The medievals had a slogan, “The law of praying is the law of believing.” It means, “If we can change liturgy, we can change what folk believe.” This axiom means that whoever controls the liturgy controls the future of the church, humanly . . . Continue reading →
Thanks to a link by Justin Taylor, I read an article by Nancy Morganthaler this morning that is disturbing on so many levels, I hardly know where to begin. I begin with confession: I tried and failed miserably “to do the church . . . Continue reading →
Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) Bishop of Ypres – founder of the Jansenist Movement Continue reading →
From the Gospel-Driven Life Conference. This was the adult Sunday School course in the AM.
So says Sean Lucas
In response to the post on Bob Godfrey’s Unexpected Journey, Arthur writes to ask, “So does someone who does not hold to every point of doctrine in the Reformed confessions be considered “Reformed”. More to the point, can a credobaptist not be . . . Continue reading →
James K. A. Smith has an interesting post at CT: Teaching a Calvinist to Dance. In this post he says he longs for a “a kind of ‘Pentecostalized’ Reformed spirituality.”
Just saw the draft cover art for the forthcoming book, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice [Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2008] to be published in Oct/Nov of this year. I’ll post the cover art when it’s finalized and provide . . . Continue reading →
The question comes concerning the relations between Theonomy and the Federal Vision. There is reason to think that there is some connection between the two movements. several well-known theonomists are also proponents of the FV. One of the FV leaders recently described . . . Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
I’m in the midst of an interesting discussion of baptism with a friend, who has Baptist convictions but who understands Reformed theology better than many Reformed folks. He is quite sympathetic to historic and confessional Reformed theology. For example, he affirms that . . . Continue reading →
Re-post from Jan 07 from the old HB:—Nancy and “William Twisse” (the first prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly lives!) have both written to the HB to ask why it focuses so much on the Reformed confessions. Nancy writes: I am new to . . . Continue reading →
Thanks to the CTC guys for inviting me to play with them on the most recent CTC podcast to discuss Recovering the Reformed Confession. We had a wide-ranging discussion (because it’s a wide-ranging book) and it was good clean fun. This is . . . Continue reading →
Lee Irons raises the question of the relations between Reformed Christians and American evangelicals. Much of this discussion comes down to definitions and I don’t recall that Lee offered a definition. In the immortal words of President Nixon, ” let me say . . . Continue reading →
Josh writes to ask how confessionally Reformed Christians should relate to contemporary (as distinct from it’s use as a synonym of “historic, confessional Protestant”) evangelicals?
It’s available now from The Bookstore at WSC. Here’s a sample chapter. Early comment on Recovering the Reformed Confession: At a time when “all that is solid melts in the air” and distinct colors fade to gray, R. Scott Clark reminds us . . . Continue reading →
There have been a few requests to see the table of contents. Here it is:
Howard Sloan at the Heidelberg Reformation Association reviews the book.
For $19.63 and shipping. More info about the book.
