Rejected
Apparently, in my distress tear-laden state I applied an incorrect hyperlink to the sermon preached by Dr Bill Barcley at Rev Carl’s ordination.
Derek Thomas
PCA General Assembly
Many of the Ref21 bloggers are at Disneyworld where this year’s PCA General Assembly is meeting, Phil Ryken has been spied wearing Mickey Mouse ears. Sean Lucas was heard making…
Summer Reading
More on Summer reading… My summer reading began with the publication of Calvin’s Sermons on Genesis 1-11 (trans. Rob Roy McGregor, Banner of Truth). Preached in 1559-60 they prepresent particularly…
Blog 114: 3.6.1 – 3.6.5
Calvin begins a new section here comprising five chapters given over to the nature of the Christian life. It knew a separate existence from the Institutes published as a booklet…
Blog 115: 3.7.1 – 3.7.7
This is one of the most memorable passages in all of the Institutes beginning with those words, “We are not our own…” For Calvin, self-denial and cross-bearing are the twin…
Blog 113: 3.5.9 – 3.5.10
Yet more on purgatory; Calvin really does not like this absurd doctrine and takes up a passage, the interpretation of which has bothered folk in our time in an entirely…
Blog 112: 3.5.3 – 3.5.8
3.5.3 – 3.5.8More on the error of indulgences, “this impious dogma” and “more astounding blasphemy” which, by suggesting the worth of “the heavenly treasury” turns Christ into a mere “saintlet.”…
Blog 111: 3.4.36 – 3.5.2
More attacks on man’s perennial problem of a works-righteousness mentality, this time by medieval Catholic insistence that “love covers a multitude of sins” – that is, with God. Calvin correctly…
Church of Scotland … again
Dr. John Ross has written another helpful reflection on matters relating to the recent General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, here.
More on the tragic decision of the Church of Scotland
David Meredith has blogged here, and David Robertson can be heard being interviewed for a local news station here.And Willie Philips response to his own congregation here.