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Machen’s Apologizing Children

Carl Trueman of Westminster Seminary reflects on Time Magazine naming “the new Calvinism” as one of the ten things shaping our culture today: Some months ago, I wrote a short piece for the e-zine, Reformation 21 , about the tendency…

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Lecrae – Don’t Waste Your Life

I am excited about a number of rappers who are writing some seriously good lyrics. Who would have thought that we would see rap that is grounded in Scripture and influenced by the great Reformers? Good stuff.

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Luther on Christ’s Substitutionary Atonement

‘This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace to sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange our sins are no longer ours but Christ’s: and the righteousness of Christ not Christ’s but ours. He has emptied himself of his…

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Getting Substitutionary Atonement Right

“The penal substitution model has been criticized for depicting a kind Son placating a fierce Father in order to make him love man, which he did not do before. The criticism is, however, inept, for penal substitution is a Trinitarian…

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Ancient Word, Changing Worlds (3)

I am continuing my reading of Ancient Word, Changing Worlds by Nichols and Brandt. As chapter one continues there is mention of J. Gresham Machen, a champion of inerrancy and Harry Emerson Fosdick whose views boldly diverged from biblical orthodoxy.…