“Obedience was required of Adam, but it was required in the context of grace. For a groom to turn to his bride right after the ‘you may kiss the bride’ part, jab. his palm with his forefinger and demand fidelity from her now would be grotesque. But to say this, as I do, doesn’t mean that I believe that her fidelity is somehow optional.”
Christian Nationalism: The Movie
Introduction: This was inevitable, I suppose. Rob Reiner financed and produced a movie called God & Country, a movie to warn us all about the impending threat called Christian nationalism. This somehow constituted a compelling invitation to erstwhile conservatives like David French and Russell Moore to clamber on board in order to help the secularists …
WIde of the Mark
[Response to Mid-America Reformed Seminary’s “Doctrinal Testimony Regarding Recent Errors”]
“The others on the list participate in overt misrepresentation, with varying degrees of high-handedness. The degrees of misrepresentation range from mild to jaw-dripping. This was an unbelievably shoddy bit of scholarship. This was atrocious. This was violation of the ninth commandment with a chainsaw.”
Do Your Christmas Shopping After You Post the Letter
Letter to the Editor: I think I was able to follow your argument in "Living faith has no side hustles." Justifying faith is alive from the moment God gives it as a gift. It rests on ...
The Ground of My Reluctance to Denounce Others
“In this controversy, multiple accusations have been entirely unreliable. I know this to be the case with regard to many aspects of my own teaching. Why should I drop everything and condemn my friends simply because they have been accused by the same unreliable people?”
Justifying Faith Has No Side Hustles
Introduction: Tom Hicks and Garrett Walden recently fired up their keyboards in order to interact with "the Moscow doctrine" on justification. Their article can be found here. The point of the article ...
As Prophet Bards Foretold 2
Virgin Born: Sermon Video Introduction: Scripture is quite clear that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. But what was the point? Why is this important? The Text: “Now all this ...
All of Grace
“I believe that the law is not found in one part of the Bible and the gospel in another. The whole thing is law and the whole thing is gospel. So I reject a law/gospel hermeneutic, but I do not reject a law/gospel application in the lives of men by the Holy Spirit. For a man in rebellion, everything about the Bible convicts, including the gospel. The message of the cross is the stench of death to those who are perishing. For a man forgiven, the whole thing is good news—even the preamble of the Ten Commandments is a promise of gospel. God is the one who brought us up out of the land of bondage.”
As They Sometimes Do
Content Cluster Muster [12-07-23]
Oops: Life got busy and I forgot to do this week’s Content Cluster. It was dark. They were big. Everything happened so fast. I forgot. Aliens kidnapped me, what year is it? The dog ate my draft. Leave me alone.