I’ve come across an article from CRI about the authoritarianism and isolationism of the Pearls and the entire movement of which they are just one arm. Author Rachel D. Ramer traces it back to the theonomy of R.J. Rushdoony: Considered the father of Christian Reconstructionism, Rushdoony has stated, “All the basic governmental powers in society, […]
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The Reformed understanding of things is that we do not have immediate access to God’s being. We have mediated access through God the Son incarnate and through the preaching of the gospel and the administration of the sacraments. The goal of our theology is to think God’s thoughts after him, as his image-bearers, as analogues.
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For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear
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For any of you who may be lurking on my blog, wondering what happened to the series on Mike Horton’s book Introducing Covenant Theology, I have not forgotten it. I took time out to read Kim Riddlebarger’s A Case for Amillennialism, and now I’m reading R. Scott Clark’s Recovering the Reformed Confession. The young church
Alistair Begg says: General Jackson is a legend in American History. Any of you who have read of Jackson know that he was a man of extreme principle and character. At the very heart of this was his conviction of faith in Jesus Christ. And his extreme rigorous character attached itself also to the observance
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“The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture, is the Scripture itself; and therefore, when there is a question about the true and full sense of any scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it may be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly.” Westminster Confession of Faith, I.9.
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Kim Riddlebarger takes a crack at the meaning of the First Resurrection in Revelation 20, and also discusses the “already and not yet” aspect of our “already raised” status in Christ. Sounds familiar. 😉 “The Age of the Holy Spirit” (mp3) I know some of you will appreciate this.
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Observe: “Jesus can help me get a promotion and he can relieve my stress.” –John Frame “God is concerned about human happiness, even in the details of our lives.” –John Frame “Preaching cannot possibly have the precise emphasis that Scripture has, for its work is not to replicate Scripture but to apply Scripture to its
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Richard Gaffin, quoted by Rev. Kim Riddlebarger in A Case for Amillenialism: The unity of the resurrection of Christ and the resurrection of believers is such that the latter consists of two episodes in the experience of the individual believer—one which is already past, already realized [e.g. Col. 2:12: “having been buried with him in
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“True saints have their minds, in the first place, inexpressibly pleased and delighted with the sweet ideas of the glorious and amiable nature of the things of God. And this is the spring of all their delights, and the cream of all their pleasures: it is the joy of their joy. This sweet and ravishing
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