Over at the Resurgence, Michael Horton explains the cruciality of the substitutionary atonement of Christ. When it comes to interpreting Christ’s saving work, everything turns on our view of God’s character and the seriousness of sin. God’s law is not…
Westminster Bookstore is having a great sale on a great new product – The Essential Edwards Collection (5 Vol.). Jonathan Edwards is not the easiest to read theologian. Okay, that’s an understatement. But Owen Strachan and Doug Sweeney have done…
Seeing Derek’s reference to Ned and Steve’s new book, I was reminded of Ned’s late father-in-law, Dick Symons, a truly charming and kind Christian man, a member of Emmanuel OPC in Wilmington, and one who went out of his way…
Seeing Derek’s reference to Ned and Steve’s new book, I was reminded of Ned’s late father-in-law, Dick Symons, a truly charming and kind Christian man, a member of Emmanuel OPC in Wilmington, and one who went out of his way…
This is another important chapter for understanding Presbyterian and Reformed practice. What we find here is this basic principle: households are counted among the visible people of God based on the faith of the household head. The first example of…
I never tire from telling our people that Acts 15 is one of the key texts for Presbyterian and Reformed polity. And that is because in this text we see that the church is not merely local and universal, but…
In reading posts at Biologos I have been struck by the biblical scholars who seem to suggest that their apprehension of truth is of higher authority than what is revealed in God’s Word. In other words, when something in the…
The Church History ABCs by Stephen Nichols & Ned Bustard (Crossway, 2010) Delightfully produced, hilariously illustrated, the Church History ABCs captures the imagination by introducing children to 26 characters from church history, from Augustine to Zwingli. Bunyan was asked…
Every time I’ve ever read this text, I’ve thought how well it describes ministry. In particular, we have here two wrong responses to ministers and their ministry of the Word. First, people respond wrongly to ministers when they idolize them.…
When I was working on my first post-graduate theological degree, we were given the assignment of studying the sermons in Acts and discovering the core of the apostolic Gospel. One of the longer sermons in the book of Acts is…
