A Courteous Pause
I’ve been asked by the cabal of nameless puppet masters who run Ref21 to take a time-out while Dr. Jones formulates his response to my first two parts of the “Just Add Water” series, and I’ll be doing that. I…
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Michael Haykin’s Response to: “A Plea For Realism”
Professor Michael Haykin has responded to my piece on Baptists and the Lord’s Supper. Dr. Haykin is a leading Baptist historian, an excellent scholar, and most importantly he is a godly Christian man with strong convictions. I praise God for…
Just Add Water (2 of 4)
This is the second of 4 parts in response to Dr. Mark Jones on the question and meaning of Baptism and the Lord’s table as the question stands between Baptistic types who practice a closed table and Presbyterian types who…
What is Domestic Violence?
The month of October has been designated Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The goal of this month is to raise public awareness about domestic violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to recognize, prevent, and respond to domestic violence.…
What is Domestic Violence?
The month of October has been designated Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The goal of this month is to raise public awareness about domestic violence and to educate communities and individuals on how to recognize, prevent, and respond to domestic violence.…
Just Add Water (1 of 4)
Well, I was going to go on a bit more about the necessity of the local church in the posts headed to this space, but our dear brother in Christ Dr. Mark Jones has done what Presbyterians are prone to…
The Cure for Shame
“Shame. Boatloads of shame. Day after day. More of the same. Blame. Please lift it off. Please take it off. Please make it stop.” Those words are not just the lyrics to a famous Avett Brothers’ song, they are also…
“A Plea For Realism”: Are Presbyterians Christians?
Presbyterian ecclesiology has some advantages. For example, we try to refrain from being sectarian. There is a healthy catholicity to our ecclesiology, which is seen in our communion practice (section 7; see also PCA, BOCO 57-5). In relation to our healthy…
The Joys (and Sorrows) of Parenting: Calvin on Gen. 4.1-26
By virtue of his sin Adam “was banished from that royal palace of which he had been the lord.” Yet God did not leave Adam homeless; “he obtained elsewhere” — somewhere east of Eden — “a place in which he…
Turretin’s treasure
About fifteen years ago at one of the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society, Allan Fisher gave me, a poor doctoral student at the time, one of the best gifts that an aspiring student of theology could ever receive:…