Something for the weekend
Lee Gatiss has a helpful video on the Lord’s Supper, you probably want to stick it on in the background as looking at his ugly mug close up and shameful advertising of his own books is pretty unbearable. However what he…
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Jesus plus nothing equals everything
From Calvin, Institutes, 3.16.19 We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation,…
Introducing Jose De Segovia
Last weekend it was our privilege to have Jose De Segovia with us. Jose preached for our Presbytery, spoke at our adult Sunday School and preached for us on Sunday evening. It did our church family the world of good…
Christian Satire at its best
In the past I’ve been hard on Australians, minimalism and biblical theology gone totally mad but there are times when you have to take your hat off to them. This is one of those occasions and I want to give…
Calvin contra Rome on Scripture (Part 1)
For an explanation of what follows, see the previously posted introduction to this series. Calvin discerned four basic claims in Rome’s teaching on Scripture as discovered in the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent. The first claim was comprised…
The murky world of missions
The American missionaries that I work with are the best; I wouldn’t swap any of them. They’ve served us so well and helped us, strengthened our congregation and enabled us to reach people we wouldn’t have been able to reach without…
Calvin contra Rome on Scripture (Introduction)
I intend to offer, over the next several weeks, a four part series on Calvin’s response to Rome’s doctrine of Scripture as discovered in the fourth session of the Council of Trent. It’s my impression that very few Protestants today…
To Enjoy, To Use, and To Be Used: Augustine on Everything
In the opening chapters of On Christian Teaching (I.1-5), Augustine argues that everything that exists can be divided into two groups: things to be used and things to be enjoyed. “To enjoy a thing,” he proposes, “is to rest with…
Something positive
Jeremiah Burroughs, in the book Gospel Conversation, tells us that “the gospel of Christ in general is this”: It is the good tidings that God has revealed concerning Christ…. More largely it is this: As all mankind was lost in…
Making it clearer
Bruce Baugus has responded carefully to what I had written in reaction to the proposed series on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT). I thought it might be helpful to expand my initial response,…