The Right Word at the Right Time

“As I have maintained, clearly I do not want to substitute biblical language in for confessional language. I want confessional language, believing it to be necessary and edifying in its place. What I object to is the restriction that has been placed on using biblical language ever. So the question is not whether we use biblical language or confessional language. The issue is when we are to use each, because we must use each.”

The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 758

So It All Works Out

“Signs signify. Seals do more than that. When we say that baptism is a sign and seal of the covenant, we are saying more than that baptist is a ‘sign and another kind of sign’ . . . The grace signified (sign) by their baptism is really exhibited and conferred (sealed) at God’s appointed time, in the power of the Spirit. This is not a place where I have to take an exception to Westminster. I would be happy to do so and have taken an exception to the Westminster Confession at other places. But I don’t have to do so here. Their position is mine.”

The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 755

Virgil Cain is the Name and I Drove on Ventura Highway

You are cordially invited to something. “What?” you may well ask. Tomorrow night, at 7 pm, at the NuArt Theater in Moscow, the notorious Dad’s Band is putting on their annual tribute to the quirky and the classic. There will be seventeen songs in all, ranging from Ventura Highway to Pick Up the Pieces, and …