Not sure what the cause of my lollygagging was, but I just now got around to reading Scott Clark’s gentle rebuke of John Piper, for the sin of having anything to do with me. You can read that rebuke here. If you want, you can slog through all the comments (which I didn’t quite get …
The Economics of Sin
So, it is the Fourth of July. Eat your burgers and set off your squibs. Remember that we are not allowed to turn this into a lamentation commemoration until the president has us neck deep in five year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains, and they have to be at least as onerous …
Our Bedlamite Riot
A friend sent me this link to a demolition job of Radical Orthodoxy. This is the kind of scholarship that makes you want to say something like “push ’em back, push ’em back, waaaay back!” I am glad we still have scholars around who have the ability (and the olfactory tolerances) to sift through steaming …
Goodreads Dot Com
Over on the left, you should notice a cluster of book covers that links to a site called Goodreads, a social networking site that revolves around books and reading. I am still just learning the ropes, but know enough to recommend it highly. After I joined, I spent some time backloading a list of books …
A Few More Blurbs
A few more YouTube blurbs for the Desiring God conference are now up. You can find them here.
Four Causes
Book 3/Chapter 14 No supererogation (section 15) 1. What is the only kind of supererogation that Calvin allows? Two plagues (section 16) 1. What are the two plagues that we must banish from our minds? Four causes (section 17) 1. What are the four causes of our salvation? 2. What is not included in this …
Above and Beyond?
Book 3/Chapter 14 Hatred of externals only (section 8) 1. What does the Lord abominate? 2. What is man in his highest moral splendor? 3. What is the first foundation? True believers (section 9) 1. What happens in believers each day? 2. What are our best works mixed with? Just one sin (section 10) 1. …
Slow That Arrogant Greedhead Down
John Adams once said that our Constitution presupposes a moral and a religious people. It is wholly unfit, he said, for any other. One of the places where this undoubted truth is most obvious is when we enter the realm of economics — the place where many Christians refuse to bring the lordship of Christ …
Wretched Man/Romans 25
INTRODUCTION: We have seen that the apostle Paul continues to answer the question created by the gospel of grace. Gentiles are under sin. Jews are under sin. They are both under sin. God promised to remake the world through Abraham, and God did this by sending a final Adam. This glorious message can be twisted …
Different Categories of Men
Book 3/Chapter 14 Four classes (section 1) 1. What are the four classes of men outlined by Calvin? Virtues of pagans (section 2) 1. How does Calvin account for pagan virtues, where they exist? 2. Does he lump pagan vice and virtue all together? 3. What kind of blessing does God give such men? True …