere collection of separate truths, but wants to see them in their mutual relationship, in order that it may have a clearer understanding of them… There seems to . . . Continue reading →

Bavinck: We Learn Spiritual Realities Through The Material World

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on January 3, 2024

Fully adequate [exhaustive] knowledge is something of which we possess very little. Everywhere and in every area of life we finally run into mystery. The inner being of things, the thing as such, escapes our perception. We observe phenomena and from them . . . Continue reading →

Vos On Divine Simplicity

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on January 2, 2024

What is God’s simplicity? That attribute of God whereby He is free of all composition and distinction. God is free: a) Of logical composition; in Him there is no distinction between genus and species. b) Of natural composition; in Him there is . . . Continue reading →

Allen: Systematic Theology Helps Us To Keep Our Eyes On God

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on January 1, 2024 | 1 Comment

Scholastic and systematic theology has been much maligned in recent decades, often for putting God in a box and distorting the dramatic character of more occasional or narratival modes of thought. Yet the best historical studies of scholastic theology in its medieval . . . Continue reading →

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