Today is All Saints Day, the super-bowl Sunday of sacred relics in the Roman Catholic Church. Not many people realize that this is the reason why Reformation Day is the same as Halloween (All Hallows Eve). Luther was specifically protesting…
It’s late here in Washington D.C. I am tired. I miss my family. I miss Metro East. Large cities are exhausting. It has been so long since I lived in Houston I have forgotten what it is like. Subways are…
Martin Luther once said that an uneducated layman armed with the Scriptures was to be believed above popes and councils without the Scriptures. As a seminary president and professor of theology, no one valued education more than Luther. He simply…
Kelly Kapic and our own Justin Taylor have just edited John Owen’s classic work Communion with the Triune God. It is everything that one can hope for in theology: Trinitarian, Gospel-centered, passionate, written by a prince among all theologians. The…
Carl Trueman was Al Mohler’s guest yesterday on Mohler’s radio show. Here’s a description: At least one prominent evangelical has suggested that the Reformation is “over” and it is time for Protestants and Roman Catholics to reconcile. On today’s program,…
October 31st of this year marks the 490th anniversary of Martin Luther’s outrageous act of nailing his “95 Theses” to the door of the castle church at Wittenberg. It was, at the time, the shot heard round the world. The…
Some have been emailing asking where I’ve been. Well, yesterday I was in Jackson, MS and guess what? I saw Del emerging from a hairdresser’s salon, sans his trademark soul patch and ponytail. Can it be that Reformed theology’s answer…
I saw this posted over at “Expository Thoughts” and had to pass it along.
Justin Taylor posted these helpful words from Michael Horton. In light of the approach of Reformation Day I pass it along to you (Catholic or Orthodox).
The following is an important article by R.C. Sproul entiteld, “The Pelagian Captivity of the Church”: During the Protestant Reformation Martin Luther wrote a little book that was highly controversial. It was a massive critique of the Roman Catholic sacramental…
