Congratulations to Sean
Let me add my congratulations to Sean Lucas, and to First Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg, MS, for his call to their pulpit. I am always delighted when our best men…
Rick Phillips
Twitter Church — Too Funny!
If you don’t know about the Tominthebox news network, you are wrong. An example is this spoof about a Twitter church. It is too funny (and just a bit scary),…
The Soul of Longshanks Speaks
I will take Carl’s gratuitous appeal to Prov. 26:4 as a concession of defeat to my unimpeachable visual evidence. (I didn’t think such pitiful argumentation qualified for scholarship in England.) …
Evangelical Collapse Revealed by Studies of Parenting
I’m sure many of our readers have seen or heard about Michael Spenser’s article, picked up in the Christian Science Monitor, “The Coming Evangelical Collapse.” I strongly agree with his…
Universalism, Racism… Paedobaptism?
In a recent column over at 9 Marks, our good friend Mark Dever offered a list of things he can and cannot abide with in a church. Only three items…
English Rugby or Kennedy Family Touch Football?
Sorry it took me so long to answer Carl’s eccentric rants regarding English rugby vs. American football. I took the liberty of posting in a couple of pictures (see extended…
Blog 25: 1.13.23 – 1.13.25
Let me conclude this week’s blogs on the Institutes with a general plug for the value of thinking about God in a Trinitarian way. We rightly talk about having a…
Blog 24: 1.13.18 – 1.13.22
These sections on the Trinity are especially valuable to Christians, who are greatly helped if we can begin to think of God and salvation in explicitly Trinitarian terms. It has…
Blog 23: 1.13.13 – 1.13.17
In the opening section, Calvin concludes his defense of Christ’s deity. This last assertion of deity arises from Christ’s miracles. He takes it as self-evident that the miracles display the…
Blog 22: 1.13.8 – 1.13.12
In these sections, Calvin proves the deity of Christ over against those who would deny it. The argument here provides a good instance of Calvin’s proof-texting. We generally hear of…