Theology That Bites Back
[Regarding WSC #91 & WLC #161] “We are talking about the baptized regenerate. The blessing of Christ, and the working of the Spirit, enable someone who receives the sacrament in true evangelical faith to rightly consider those sacraments to be numbered among the effectual means of their salvation.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 466
Letter to the Editor: Re the article "The Joy Juice of Democracy" Nov 6, 2023, and other work on Christian nationalism—I get the sense that you believe multi-ethnic/racial partnership in ...
“Remember that the whole imbroglio started with a Morecraftian heresy trial on the cheap, and a ‘may God have mercy on their souls’ dismissal of us, followed thereafter by a massive internet slander campaign. Someone gave a signal, and one portion of the Reformed world began heaving tin cans, bottles, dead cats, mature vegetables, and old boots at another portion of the Reformed world. ‘Heretics! Deniers of the gospel! False teachers!’ Then halfway through the barrage, another signal was given and in the lull that followed, another argument was thoughtfully advanced. ‘Gee, why are you guys so defensive?’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 465
Introduction: I think it is safe to say that many Christians have extricated themselves from the materialistic account of the cosmos. This is great, so far as it goes, but we have now entered an era ...
Sermon Video Introduction: This psalm overlaps a good deal with what David prayed in Psalm 18, as well as in 2 Samuel 22, near the end of his life. His life had been one long series of battles ...
“Sometimes I feel like a speaker at a Fourth of July picnic who gets himself accused of being un-American because I mentioned that ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights’”
“In conservative American Presbyterianism, the governing doctrine is not the Westminster Confession, but is rather the agreed-upon consensus of what the Westminster Confess must have meant.”
“The cup is described as the cup of blessing, not the cup of blessings and curses. But, because certain Corinthians despised that blessing, many were sick and some had died. Huzzah died because he got too close to the mercy seat”
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