“‘The pastor ought to have two voices: one for gathering the sheep; and another for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the mean of doing both.” Moreover, the believer himself must continually be assisted to mortify in himself those natural tendencies that run continually so counter to the …
Some Turtles Have to Fly With the Shell
One of the foundation stones of a mere Christendom has to be a root and branch rejection of Darwinism. The reason for this is not hard to ascertain — Darwinism is one of the chief cornerstones of the secular state. We are acquainted with the standard liberal metaphor of the Constitution as a “living document,” …
Ecumenical Polemics
This morning Trinity Reformed Church and Christ Church held a joint service, which we do every year on Reformation Sunday. Peter Leithart preached from Galatians 2 and 3, on Trinitarian justification, and while he was preaching, several of the premises he laid out on the way to his conclusion had an additional benefit of helping …
Grace Running Around Loose
I know that not all the readers of this blog are Protestant, but most are, and so I would like to ask you all to take a moment to thank the Lord for the faith and courage of our dear brother, Dr. Martin Luther. We are now just seven years away from celebrating 500 years …
Players, Printers, Preachers
Because this is a Sunday, we are commemorating our Lord’s resurrection from the dead. Because it is All Saints Eve, we are acknowledging all the elect of God from every century, from every tribe and nation, north, south, east or west. And because it is Reformation Sunday, we are marking the great work of God …
What Flows From Here
This is a time of year when many people are decorated up in frightening ways, running around saying frightening things, trying to scare other people. But take heart; the election will be over on Tuesday. Coincidentally, today is also Halloween, when many are trying to frighten people in other ways. But how are we to …
Lusts and Labels
One of the characteristics of lust is that it hates to be constrained. This applies as much to political lusts as to sexual desire, and it explains a great deal about the dishonesty of the progressive mentality. How many times, when you have asked someone a specific question about some important issue, have you been …
Which Explains a Lot, Actually
“In short, those who oppose sola Scriptura to the ancient creeds have not yet recognized that sola Scriptura is itself an ancient creed. Take away creedal authority, and you may for a time have just ‘me and my Bible.’ But the definition of Scripture is itself a creedal issue, and if one is consistent in …
And When He Doesn’t, There Isn’t
“In the event of God’s ‘connecting Himself’ thus with the preacher, to make his act of speaking the effective Word of the Lord, a relationship is set up between the human act of the preacher and the divine action of grace which we may call a sacramental union . . . when God graciously comes …
Kenneth or Hobart
“In American Christianity, it is commonplace to think that ‘pure’ Christianity disappeared from the globe with the death of the last apostle, not to reappear again until a revelation of some kind came to Hobart Jonhe in a cornfield in southeastern Nebraska. There are many versions of this faith, but the broad outlines are the …