Reformation21

Sorry, glitch with the first post. Had to republish this again. "Virtually all of the Reformed theologians of the era recognized, albeit in varying degrees, that there could be no relationship between God and the finite, mutable creature apart from grace. This was also the burden of the medieval...

Where should your children be during corporate worship? What does the Bible say about it? Does church history help us answer this question? Over the years, I have tried to read various positions regarding the inclusion of children during Sunday service or the departure of children, whether just...

EPCEW have a couple of conferences they've asked me to highlight The first being the London Presbyterian Conference on Sat 18th October with Ligon Duncan, Andy Young, Ian Hamilton and Bill Schweitzer which takes place in Central London The second being the Berlin Presbyterian Conference on 21/22...

The Baptists love their water; The Covenanters love their Psalter; But mess with the Klineans, You'll soon be on the altar! The good folk at Ref21 - that is, the top men - were so chuffed with my entrance into this intra-Reformed debate, that they'd like to see more publications on republication...

Earlier this summer Pete Enns wrote a blog post describing the pivotal role that I Cor. 10.4 played in his progressive rethink of the notion of biblical inerrancy (at least as that notion has been understood in traditional Reformed teaching). In that verse Paul, drawing exhortation for Corinthian...

In the 1990s and early noughties Australian cricket was dominant. Depressingly aggressive, they would come over to England and their bowlers would rip into us, their batsman would knock us all over the park and England were often left a quivering wreck. It was quite similar in conservative...

It's a big day for Ref21 - even after a busy summer with lots of unknown signings to the blog, right at the end of the transfer window like Man United signing Di Maria on deadline day, Ref 21 have pulled Donald Macleod out of the hat. The powers that be with all their negotiating powers I salute...

In parts 1 and 2 , I suggested that liturgy does not necessarily keep minorities away from our Presbyterian and Reformed churches. Following our examination of the liturgy, I wanted to pose another question: What about music? The so-called worship wars, as I read them, normally center around the...

How pleased and blest was I To hear the people cry, "Come, let us seek our God today!" Yes, with a cheerful zeal We haste to Zion's hill, And there our vows and honours pay. The excitement is building and the tension is mounting. We have been eagerly anticipating this day, a day on which we get to...

A regrettable piece was published on the Aquila report concerning the Reformed doctrine of republication. I honestly didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In it the author claims that the views of Meredith G. Kline represent "historic, mainstream Reformed federalism, espoused from the time of the...