Yes, Well, There’s Always That
Which Is Unpleasant
“Being prosecuted by sentimentalist pietists is like drowning in a cauldron of hot butterscotch”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 634
Content Cluster Muster [03-28-24]
Watchoo Lookin’ At?: A Modern Macedonian Call: “Come over . . . and help us.” Acts 16:9 Covenant Reformed Church (CRC) in Fairbanks, Alaska, became a CRECMission Church in August, 2015. The congregation has grown to 37covenanted members (12 households) with an average Sunday attendanceof 50 souls. Currently, the Session consists of two men from …
Nothing Ad-Libbed
“The problem with this is that synergism is frequently used by people who want God to do 90 percent, and we do the remaining 10. He carries one end of the heavy object, and we carry the other end. This is not a Calvinistic understanding at all. In Calvinistic synergy, God does one hundred percent, and I do the other one hundred percent. Shakespeare writes one hundred percent of Hamlet’s lines, and Hamlet speaks one hundred percent of Hamlet’s lines. The wrong kind of synergy has Shakespeare writing the plot of Hamlet’s life, with Hamlet ad-libbing his way through it.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 625
Prosperity Gospel, Deuteronomic Faith, and How Babies Come into It
Introduction: Let me go straight to the central question I want to address here. What is the difference between the prosperity gospel and the Deuteronomic blessings I like to talk about? And ...
Letter Writers Helping Out the Letter Readers
Letter to the Editor: Just a question, if I may. In a recent post entitled, "Classical Charter Schools as a Cut Flowers Display," You mention a quote from Peter Berger..."you should ...
Lig Duncan and that Infamous Clip Making the Rounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXnwKgzXy8o Introduction: I was going to be doing a bit of traveling, and so last week I wrote and recorded a few of my blog posts prior to departure. That was ...
Jews and the Measure You Use
Dear Gavin, I know that we have been talking primarily about whites and blacks, but I want to change the subject, moving over to the Jews for just a moment. This is only an apparent change of ...
Nate and Lindsey
According to the prayer book, there are various scriptural reasons why God instituted marriage among the children of men. God gave us marriage to help fend off and forestall sexual sin, and He also gave us marriage in order that He might obtain a godly seed, as Malachi puts it (Mal. 2:15). But the third …
Stand Still and See His Salvation
Palm Sunday 2024: Sermon Video Introduction: One of the things that happened in the medieval period was that the church calendar began to get cluttered up with numerous saints’ days and celebrations, ...