This morning, we will have an ordination of Douglas Jones to the ministry, right after our reading of Scripture. Doug has been an elder in our church for many years, and so this ordination calls for a little explanation. Our local church polity follows the pattern of Calvin’s Geneva, and is called the “four-office view.” …
Down in our Hearts!
This is a comment I made over at Green Baggins: And I claim no special knowledge of things BCO. What I do claim to know is that Steve Wilkins is a minister in good standing in the PCA, and hence his bad standing in the PCA cannot justly be used against Louisiana Presbytery. That doesn’t …
As Presbyterian As Britney Spears
I tried to make this point in the comments section over at Green Baggins, but it got lost somewhere in cyberville. So I’ll just amplify it, and make the point here. There is a very deft move being made in the strategy against Louisiana Presbytery, and I would like everyone to be looking at it …
Instead of Running Away from Barth
This looks really interesting. It appears that our Reformed brethren based in the UK didn’t get the same internecine fraticide memo that we all did over here. Although I am sure someone over there will write and let me know about something going on. Anyhow, I look forward to the day when the different strands …
The Other Side of the Needle
This is one of the most famous incidents in the Bible, if only because of the memorable nature of Christ’s comment about the camel and needle. But there are depths in this passage which we must carefully consider. “And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, …
A Terrible Broadsword
“A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 8).
The Poor Are a Gold Mine
“Indeed, homelessness is the source of employment for not negligible numbers of the middle classes. The poor, wrote a sixteenth-century German bishop, are a gold mine; and so, it turns out, are the homeless. For example, in one hostel for the homeless that I visited, located in a rather grand but disused and deconsecrated Victorian …
Good-Humored Berserker Bagpiper
Around the time of our city election a week or so ago, you may recall that the news broke that a list of Christ Church businesses was being circulated for purposes of boycotting them. There has been some fallout from all that which you might be interested in. This is not everything that happened, but …
Limbo Off To Limbo?
Check out Tim Bayly on how Rome is positioning itself to send Limbo off to Limbo. Right near the end of this fun article, Tim asks this question of the FV: Remembering that the Federal Vision is “all about the children,” I’d like to see F-V proponents critically engage the Commission’s report. For instance, would …