I would like to thank Christianity Today again for their role in setting up my initial debate with Christopher Hitchens, and for their sponsorship of the most recent event where I got to interact with him. The video of that exchange at the Christian Book Expo can now be found here. Speaking of Christianity Today, …
More Cool Things to Look At
My wife and daughters do beautiful things. Below is a recent example from one of my daughters. You (yes, you) can participate by throwing yourself into what is going on here or here.
Idle Oaths
Book 2/Chapter 8 Idle oaths (section 25) 1. What renders God’s name cheap and common? 2. When men swear unnecessarily, what are they doing? Sermon on the Mount (section 26) 1. Who condemns all oaths whatever, and why? 2. Interpreting Christ’s words as forbidding all oaths whatever does what to the relationship between Jesus and …
To His Own Master/Palm Sunday 2009
INTRODUCTION: We have many times addressed how much we need to learn how to define our days in Christian terms. The salvation that Jesus Christ brought to the world was a public salvation. He was crucified in the public square, and His resurrection was not done in secret. Connected to this, we have to recognize …
Generational Judgment and Mercy
Book 2/Chapter 8 Visiting iniquity (section 19) 1. Does Calvin interpret the threat to “visit iniquity” to subsequent generations as a reference to temporal difficulties only? Justice and generational judgment (section 20) 1. Why did Ezekiel tell the people to stop using the proverb about the father eating grapes and the children’s teeth being set …
Qualifications or Requirements?
Just a few more brief comments, and we can move on. Thanks to Lane for his reply on Venema’s definition of soft paedocommunion. On 1 Cor. 10:17, my point is that it doesn’t matter how you translate it — the basic point remains the same. If the loaf is the body (KJV), then all who …
In Like a Lion, Out Like a Bear
I would take a photo out my window of the snow storm that is pounding us here, but enemies of the gospel of global cooling would think I had photoshopped it. This is a crisis. We clearly need to hand over unlimited power now to government bureaucrats and regulators, not to mention faceless international functionaries, …
The Refusal of Bread to Bread
Lane has responded to me here. Just a couple of things, and I am ready to move on to Venema’s next chapter. First, Lane has not yet responded to whether or not Venema would consider him a soft paedocommunionist. It seems to me that according to the definitions, that is the way it would have …
Bowing Before Images as Adultery
Book 2/Chapter 8 Out of bondage (section 15) 1. What does Calvin identify as one of the greatest crimes? 2. Why does God reveal Himself through certain particular titles? 3. What did Israel’s enslavement in Israel represent typologically? Authority (section 16) 1. What does the first commandment reveal about God’s authority? 2. What four things …
He Was Actually Four
In a post a week or so ago — the one on a dragon in your heart — I misstated the age of the boy who asked the elders if they had read Beowulf. He was four at the time, not two. Mea culpa . . .