Stephen Meyer
World Magazine’s (one of my favorite mags) Daniel of the Year is Dr. Stephen Meyer. Dr. Meyer is the director of the Discovery Institute’s Center of Science and Culture and author of the must read Signature in the Cell. From…
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The Myth of Neutrality
The late (d. 1995) great Greg Bahnsen. Dr. Bahnsen may well have been the greatest apologist of our generation. Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5
Good Reading for Kids
I am a strong proponent of adventure stories. They can teach such virtues as sacrifice, courage, honor, and perseverance. Fortunately, the history of God’s people is full of genuine adventure. A new book by Linda Finlayson is just the type…
D.A. Caron on being Gospel-Centered
From Justin Buzzard’s interview with D.A. Carson: 1. In a paragraph, what does it mean to be gospel-centered in one’s Christian life?Some think of the gospel as so slender it does nothing more than get us into the kingdom. After…
Defending Human Dignity
Al Mohler has commented on a recent decision by Dr. Fancis Collins concerning the use of human embryos in scientific research. The defense of human dignity is the responsibility of all human beings, but certain individuals bear a special responsibility…
Blog 234: 4.19.1 – 4.19.6
More on sacraments – additional ones invented by men. Using the formula that sacraments are “visible signs of an invisible grace” Calvin notes that there is no limit to the inventions that can pass this test. Reverting again to the…
Without the Word…
“…Without this transcendent Word in its life, the church has no rudder, no compass, no provisions. Without the Word, it has no capacity to stand outside its culture, to detect and wretch itself free from the seductions of modernity. Without…
Blog 233: 4.18.14 – 4.18.20
Calvin had studied Plato – no friend to Christianity – and is amused how accurately he depicted (in the Republic) the antics of medieval priests in celebrating the Mass – preying on the innocent and uneducated by fooling them into…
Blog 232: 4.18.8 – 4.18.13
Private Communion (or Masses): Calvin is against them. True, he is against the Mass “period”; but mutatis mutandis he is against private celebrations of the Lord’s Supper for the same reason: the Supper is meant to define the communion of…