Book 3/Chapter 11 Forgiveness (section 21) 1. What is the righteousness of faith equated with? 2. What is such righteousness called, in a word? Scripture proofs (section 22) 1. What passages does Calvin cite in defense of this idea? 2. Augustine says what about the righteousness of the saints? Righteousness of another (section 23) 1. …
Quality Health Care Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun
The other day I saw the president fielding a question about his health care deform, and he said the kind of glib thing that appears to be all the rage these days. He said, in response to a question about his proposal putting private companies out of business, that he didn’t understand what the fuss …
Faith Working Through Love
Book 3/Chapter 11 Free gift (section 18) 1. What is Paul’s argument on faith and works in a nutshell? 2. How must we come in order to receive righteousness? Faith alone (section 19) 1. Does Calvin agree with Luther’s translation of Romans 3:28? 2. What evasion does Calvin then deal with? Faith working through love …
Black Douglas
The Desiring God folks have some video clips up promoting their national conference, and you can look at them here. The first is John Piper explaining, when he first had the thought of inviting me, why he didn’t lie down with a cold compress on his forehead until the feeling went away. In the second …
Faith Righteousness and Works Righteousness
Book 3/Chapter 11 Faith and works apart (section 13) 1. What error does Calvin address next? 2. A man who wishes to obtain Christ’s righteousness must do what? 3. As long as a particle of works righteousness remains, what else remains? Regenerate works (section 14) 1. What workaround to this did the Sophists come up …
A Colporter’s Version
This will be dated rather quickly, I suppose, but as I write these words, Nate’s Tilt-a-Whirl is ranked 1,247 at Amazon. If you get over there now for a little Christmas shopping, you can help push it into three digits. And when that happens, with certain potential shoppers now abed . . . Give me …
A Fat Roll of Twenties
I was speaking with a friend the other day about some of the economic muddles that our sorry republic is currently being pelted with, and he said something like, “But isn’t it true that our health care system is broken?” Well, yes and no. Big chunks of it, like Medicare, are not so much broken …
Lest Faith Totter
Book 3/Chapter 11 Assurance (section 11) 1. Does Osiander accept or reject justification as a legal term? 2. What happens if faith pays any attention to works? 3. What is the wonderful plan of salvation? Refutation of Osiander (section 12) 1. What is impossible, according to Osiander? 2. To what end does Osiander heap up …
The Atlantic Is Not a Theological Point
I would like to take a moment to tie up the various concerns expressed about my two recent MTW/PCA posts, and deal with them in a bundle. Some of them came up in the comments, and one set came in a very gracious letter of concern from a PCA friend. Here are some thoughts, in …
Two Lines/Romans 24
INTRODUCTION: We are now on the threshold of a vexed portion of the book of Romans. Christians have long divided over whether Paul is describing his pre-Christian life or his post-conversion life. Is the description of anguish in Romans 7 characteristic of the Christian life? Or is it a description of his experience prior to …