You may remember my recent post about the “Evening of Eschatology” at Bethlehem Baptist. Justin Taylor posted recently on What You Must Believe if You Are a Premillennialist, and included a lengthy chapter (really too long for a blog post) reprinted from a Sam Storms work-in-progress. Then Jim Hamilton posted a rebuttal, reiterating his argument […]
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This episode of The White Horse Inn from September 20 is a must-listen: Christianity and Popular Culture (it’s actually a rebroadcast from 12 years ago). Michael Horton and his guest Ken Myers offer a poignant and precise critique of the “Christian” industry ghetto, with its second-rate rock stars and cheesy praise choruses that bear more
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The Holy Spirit creates this desire [for holiness], not only by showing us our sins, but also by showing us God’s standard of holiness. He does this through the Scriptures. As we read and study the Scriptures or hear them taught, we are captivated by the moral beauty of God’s standard of holiness. Even though
I am thoroughly enjoying the Todd Wilken interviews with Dr. Kim Riddlebarger on the Lutheran Public Radio program, “Issues, etc.” (based in Illinois). Download the audio here. Two comments: 1) I had no idea about the lack of security Dispensationalists have, despite their “get-out-of-hell-free-card”, “ticket-to-heaven”, “once saved always saved” mantras. Mr. Wilken provides some really
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“We must guard, no doubt, against … doing violence to the text before us in the interests of Bible-harmony. But within due limits, surely, the order of investigation should be from the clearer to the more obscure. And it is to be feared that there has been much less tendency-interpretation of Rev. XX in the
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The third chapter of Michael Horton’s book Introducing Covenant Theology is a difficult one, but we are encouraged by looking at the opening of chapter four, where he says we have our most difficult work behind us. The chapter is entitled, “A Tale of Two Mothers”, after Galatians 4:21-31. First we have the covenant of
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I am getting ready to post on another Chapter from Michael Horton’s Introducing Covenant Theology, and I thought it might be helpful to clear up a couple things about covenant theology before we dig deeper into the book. In Reformed theology, we see three covenants in Scripture: Redemption, Works, and Grace. The Covenant of Redemption
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Leland Ryken notes: Hamlet’s friend Horatio quips, “I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.” A colloquial version of that would be, “I knew you would need an explanatory marginal note to figure that one out.” “Edified by the margent:” this is an allusion to a statement in the preface
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In celebration of John Calvin’s birthday, R.C. Sproul’s Ligonier Ministries is giving away a special gift every day this week “for a donation of any amount.” Today’s gift is Steven Lawson’s The Expository Genius of John Calvin, from his “Long Line of Godly Men Profiles” series. I encourage you to pick up a copy today.
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Dr. Timothy George on the embracing of Reformed theology by young people: Some of them haven’t read anything by R.C. Sproul or any of the famous reformed apologists that are out there today. They’ve just been reading the Bible, and reading it with an open mind and an open heart and this is where they’ve
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