This year we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation when the German Augustinian monk Martin Luther nailed a long series of academic debating points about the medieval Roman Catholic penitential system (the 95 theses) to…
Any theological system worth its salt affirms that faith is a gift from God rather than the exercise of some innate power of the human soul. But that affirmation can be misleading, particularly so if one’s notion of “gift” is…
This is the fourth and final article in Garry Williams’ series on the Church & the World. To read the first, please find the first here, the second here and the third here ~ the Editor My first article began with…
This is the fourth and final article in Garry Williams’ series on the Church & the World. To read the first, please find the first here, the second here and the third here ~ the Editor My first article began with…
Given the controversies surrounding justification in his day, it’s no surprise that Calvin camps out on Gen. 15.6 (“[Abraham] believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness”) for a significant space of time in his commentary on…
A passage from Calvin’s commentary on Ezekiel 18:14-17 has the distinction of being among the last, perhaps the last, of his comments on the relationship among justification, faith and works. Apparently written shortly before his death in 1564, it is…
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…
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…
v. Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man’s duty to endeavour to repent of his particular sins particularly. vi. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to…
v. Men ought not to content themselves with a general repentance, but it is every man’s duty to endeavour to repent of his particular sins particularly. vi. As every man is bound to make private confession of his sins to…
