I can’t stand it.
Talmudic Layers of Revivalism
In the footnotes of Waters’ book, Cal Beisner makes this statement. “The Westminster Standards present the sacraments solely as means of sanctifying grace, not as means of converting grace” (p. 302). In his response to my essay on sacramental efficacy in the Westminster Standards, Rick Phillips makes a similar point. “In reading Wilson’s paper I …
All We Need to Know
I have been following the outbreak of hostilities in Israel and Lebanon, but thus far have refrained from writing about it. On one level the subject is enormously complex and anything less than ten volumes, researched for twenty years, would fail to do the situation any kind of justice. At the same time, on another …
Faith As the True Mouth
At this Table, we are called to meet with God. We meet with Him according to His Word, knowing that apart from faith the only thing we can accomplish is a meeting with His displeasure. All that is accomplished at this Table for blessing is accomplished through the instrumentality of faith. And when unbelief comes …
Excuses and Forgiveness
We often confess our sins falsely. We think we are confessing them to God, but we are actually asking God to excuse them. We point to the extenuating circumstances and think that they make it possible for God to forgive us. But forgiveness is only available for that which is inexcusable. If what you did …
Superficial Education Reform
“Consequently, many Christians involved in modern Christian education need to adopt a more comprehensive vision for education. A Christian education is not a process that dabbles around the edges or tires to improve something in need of radical reformation through a simple rearrangement. We may have seen a stsudent who has a basic problem — …
A Significant Omission
“It is not much of an exaggeration to say that music, as an issue of political consequence, vanishes in the political philosophy of early modernity. The intellectual architects of modern liberalism do not acknowledge the public significance of music’s power over the soul” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics (Dallas: Spence Publishing, …
Theological Rabies
“So that, that sweet and moderate Melancthon, usually called the differences of divines rabies Theologorum, and at his death blessed himself, that among other sins and miseries he was to be free from this rabies or fury of divines . . .” (Durham, p. 243).
Making the Necessary Qualifications
One of the things that became obvious throughout this review of Waters’ book on the Federal Vision was the extraordinarily sloppy job done by Waters in representing my views fairly or accurately. Unfortunately, this pattern continues in the footnotes and bibliography. An astonishing ommission in the bibliography is the doctrinal examination I took before my …
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30. Violence and the Sacred/Girard/really good 31. Saving the Queen/Buckley/fun read