I hope you are getting antsy without getting too antsy. The film is made and distribution is being discussed in the proper quarters. If you go here, and look at the bottom of the page, there is a place to enter your email address so that you will get updates on the release date and …
Holy Days
This is a joint statement on holy days, approved by the sessions of Christ Church and Trinity Reformed Church here in Moscow. We believe that the people of God have been freed from all bondage to observing days, weeks, months, seasons or years (Gal. 4:9-11, Col. 2:16). Those Old Testament laws were shadows of Christ …
Calvin on Law and Gospel
Book 2/Chapter 9 A foretaste (section 1) 1. What did God attest through the Old Testament promises? 2. What did the teaching and ceremonies of the Old Testament point to? 3. Did this make this teaching valueless to the prophets themselves? Two senses of gospel (section 2) 1. What does the word gospel taken in …
The Day He Left Off Preaching and Took to Meddling
“The preacher who stands before his people and roundly denounces the sins of others, and yet fails to confront his hearers with their own greed, lust, hard-heartedness, and pride, is not bold, no matter how loudly he may thunder. It is relatively easy for a preacher to let fly the salvos of Scripture against the …
Why Addiction Isn’t Really
“In other words, the establishment of an addiction requires a certain discipline or determination. It is not something that creeps up on your unnoticed or unannounced or all unawares. As a moment’s reflection would suggest to anyone not blinded by self-interest, this fact has important and profound implications for the very concept of treatment, which …
Another Part of the Tangle
“When a little girl is not getting the attention from her father that she needs, she remains hungry for male attention and she will seek it elsewhere. Now when a little girl does this with someone she does not know, she is usually a pain in the neck. But what happens when this young girl, …
Every Sin Deadly
Book 2/Chapter 8 Real commandments (section 57) 1. How was the command to love our enemies diluted by some? 2. What early church fathers did Calvin appeal to in rejecting this? Mortal and venial sins (section 58) 1. What is the definition of venial sin that Calvin works with? 2. But how do these sins …
The End of the World Is History/Easter 2009
INTRODUCTION: We too often hold to the great truths of the resurrection of Jesus in a piecemeal fashion. We gather a bit here and a bit there, and the assemblage is generally orthodox. But this approach has resulted in some unfortunate gaps. The Lord is risen. He is risen indeed. But what does this mean …
A Very Brief Summary
By “emergent,” I do not refer to those who have fallen away from the faith entirely. We have always had apostates. By emergent I mean those who want to retain some kind of recognizable connection to the evangelical movement, but who want to do the hep cat thing. The emergents are kids from the junior …
The Sum of the Law
Book 2/Chapter 8 The sum of the law (section 51) 1. What is the purpose of the whole law? 2. What is a mistake to believe concerning the law? The second table (section 52) 1. Why is the keeping of the law sometimes summarized in the second table only? 2. What are the two indicators …