July 30: Acts 17
We find that Paul has made his way to Athens, the great center of classical learning as well as pagan idolatry. What we discover is that rather than railing at the Greeks or separating from them, Paul engages them and…
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“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism”
What is the diet in our churches? It is something completely different from Christ and Him crucified. It’s me and me improved.” – Michael Horton from an interview with the Resurgence
No Substitute for Substitution
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…
Reading Jonathan Edwards
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…
A Testimony to Forgiveness
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…
A Testimony to Forgiveness
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…
July 29: Acts 16
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…
July 28: Act 15
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…
God’s Knowing and Man’s Knowing
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…
Summer Reading (with the children)
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…