ii. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the alone instrument of justification. The Westminster Confession unabashedly declares justification through faith alone. It defines faith as “receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness,” calling faith…
i.Those whom God effectually calleth, he also freely justifieth: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not or anything wrought in them, or done by them, but…
I remember the first time I read Augustine. I was a final year undergraduate at Cambridge on the Classical tripos but taking the course, Christian Life and Thought to A.D. 451 from outside my faculty. Those were the days: university…
I remember the first time I read Augustine. I was a final year undergraduate at Cambridge on the Classical tripos but taking the course, Christian Life and Thought to A.D. 451 from outside my faculty. Those were the days: university…
My friend Dana is on a roll. Not even two weeks after writing her wonderful article, The Wine Kitchen, she submitted this article about her struggle with the word Easter. So enjoy my new Housewife Theologian guest blogger, Dana Tuttle,…
iv. Others, not elected, although they may be called by the ministry of the Word, and may have some common operations of the Spirit, yet they never truly come unto Christ, and therefore cannot be saved: much less can men,…
For the same reason that atheists are, we talk about God too much. For some cockamamie reason, I don’t have a “Housewife Theologian” Facebook page. I know it’s not the smartest (non)move, but it fits in the same category for…
iii. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ through the Spirit, who worketh when, and where, and how He pleaseth: so also, are all other elect persons who are incapable of being outwardly called by the…
The real problem with shifting the church’s position on homosexuality is ultimately this: it looks kind but it embodies cruelty of the worst and most perilous sort. Do not take my word for it; read this.
The real problem with shifting the church’s position on homosexuality is ultimately this: it looks kind but it embodies cruelty of the worst and most perilous sort. Do not take my word for it; read this.
