This is just a short sketch of something that requires much fuller treatment. On top of that, this is a statement about just one aspect of this problem, and not an attempt to minimize the other problems that might be in play. Pastors are usually husbands as well, and this means that when a pastor …
The Gospel Stone/Romans 38
INTRODUCTION: If Christ is the stone, then the message of Christ is the message stone. People confess with their mouth and are saved, and people stumble over the words of grace and are lost forever. Preaching the stone is therefore a preaching of a gospel stone, and not a gospel cushion or pillow. The stone, …
Bottle Blondisity
Modern evangelicalism is a day-old doughnut, but this may require further explanation. We flatter ourselves by saying that evangelicalism is over here doing its thing, and American culture is over there marching to a different drummer entirely. If we are convicted by our sins and inconsistencies, we like to think that they are self-contained sins …
Christ’s Only Fast
Book 4/Chapter 12 Superstitious fasting (section 19) 1. What are the three dangers that Calvin mentions with regard to fasting? Christ and fasting (section 20) 1. How many times is it recorded that Christ fasted? 2. Why did He fast? Corrupt fasting (section 21) 1. How had the Romanists corrupted fasting? Clerical restrictions (section 22) …
A Really Big Announcement
October, 2009 Dear Friends of Credenda, I am writing with some exciting news, and a request for help. You do get these letters from us periodically, asking you to support our happy little magazine, and so you may file this letter with all the others. (You do file them, right?) At the same time, because …
A Big Misunderstanding?
There is a new evangelical group blog that looks pretty lively, and which also looks like a good addition to the fray. HT: Justin Taylor It was there, however, that Jared Wilson wrote a bit on why the culture war will go to hell. He gave ten reasons that I would like to interact with …
Ecclesiastical Chamber Pots
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable …
Song of Songs Conference in the UK
For any of our friends near the northern part of London, you may want to check this out.
Or Maybe a Six-Inch Stick
The short articles that Christopher and I wrote are now up on The Huffington Post here. The comments look like a ten-year-old boy investigated a hornets’ nest with an eight-inch stick.
Killing and Dying
Just a quick note on a nagging problem in hermeneutics, a problem that pomo monkeyshines help serve to highlight. To the extent that pomo thinking robs us of an authoritative word, the more it tries to leave us with a series of bad choices, all of them arbitrary and capricious. Here is the dilemma: As …