Letter to the Editor: In your Invitation to Child Communion, you sure use a lot of words to rationalize a practice with no scriptural warrant. Paedos confuse physical and spiritual birth ...
Letters in the Midst of Dobbs Celebration Month
Wiring It Right
“A minister is like a licensed electrician. He has to wire the room so that the lights work. But a child can flip on the lights. I want high standards for the theological electricians because this is the house of the Lord, and don’t want it to burn down. I want low standards (work with me here) for the people who live in the house. I want every three-year-old with curious fingers, and a rudimentary knowledge of cause and effect, to able to reach that light switch.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 765
A Warm Invitation to Child Communion
Dear Darrel, Thanks for your letter, and for the pointed questions about child communion. Please thank your session for me as well. It is rare to find the combination of attributes that I see in your ...
A Polarizing Invitation
As many of you know, David French was going to speak on a panel at the PCA's General Assembly on the problem of polarization in the evangelical church. There was an uproar because French is pretty ...
Why We Worship the Way We Do
Sermon Video Introduction: The apostle Paul wanted to sing in the Spirit, but wanted to sing with the mind also (1 Cor. 14:15). In a similar way, we come here week after week to worship God in ...
Too Broad, Too Narrow
“The latitudinarians receive as Christ’s those who are manifestly not Christ’s and the sectarians reject those who manifestly are.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 764
Nice and Easy
Who Is the Father Here?
“Regeneration cannot be understood apart from the doctrine of generation. And if a person is of their father the devil, that is their problem of generation, which can only be addressed by means of a glorious regeneration.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 761
Content Cluster Muster [06-06-24]
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The Number of Chicken Bones is Irrelevant
“I have gone through enough theological paradigm shifts to know when it is happening. I used to be Arminian, and now am Calvinist. I used to be baptistic and now am paedobaptistic. I used to be premill and now am postmill. I have learned to recognize it when the scenery changes outside the car window. But I was brought up as an evangelical Christian, I am an evangelical now, and if the doctrine of perseverance is what I take it to be, I will die an evangelical. Bottom line, this means that I hold that a man must be born again, must be given a new heart, in order to see the kingdom of heaven. I don’t care how many chicken bones the priest threw in the air at his baptism. If he is not converted to God in his heart by the glorious gift of the Spirit, then he is going to Hell.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 760