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What does the holiness of the minister have to do with the efficacy of the preached Word? Are we falling into a Donatist error (from Donatus who re-baptized clergy who had lapsed in the Great Persecution, A.D. 303-305) by insisting that the holiness of the minister has some sort of causal...

A council member from - ahem - The Gospel Coalition sent me this today. We here at Reformation21 nominate the entire Gospel Coalition, all 1,000,000+ of you. Carl Trueman's Ice-Bucket challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7XUU6DWSjU Some observations are in order: 1. We know Carl is against...

L.M. (Eden) Behold the blessèd Lamb of God, Who for the world poured out his blood; He died and suffered on the tree That men the grace of God might see. Behold the bleeding Sacrifice - Salvation at unmeasured price. He came to this dark world below, God's greatest blessing to bestow. Behold the...

Over at First Things Peter Leithart recently posted some comments on Gijsbert van den Brink's article in the July issue of the International Journal of Systematic Theology . Therein, van den Brink addresses recent lack of enthusiasm in academic theology for "social trinitarianism," i.e., the belief...

The Banner of Truth is entering the sphere of the digital reader! A first ten volumes have been released as ebooks, combining a mix of classics with more modern treatments. Among the ancients you will find Bunyan, Owen, Spurgeon and Brown. More modern volumes include Edward Donnelly's outstanding...

My friend Pastor James La Belle recently e-mailed me letting me know that the Presbyterian Church of Cape Cod is once again hosting its annual Cape Cod Reformed Conference in West Barnstable , Massachusetts on November 7-9, 2014 . The keynote speaker this year is Dr. Don Kistler. Dr. Kistler is a...

Years ago I was asked the following question by someone who holds to exclusive Psalmody: "Do you think it is better to sing God's words or man's words?" My answer: we should never sing man's words. But I say this as someone who sings hymns (e.g., "Be Thou My Vision"). As much as I love "Shine,...

NYU profs Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White open their history of logic, If A, then B: How the World Discovered Logic , with this: "The world is logical, according to some. Others call it absurd. We have never been sure who is right, but what we do know is that nobody grasps the absurd unless that...

Why do good things happen to bad people and why do bad things happen to good people? Strictly speaking, there has only ever been one good person who has had bad things happen to him, and he volunteered! But the Scriptures are filled with examples of good things happening to bad people (Mal. 3:15;...

I've been on holiday and camp but have returned to find out that nothing has changed in the world of reformed evangelicals and everything has changed. First of all seeing Mark Jones drop the M bomb at Ref 21; we've all thought about it but never been brave enough to write the post. Even Trueman has...