The folks at Christ Reformed Church Anaheim have kindly invited me to their Authors’ Forum for 14 November, 2008. If you’re in the Orange County/LA metro area come on out. Watch for details here. They plan to have copies of the book . . . Continue reading →
Recovering the Reformed Confession
Did God Leave Me When I Enrolled in Seminary?
Ryan at Sola Gratia raises questions that many first-semester seminary students ask. In essence the question/problem is this: Before I came to seminary I had an active devotional life and a vital, immediate, experience of God and now things have changed. I . . . Continue reading →
Justification And Union With Christ
The mystical union in the sense in which we are now speaking of it is not the judicial ground, on the basis of which we become partakers of the riches that are in Christ. It is sometimes said that the merits of . . . Continue reading →
It's About to Become A Lot Easier
to Recover the Reformed Confession. Reformation Heritage Books (the publisher of the Classic Reformed Theology series) is publishing, at the end of October, the first volume in a multi-volume collection of the Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries.
It's Out: Recovering the Reformed Confession
Click on the image to order. You can see the front matter (table of contents etc) and read a sample chapter online for free. It’s $19.63 for 350 pages. There is more info here. Thanks to Kim, Martin, Lane, Dennis, Timothy, Danny, Ben, . . . Continue reading →
"Were You In Our Session Meeting?"
One reader writes to say, “It resonated with me as nothing I’ve read for years. Water on parched ground.” Another reader says, “I purchased a copy of Recovering the Reformed Confession today (it came over night) and I read the first chapter.” He continues . . . Continue reading →
Recovering: The RHB Deal of the Month!
It’s the Reformation Heritage Books Deal of the Month for October for only $15.00. Click on the image to order. J. Lim has quotations at Reformed Blogging.
More Bavinck
And the hits just keep coming. This month’s New Horizons is dedicated to Herman Bavinck. The translation of the final volume is a great blessing and benefit to the “sideline” confessional Reformed and Presbyterian churches. It’s a great academic benefit to those . . . Continue reading →
Pastor Garber Wants His Congregation to Be Confessional
And he’s reading Recovering the Reformed Confession as part of the program. Click on the book for more info. So does Pastor Efflandt! Note: The Bookstore at WSC is temporarily out-of-stock so I’m directing orders to RHB (where it is the featured book this . . . Continue reading →
Re-Thinking the Old Paradigm From Within
One of the reasons I wrote Recovering the Reformed Confession was to help professedly Reformed Christians re-connect to their heritage. When, in the early 1980s, I began researching the Reformed tradition I was surprised to learn not only how the Reformed theology, piety, . . . Continue reading →
Jesus Didn't Die for Campus Ministry
Provocative language that can’t be blamed on cold-hearted Reformed confessionalists since Russell Moore is a Baptist with impeccable evangelical credentials. He says in part, The reason many college students identify primarily with a campus ministry rather than with a church is not . . . Continue reading →
Review: Recovering the Reformed Confession
Shane has published a substantial review at Amazon.
"Recovering" at Ref21
Justin has a note on Recovering the Reformed Confession.
What Will You Take for Your Warfield?
When we were kids we used to trade sporting cards. I had a first year Lew Alcindor. Who knew they would be worth anything? Durell trades books. He traded “a Warfield” for a copy of Recovering? I’m not sure I would make . . . Continue reading →
Confessional Nitty Gritty: Animus Imponentis
Animus imponentis means, “the spirit of adopting,” the OPC Presbytery of Northern California and Nevada is holding a conference in February ’09 to talk about it (HT: Creed or Chaos). This is an important topic. We need confessions and they need to . . . Continue reading →
Monergism.com Reviews "Recovering"
Nathan writes: “In an arresting epithet, R. Scott Clark, wondering “whatever became of Reformed theology, piety, and practice,” refers to many contemporary Reformed churches and individuals as modern narcissists, so absorbed in themselves and their own importance that they have utterly lost . . . Continue reading →
Dan is Reading "Recovering the Reformed Confession"
“Based on the first chapter, this book will rattle some cages in the Reformed community. The only question is, are those who need to be rattled so busy knowing things the way that God knows them and having immediate experiences that they . . . Continue reading →
A Diagnosis of Reformed Churches
That’s what the Reformed Reader finds in Recovering the Reformed Confession.
J. H. Alsted's Theological Curriculum
More great stuff from Todd at Historical Theoblogy.
See You in the Springs
At the “Recovering the Reformation” Conference hosted by the Springs Reformed Church. Weather.com says that it should be a lovely weekend. According to the pre-registration the conference should be well attended. I’ll be speaking tomorrow night, Saturday morning, signing books Saturday afternoon, . . . Continue reading →