John Frame’s new book, The Escondido Theology, is finally out and available. I commend it to you. After you have read it, you may then google up responses/reviews to it, clamber into your canoe of irencism, and paddle all over a small mountain lake of snark.
The State of the Church 2012
INTRODUCTION:Our duties toward God and man are concrete duties. All of our duties are attached to names, and faces, and places. We have no duties in isolation; all duties occur in the context of relationships. But in order to love as we ought in each particular instance of a relationship we need to understand how …
Name Tags and the Lord’s Supper
This is the Table of the Lord, just as the Bible is the Word of the Lord. Both the Table and the Word contain great and precious promises. But here is the question, one that has troubled many (in one sense) and not troubled near enough (in another). Are these promises for you? Is your …
Come, Let Us Reason
When God invites us to reason together with Him, He invites us to think about something that makes plain sense. When men are given over to what they call the pursuit of reason, they are often trying to manufacture something that doesn’t make sense except to a select few. God stoops and offers to wash …
What She Doesn’t Have for Sale
As I have done some blog touring during this political season, I have come across a category of “conservative” blogs that try to adhere to what is called Rule 5 by a number of these blogs. I think the rule was formulated by Stacy McCain (theothermccain.com), offering to teach you how to get a million …
What the Goblins Under the Mountain Call It
Yeats notwithstanding, we are not exactly slouching toward Bethlehem. Slouching toward Bedlam is more like it. As the culture around us has gotten ever weirder, and as the leadership of our Reformed and evangelical subculture has done its level best to keep abreast of all the latest advances (lest we be dismissed for being what …
Josiah Will Find It
In the typological relationship of Old Testament to New Testament, we have to remember the importance of terrain. Mountain ranges answer to mountain ranges, great rivers to great rivers, canyons to canyons, and of course, ordinary meadows to ordinary meadows. A great mountain would be something like the relationship of Adam to the second Adam …
When to Stop and Smell the Cattle Barns
I am fond of saying that God is perfect, but He is not a perfectionist. There are many ways in which we might pursue this, but I want to talk about our political process for a moment. I agree with and accept one of the criticisms that is made of the Ron Paul movement — …
And Then, Wham
As news comes in that China is starting to teeter, allow me to take a moment to remind everybody that there are two kinds of money. Given that miscreants are often put in charge of economies, the boundary between the two kinds of money is frequently murky, but it is important to note the two …
The Politics of Christmas
Introduction The carnal, unbelieving mind always understands political rule in a particular way. The names may change—Pharaoh, Caesar, pope, or president-for-life—but the underlying realities are always the same. These realities have to do with tyranny and coercion, and the imposition of a right-handed power, the kind of power that is necessarily suspicious of biblical liberty. …