Introduction: For whatever reason, whenever anyone has chosen personal affluence and comfort as their pole star, by which they are resolved to conduct all their navigating, we should not be surprised ...
Resistance to Tyrants & Obedience to God
Book of the Month/February 2023
Many moons ago, I wrote an article for the magazine Antithesis, in which I argued that the Solemn League and Covenant had been broken and set aside by a disobedient people, but the covenant had not thereby evaporated. I was therefore exceedingly pleased to see that someone had written a small book that made the …
Concupiscence Is As Concupiscence Does
Introduction: Over the last few weeks, I noticed that a controversy had broken out on the web, which is nothing new. I regarded it as an unnecessary controversy, but I guess that is nothing new either. ...
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Book of the Month/January 2023
One of the things that separates Jews and Christians is that the Christians have seen the various messianic streams of the Old Testament as all coming together as fulfilled in Christ. In the understanding ...
So Did Adam and Eve Have to Get Remarried?
Introduction: We have had something of an uproar over Stephen Wolfe's book, as consistent readers of this blog know right well. Oh, you noticed? The commotion can be divided into two different ...
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Book of the Month/December 2022
From time to time I have confessed, or perhaps acknowledged would be a better word, and perhaps I am taking too long to come to the point, that I read dictionaries. I suppose you could categorize this as a guilty pleasure, but guilt is not really the right word. Sheepishness is more like it. Today’s …
Evangelical Spandex at the Gym
Introduction: Like other women, when church ladies don their spandex in order to go work out at the gym, they have to obtain that spandex first. But not many people know that (unlike other women) ...
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Book of the Month/November 2022
I am a day or so early with my book-of-the-month selection, which I am doing so as to not clutter up the first part of November next week. I hear other stuff is going to be happening then. For being early like this, I resolutely refuse to apologize. Let me tell you first how I …
Book of the Month/August 2022
Introduction: So the book I have selected for this month is the latest offering from Peter Zeihan entitled The End of the World is Just the Beginning. It is, in turns, exhilarating, encouraging, provocative, and horrifying. Even if you don’t buy his thesis wholesale, it remains a fascinating and informative read. This is his fourth …
A Statement on Roe by the Presiding Minister of the CREC
I am posting a CREC statement here on the overturning of Roe, a statement from our presiding minister of Council, Virgil Hurt. Statement on the Overturning of Roe v. Wade: Communion of Reformed Evangelical ChurchesPresiding Minister of Council Pastor Virgil Hurt July 2, 2022 The CREC thanks God for the overturning of Roe v. Wade by …