Skipping The Cross
Most of the people who read this are aware of and have rejected what is commonly known as “the prosperity gospel.” This heresy of “name it, claim it” is advanced by such false teachers as Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, T.D.…
Month April 2008
Donald Macleod to receive DD from WTS
The Free Church of Scotland reports it here. It has been my privilege to know Principal Macleod for over twenty years now. He is Principal and Professor of Systematic Theology at the Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh, Scotland.…
I, like, totally agree and stuff
Yo. I’d just like to say that I like, totally agree and stuff with what the Rev Boadicea says. I mean, when I read the great confessions of the church — well, when my friends, like, told me about them…
Confessionalism and Male Oppression!
In preparing for the time of Bible-empowered sharing at my usual Sunday gig at St Olaf the Sublime, I came upon this outrageous piece of androcentric oppression from one of those dead white males who’s gruesome shadow lies so long…
Spiritual Discernment and the SBC
I have been very concerned for some time about the lack of spiritual discernment in the Southern Baptist Covention. It can be seen in the enthusiastic approval of the church growth movement and the influence of the emergenet church movement.…
Marketing Jesus
Reformation 21 has posted a provocative article by Stephen Nichols. Dr. Nichols illustrates well the ascendency of a Christian sub-culture that has done more to dilute and trivialize the faith than see it advance. You may want to check out…
What Music Cannot Do
God has ordained music and singing for the purpose of His praise. The Scriptures are full of exhortations to God’s people to sing and make music for the Lord. This is a blessing. God was gracious when He gave us…
Serpent-Sensitive Worship
A very fine column here by our friend Russell Moore on Brian McLaren’s recent address at a youth conference at Willow Creek. Make sure to read to the end to see how Russ ties the article together.
The shed blood of Christ: the foundation of Christianity
Another timely word from Horatius Bonar, in “Christ is All”: The Piety of Horatius Bonar, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker (2007), 79-80: What is Christianity? Not metaphysics, not mysticism, not a compliation of guesses at truth.…