On Loving the Standard: Sermon Video Introduction: The chances are pretty good that over the years you have heard me say something like this. You task as parents is not to get your kids to ...
A Teaser
“Those who hold that the covenant of works was not gracious must, of necessity, deny the imputation of the active obedience of Christ”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 795
Happened Before, Has It?
Content Cluster Muster [07-04-24]
Down With the House of Hanover!: Trippy: Good Stuff Right There: More here . . . A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Why, Yes: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Ekatarina Stutz Featured Product: She Shall Be Called Woman:This book is the third in a series of collected wedding homilies. You should get this one, but …
The Halfway Covenant
“What do you do? You have a baptized man and woman, professing faith in Jesus and in the truth of the Christian religion, who are living sober and decent lives, and w ho could join any Calvinist church in Europe. They want to have their child baptized. What do you do? The Halfway Covenant said okay, all right already.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 791
Stories Versus the Official Narratives
Introduction: As the average Christian parent watches the outside world devolve into an ever-increasing chaos and tumult, a very common question is "what can I do to prepare my kids for this ...
The Peak July Letters So Far
Letter to the Editor: Re: swapping Biden I could be mistaken, but I think there is a relatively simple path for swapping Biden. Because the primary process has commenced, and Biden has nearly ...
How Visible Is the Heart?
“If it is true that not every member of the visible church will be in glory, and it is true, then there must be a demarcation between those covenant members who are going to Heaven and those who are not. That demarcation is called heart conversion, or regeneration. All genuinely Reformed believers acknowledge the reality of this The practical, pastoral issue concerns whether that true heart conversion is measurable by human beings. Can we detect it in a certain enough way to be confident that we are letting only the regenerate come to the Table (or, in baptistic churches, to baptism), and are successfully keeping the ‘not known to be regenerate’ away from the Table?”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 790
Presidential Debates in a Late Stage Empire
So this is what it is like, I muse to myself. The Visigoths battered down the gates, came in to have a look around, didn’t think much of what they saw, and decided to head on home. I hear that Caligula made his horse a senator, and everybody thought it was hilarious. The civic souffle …
Book of the Month/July 2024
This book, The Unprotected Class, is a timely book, and marvelously executed. And far from being an instance of white backlash, following its sober analysis and prescriptions will be about the only way to head off the ugliness of such a reaction. In this book Jeremy Carl analyzes the results of our abandonment of the …