Letter to the Editor: I must thank you for your work in Collision—your debates helped persuade a Hitchens fan into Christianity. Do you have any advice on learning how to initiate and handle ...
Letters As November Fades to Black
Grace Before the Fall
“Numerous Reformed theologians, from the Reformation down to the present, have seen God’s covenantal dealings with Adam as essentially gracious. It would be tedious to list them all, but I can if I need to.”
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Introduction: In the aftermath of our blowout holidays, it is not uncommon to survey something of a culinary debris field—half-finished pies, cold turkey, a measuring cup full of gravy, half ...
The Authority of Gratitude
Sermon Video Introduction: As we have all enjoyed the blessings of a Thanksgiving holiday just a few days ago, I thought it appropriate to spend some time on a little understood aspect of gratitude, ...
Hagar’s Sons
“There is the Abrahamic and the Sinaitic, clearly but what ws the form of the covenant here? Was it the covenant at Sinai as God actually made it, or was it the covenant of Sinai as construed by those who desired to be under the law (Gal. :21). The Judaizers, by their self-righteousness, transformed an historic manifestation of the covenant of grace into a contemporary covenant of works. This is why they were condemned. Elsewhere, Gordon tells us his rule of thumb for identifying Auburnites—anyone who speaks generally of ‘the covenant’ . . . The problem is that this would include the Westminster Confession, which plainly identifies the Synaptic covenant as a manifestation of the covenant of grace.”
Makes Good Sense to Me
A Thanksgiving Miscellany
A Thanksgiving Apologetic: Let us begin with the obvious. By definition, any sentient creature has one constant, solemn, unremitting duty, and that is the duty of gratitude. To be a creature is, in ...
Content Cluster Muster [11-23-23]
Situational Awareness: Open Road: More here: An Opportunity to Help: Some folks in a sister congregation of the CREC had their house burn to the ground. An opportunity to lend a hand is here. A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Last Friday at NSA: NSA Founder and Pastor @douglaswils delivering the "Don't Be …
True Gratitude Can Bend
True gratitude can bend beneath the weightOf graces given to the undeserving,Men stagger as they come to goodness lateAnd learn to walk, and with no conscious swerving.True gratitude can stand upon the graceThat comes from God and puts conceit well underThe blood that trickled down the wretched faceOf Jesus Christ, who came to put asunderThese …
The Genesis of the Affair
“This overlooks the little matter of a ‘may God have mercy on their souls’ judicial statement by the RPCUS, unimpeded by any discussion with the men concerned, which was then heaved by John Robbins, via the Internet, into the middle of the Reformed world, in much the same manner that a couple twelve-year-old boys might heave a dead cat over the fence into the middle of a ladies afternoon luncheon.”