Some Thoughts on Method and Argument
Take a look at the first paragraph of this post: “In case any Reformed confessionalists actually wondered, Justin Taylor has made it official that he is a credo-baptist and by implication that...
View ArticleIs Christ Really There in the Old Testament?
For the answer, see these three fine resources: “The Gospel and Redemptive-Historical Hermeneutics” by Lane G. Tipton in Confident of Better Things, eds. Muether and Olinger. “For Our Sakes Also:...
View ArticleScottish Sermons and the Westminster Assembly
Anyone interested in an living, pulsing and rich window into the life of the 17th century is in for a treat with this new edition of collected sermons. These messages from God’s Word were delivered by...
View ArticleContest for Free 2011 Confessional Presbyterian Journal: We Have a Winner!
Congrats to Mr. R. Martin Snyder for winning a free copy of the Confessional Presbyterian Journal. Mr. Snyder submitted a biographical essay on the life and death of Samuel Rutherford. The end of the...
View ArticleFerguson on Soteriological Models
Sinclair Ferguson in his lecture, “The Reformed Doctrine of Sonship,” helpfully points out that any soteriological model which sets itself up as useful has to stand a series of tests: Is it a biblical...
View ArticleReformed Forum States of America
I’m sort of a recovering stats junkie. I grew up obsessed with baseball statistics and college football rankings. If Yahoo! fantasy baseball would have existed when I was a child, I may have gone years...
View ArticleBiblicism?
As I interact with Scripture’s relationship to how we should think and live, both within church walls and outside them, I frequently go back to two quotes that have helped me frame some principles for...
View ArticleAdam and Eve and Christ and the Church
Any kind of pre-marital counseling worth its salt will use Eph 5:22-33 in the course of teaching on marriage, and there’s a specific aspect within that passage that I need to get straight. So what...
View ArticleA Lesson on Productive Writing
In an interview, Meinold Krauss asked Karl Rahner how he was able to achieve his vast bibliography (4000+ entries at his passing). Rahner responded: You see, I’ve always gone to bed early and gotten up...
View ArticleThe Fractured Pastor and Multisite Churches
The pastor has been fractured today. I do not mean a particular pastor, particularly. Rather, what I have in mind is the office of the pastor itself. For example, it is all too common place – even in...
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