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I'm Thankful For The Writers' Strike
Since I discovered how to subscribe to podcasts tons of stuff has been piling up on my iPod. As you probably have discovered by now, time is a zero-sum-game. If I’m watching the stupid and stupefying television (Newton Minnow was never more . . . Continue reading →
Heidelberg Catechism Question 10: Why Do We Have Such a Hard Time with Hell?
10. Will God suffer such disobedience and apostasy to go unpunished? By no means,1 but He is terribly displeased with our inborn as well as our actual sins, and will punish them in just judgment in time and eternity, as He has . . . Continue reading →
Reeves Responds to Clark
Russ Reeves of Tolle Blogge (his blog is no longer available) and Providence Christian College wrote such a thoughtful response to the “Natural is Not Neutral” post that it shouldn’t be buried in the comments.
Corrections to the Battles’ Edition of the Institutes
This is a fascinating development. David F. Wright, Professor of Patristic and Reformed Christianity (emeritus) from Edinburgh University, and Dr. Jon Balserak, research fellow in theology at the University of Birmingham, are considering a revision of the Battles edition of Calvin’s Institutes. . . . Continue reading →
Saturdays Are for Seminary
With apologies to Scot McKnight (Fridays are for Friends – but what good is the web if I can’t blatantly rip off a good idea and pretend it’s mine?) I thought perhaps I could bring some order to the chaos that has . . . Continue reading →
Redeeming Culture?
Tullian raises the question of “redeeming” culture (original link no longer available). I wonder, however, why we need to speak about “redeeming” culture at all? T. M. Moore appeals to Eph 4:8, but the difficulty of this appeal is that the context . . . Continue reading →
Now It All Begins to Make Sense
Thanks to faithful reader Paul Grace who alerted me to Carl Trueman’s secret life! So many things begin to make sense now. It’s time again for the annual “Stella Awards”! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella . . . Continue reading →
Black, White, and Reformed (A Response)
The discussion continues over the first post, but the comment below from a reader named Lawrence prompts further thoughts: We are splitting hairs. My point is that continually berating our society for something we aren’t doing anymore if foolish. Every society on . . . Continue reading →
Calvin, Yale, and Hastings College
According to the Grand Rapids Press (October 31, 2007) Calvin College hired a Baptist professor of education, Dr. Denise Isom, and is now threatening to remove her tenure-track appointment. The sticking point has become Professor Isom’s refusal to attend a CRCNA congregation. . . . Continue reading →
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.
Wanted: Better Tunes for the Psalms
We were having an interesting discussion about the WHI show on “happy-clappy” worship. One of the things for which I have been “banging the drum” is the need for contemporary settings of the Psalms. I love the Book of Psalms for Singing. . . . Continue reading →
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 →
When "Happy-Clappy" Isn’t
The WHI guys have been doing a series on worship. This one is particularly good. This being the Sabbath it seems appropriate to post it.
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 Federal Vision (FV) views them. There’s much good there, particularly in the quotations from Turretin on temporary faith and the like. That distinction, . . . Continue reading →
Bog Standard Evangelicalism
My dear friend Carl Trueman has a thoughtful and provocative (what else?) essay in the latest Ref21 (website no longer available). You should read it for yourself, so I won’t try to summarize it here except to say that three of the most . . . Continue reading →
Hywel Jones on Job
Just out via Evangelical Press (hardcover): Set outside the life of Israel, the book of Job provides a way, either because they do not ask the big questions about life, or because they are swamped by the fact that there seem to . . . Continue reading →
A Plea for Prayer for Kenya
There is political and tribal violence in Kenya. The NYT has the story here. Westminster Seminary California student Peter Mulinge writes to the WSC email list: I ask you to pray for my country there is unrest everywhere, many people have been . . . Continue reading →
Bebe Rebozo’s Friend Has A Museum
The Garmin worked great. Took me straight to the Nixon Presidential Library/Museum in Yorba Linda. It’s quite different from the Reagan Museum. The presidential museums really do reflect the different personalities of the presidents they honor. The Reagan Library is big, roomy, . . . Continue reading →
The HB is One Year (and 3) Days Old
It just occurred to me that the HB is a little more than a year old. It began on Christmas Eve, 2006. Since the first post there have been 769 posts and I don’t know how many visitors and subscribers, but a . . . Continue reading →