Blog 190: 4.8.13-4.9.3
Calvin now deals with what his opponents’ objections and defenses of their additions to God’s Word. Won’t the Spirit guide us into truth (John 16:13)? Yes, but only through the…
Justin Taylor
Blog 189: 4.8.8-12
Servants of God can have full confidence to declare God’s word, a sure message from the Creator to his world. Our powerful weapons of warfare are not the inventions of…
Blog 188: 4.8.1-7
Calvin insists on two presuppositions for thinking about the power of the Church: (1) it must be aimed toward edification for God’s people, and (2) such edification must be done…
Why Churchless Christianity Doesn’t Work
Katie Galli at CT interviews Kevin DeYoung about his recent book (co-authored with Ted Kluck), Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion.
Hodge vs. Nevin on the Lord’s Supper
Keith Mathison of Ligonier has put together a blog post linking to the primary documents in the debate between Charles Hodge and John Williamson Nevin on the Lord’s Supper, resulting…
What Baptists Can Learn From Calvin
Timothy George, writing at Christian History, writes: “2009 is a good time to look again at Calvin’s theology and its relationship to the Baptist movement. Here are five theological principles…
Comparing BibleWorks, Logos, and Accordance
Keith Mathison of Ligonier offers a helpful comparative review of these Bible software programs.
The Gospel and the Idol of Busyness
One of the things I’m learning is that busyness–doing good things–can itself become an idol, and that it’s easy to have false guilt about all the good things I’m not…
Themelios
The latest issue of Themelios is now online. In addition to a number of reviews there are lots of pieces worth reading: Carson on polemical theology, Trueman on advice for…
Blog 139: 3.19.8 – 3.19.12
Romans 14:14 is an initially perplexing but important verse. First, no external things are unclean/unholy in and of themselves. Second, if your conscience (even incorrectly) deems something unclean/unholy, then to…