He likes it. He gets it. ps. I can’t figure out how to comment there so I’ll do it here. He complains a bit that I didn’t focus much on the emergent movement/Mars Hill Church (I know there’s a distinction). I did . . . Continue reading →
Recovering the Reformed Confession
Cally Likes RRC!
It has to do with being delivered from a quirky form form of QIRC. You can order your copy of RRC here.
Phil is Reading RRC and Living It
And reflecting on it at his blog. He’s a minister in the other URC, the UK equivalent of the American United Churches of Christ. So it’s very much in the mainline where the URCNA is very much in the sideline. So it’s . . . Continue reading →
Chad is Reading RRC
He’s Young, Restless, but becoming Reformed.
Richard is Reading RRC
He’s interested in “Word and sacrament ministry.”
Tim Takes RRC to the Mat
At the Wrestling Mat.
Taylor is Reading RRC
And discussing it at the PB.
Pastor Echert is Still Reading RRC
He’s through the middle of the book and gives a fine summary.
Two-Way Traffic on the Presbyterian Mainline
One of the major reasons I wrote Recovering the Reformed Confession was to call attention to a weird sort of two-way traffic. Some in the Reformed Churches in North America and apparently in Scotland seem ready to abandon the very thing that . . . Continue reading →
Recent Reviews of RRC
UPDATE 3 June 09. You can track reviews of and comments on RRC via WordPress and at Amazon. 1. On the more friendly side, Shaun Nolan and Matt Bohling (WSC alumni and PCA pastors) have an edifying and thoughtful podcast:
Much in Every Way
That’s the answer. The question is, “What hath RRC to do with William Gurnall’s 17th-century (1617-79) English Reformed theology?”
A Review, Response, and Rejoinder (and Surrejoinder)
In the June/July 2009 issue of Ordained Servant Alan Strange published a surprisingly negative review of Recovering the Reformed Confession. The editor kindly invited me to reply and that reply appears today in the August/September issue. According to editorial policy, Alan gets . . . Continue reading →
Sept 18-19 Speaking in Traverse City, MI
I’ll be in Michigan at the meeting of presbytery at Redeemer PCA on Sept 18-19th. Traverse City is a beautiful place equidistant between Grand Rapids (to the south) and the Upper Peninsula (to the north). I look forward to seeing some old . . . Continue reading →
Audio: Horton on the Heidelberg Catechism
From the Adult Class at Christ Reformed URC in Santee (HT: Water is Thicker Than Blood)
See You in Traverse City
I’ll be (Dv) in beautiful (predicted high of 73°) Traverse City, MI this Friday and Saturday (Sep 18-19, 2009) speaking to the Great Lakes Presbytery (PCA) on Friday and Saturday. I’ll be talking about “The Mission and the Marks” and “The Joy . . . Continue reading →
Paleos: Reforming the Church; Neos: Transforming Culture
Darryl posts an interesting bit from Benedict’s social history of Calvinism.
The Synod of Dort on Importance of Parents in Instructing Children
Thanks to Wes for posting this.
RCA Prof Predicts Demise of the RCA (and the CRC)
Donald A. Luidens is a sociology prof at Hope College and he’s written a provocative and interesting essay in Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought (which I think is descended from the old Reformed Journal) in which he argues that loss of . . . Continue reading →
Be Still My Heart…Oh Never Mind
When I saw the headline….
Of Sacred Cows and Secret Societies
At the beginning of the Christian Reformed Church (CRCNA), in 1857, there were three great reasons given for separating from the Reformed Church in America (RCA): the RCA sang hymns instead psalms, the RCA did not send children to Christian schools, and . . . Continue reading →