Humans want to carve out some place for their own natural abilities when it comes to doings works that conform to God’s law. Ethicists will sometimes talk about “natural law,” an inbred standard of right and wrong that is common…
Congratulations are in order to our very own Sean Lucas and to D.G. Hart and to John Muether, editors and author respectively of the Cornelius Van Til volume in the American Reformed Biography series by P&R. Richard Mouw has a…
This was a fasincating opinion piece in the Christian Science Monitor (I was referred to it from my facebook homepage; how do you like that, Carl?). The writer essentially argues that because evangelicals have linked themselves to the culture war…
A fascinating article from 21st Century Science & Technology Magazine by Dr. Wolfgang Lillge exposes where the real promise in stem cell research resides: Adult stem cells. Dr. Lillge writes: Embryonic stem cells are taken from a developing embryo at…
On March 8 President Obama signed an executive order allowing the use of taxpayer money to be used to destroy human embryos for scientific research. An article addressing this issue appeard today in the Wall Street Journal by Robert George.…
Typically Bishop Ridding introduced his litany with words like these: “Seeing, brethren, that we are weak men but entrusted with a great office, and that we cannot but be liable to hinder the work entrusted to us by our infirmities…
As we come to the last of our studies in the Apostles’ Creed, we cannot help but be struck by the way it ends: I believe ‘…in the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting’. Given the brevity of…
As we come to the last of our studies in the Apostles’ Creed, we cannot help but be struck by the way it ends: I believe ‘…in the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting’. Given the brevity of…
A friend has shared with me a litany, or formal order for prayer, written by Dr. George Ridding, the first Bishop of Southwell. The litany was designed for use at meetings of the clergy it was his privilege to supervise…
Having talked about the knowledge of “earthly matters” which reason can attain by God’s common grace (2.2.13-16), Calvin argues that spiritual insight–knowledge about “heavenly matters”–consists in three things: knowing God; knowing his fatherly favor in our behalf; and knowing how…
