All truth is God’s truth. —Augustine A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. —David Hume Bertrand Russell said, “Perhaps you may say that it would be rather a pity if Christian education were to cease, because you would then get no more Rationalists.” I concur (though I admit I can’t tell if he […]
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FRwAic8Qr8?rel=0] Ava, age 3, answering the first question of the catechism.
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWcr7DF67s8] Q: What is the chief end of man? A: The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. She’s getting there!
Ava’s learning the catechism! Read More »
Lee Irons posted some wonderful excerpts from 19th-century Scottish minister John Colquhoun’s "A Treatise on the Law and the Gospel." His first quote from pp. 55-56 presents an excellent summary of covenant theology: The violated covenant of works [in Adam]… was not, and could not be, made or renewed with the Israelites at Sinai; for
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I am a victim of church abuse. As a poor and young church musician in the late 1990s, I was taken advantage of and guilt-tripped into serving to the point of exhaustion. You may blame my own stupidity for this, but no pastors actually took me aside to explain the concept of free grace. During
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Rachel Held Evans, author of Evolving in Monkey Town, is blogging through N.T. Wright’s Scripture and the Authority of God. In her most recent entry in the series, she asserts, “I don’t like the word sovereignty because it’s the word that Calvinists use to explain why God predestines people for hell.” This is a fallacy.
John Piper is retiring from his role as Pastor for Preaching and Teaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, where he has served for 32 years since transitioning from seminary professorship. Jason Meyer has been nominated to succeed him, and I admit I have not heard of him. I owe a huge debt to John
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3FHMTAWHY&t=0&w=420&h=315] This is not Reformed polity. This is not sound exegesis. This is looking in the Bible for material to justify your bad behavior.
Driscoll goes all Nehemiah on their asses Read More »
As part of the current discussion on the origins of the Fundamentalism/Modernism controversy, I present the following paragraph from Charles Augustus Briggs’s address at Union Theological Seminary in 1891, The Authority of Holy Scripture. The third barrier is the authenticity of the Scriptures. The only authenticity we are concerned about in seeking for the divine
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Christianity is inconsistent with the present social condition of New York, and the other great cities of the world. We have no right to the name of Christians; we bring reproach on the name of Jesus Christ; we dishonor the God of the Bible, and are stumbling-blocks in the way of the suffering multitudes, obstructing
Briggs on the relationship between the gospel and our obedience to Jesus’ commands Read More »