One of my pet theological peeves is a distortion of the value of “emphasis.” Heresy is a matter of right or wrong, affirmation or denial. Someone can be imbalanced by being . . . imbalanced, but damnable error involves more than being half a bubble off. On top of that, critiquing “emphases” lends itself to …
Blessed Are the Fleeced
This last Lord’s Day, something occurred to me in the course of the sermon, something which I mentioned in passing. But then as I was reading the Scriptures this last week, the same point jumped off the page at me, and in a far more explicit way than what I had seen before. I was …
hitchens.vs.wilson@gmail.com
Here are the unfolding details about the Hitchens/Wilson book tour/debate, as I understand those details. I will be with Christopher Hitchens next Wednesday (October 29) at King’s College in the Empire State Building at twelve noon. This will be a book signing event in a town hall style meeting, hosted by Marvin Olasky, who is …
Don’t Think Anybody Saw That Coming
HT: Justin Taylor
Wahoo
I have needed to decide what I am going to do in this Mad Hatter election, and I have needed to give my reasons for it here. We have already discussed many of those reasons back and forth, but I want to give a brief summary of my thoughts now. I have not voted for …
A Couple Doctrinal Pathologies
One of the things we must come to understand is that the various theological and practical pathologies that afflict the Church today are very rarely new. There is nothing, Solomon taught us, new under the sun. A common error in conservative Protestant circles is the error of propositionalism. This is the error that holds that …
Molten Butterscotch
The next chapter is up, and some of the threads start to come together.
True Communion of Saints
Every Lord’s Day, we confess that we believe in the communion of saints. This precious doctrine means that Christ’s Church is genuinely and really one, and that when we gather in worship, we are gathering together with all true saints everywhere, and we are doing so in the heavenly places, as we assemble in the …
The Father and Fat Souls
God is our Father, and one of the things that fathers are called to do is provide. “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it” (Prov. 10:22). Now this meal is the blessing of the Lord—we are told explicitly that the cup is the cup of blessing. Now …
Back from Houston Now
We just had a glorious time at CREC Council this year in Houston. The way our polity is structured, presbyteries meet once a year for business (they may meet more frequently for fellowship and singing), and the Council meets every third year. On those third years, the Council and presbyteries meet in the same place …