Commenting on Commentaries
Is it just me, or do others find that so many commentaries are not all that helpful? It has been my observation for some time but it returned with avengance…
Derek Thomas
Congratulations Sean!
News has filtered out that our own Sean Lucas has received and accepted a call as the Senior Minister of First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi (PCA). Brian Chapell released a…
David Robertson on British radio
David Robertson sent me this link today of a recent interview he did on Premier Radio in London with the atheist blogger, Adrian Hayter. The program lasts 90 mins or…
Blog 60: 2.7.14 – 2.8.1
Blog 60 2.714 – 2.8.1Obligation to the keep the law as believers seems to many to legalistic and contrary to the gospel. Antinomianism has ever been an issue and Calvin…
Blog 59: 2.7.8 – 2.7.13
The pedagogic (and first) use of law is to “shut our mouths” (Rom. 3:19), not so as to lead us to utter despair (as is the case with the reprobate)…
Blog 58: 2.7.2 – 2.7.7
More covenant theology from Calvin: the covenant with David is a line of continuity with Moses, and the entirety as a preparation for the coming of Christ. Calvin walks between…
Blog 57: 2.6.3 – 2.7.1
More Christ-centered hermeneutics from Calvin: in short, that what is seen in the New is promised in the Old; that by covenant (mentioned five times in section 2.6.3 alone) God…
Blog 56: 2.5.18 – 2.6.2
More arguments against Calvin’s view of free will emerge. One from Ecclesiasticus which Calvin, knowing it to be of dubious authority as an apocryphal document, nevertheless patiently answers viewing these…
Bavinck giveaway
For those who have not yet purchased all things Bavinck in the hope that Christmas may come sooner in 2009, there is good news: our friends at Reformation Heritage Books,…
Paedo-communion
Cornelis Venema’s new book on paedo-communion is now available from Reformation Heritage Books: Children at the Lord’s Table: Assessing the Case for Paedocommunion. “Dr. Venema has done a great…