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Letters That Arrived Later Than Previous Ones
Sole Instrument
“Faith is the sole instrument by which a person may receive the blessing of Christ’s righteousness imputed to him. Now when we say ‘sole instrument’ we do not mean that no other instruments are involved, but that no other instruments are involved in the way that faith is . . . the only instrumental cause of justification that leaves no remainder is faith.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 799-800
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?
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 …
The Limits of Confessional Goodness
“I am bound confessionally to the Westminster Confession, and I think that is one of the coolest things in the world. My attitude is not slavish, for I have taken a few exceptions here and there, which proves that I did not drink the KoolAid. At the same time, I have been accused of ‘striking at the vitals’ of the Reformed faith. Wherefore and hownow? It is because I think there is life outside the confession. It is because I believe there is life in the Bible outside the confession. The fact that Westminster is an accurate summary of the doctrines of our holy faith does not make it an exhaustive summary of everything biblical, soup to nuts. And it doe not mean that the fine theologians behind that document ever thought about some of the modern heresies that rampage through the halls of our seminaries.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 788-789