Trinitarianism
Given the fact that the Trinitarian identity of the Christian God is the identity of the Christian God, how do the other bloggers on Ref21 (who are all ministers) ensure that the action of worship in their churches on a…
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Spurgeon on Assurance
“Nobody ever did perish trusting in Jesus. There has not been through all these centuries a single instance of a soul being cast away that came all guilty and hell-deserving, and took Christ to be its salvation. If you perish,…
A Warning for Young Readers
Even a brief perusal of the Fall 2007 Eerdmans Books for Young Readers shows how far the publisher’s mission has moved, not to say strayed, from its Reformed and evangelical heritage. To be sure, there are promising titles in the catalog. But…
A Single Eye
A week or two ago I made a post on a new biography of C. Stacey Woods. Here is a characteristic quotation from his message “A Single Eye,” first given at the Urbana Conference in 1954: “If a Christian has…
What Would Luther Do?
Writing in USA Today this week, Skidmore College’s Mary Zeiss Stange argues that Martin Luther would join her in blessing same-sex unions. The basic argument for this is as conventional as it is false, namely, that the genius of the Reformation…
No little people
Rev Bryan Follis of Belfast kindly sent me a copy of his new book, Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer (Crossway). I was very moved (convicted?) by the conclusion of the book:
The Pope is Catholic After All
Martin Downes, the great Welsh ecumenist, brought this article in The Times to my attention. As Tipton and Oliphint exclude Trueman from the congregation of the faithful, so the Pope now excludes everyone outside his own communion: Looks like…
A good day for conspiracy theories…….
I see that K Scott Oliphint and Lane G Tipton have published a new book, Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed APologetics (P and R). It seems that every member of Westminster’s Theological Field was invited to contribute, with…
Paul Helm and N. T. Wright
Paul Helm has posted his analysis of N. T. Wright’s ordo salutis on his blog. His conclusion? “With the help of the distinctions between temporal and logical order, and events and states, we are able to see that Wright’s view…
The Rest of Faith
Rick Phillips made the mistake of asking me to give the charge at his installation as the twelfth senior minister of the Second Presbyterian Church in Greenville, SC. I chose the (admittedly unusual and presumably unprecedented) text of Hebrews 4:9-11…