“I hold that faith was required, and it has always been the characteristic of true faith that it obeys. The only route to the work of obedience required in the garden (staying away from the tree) was to trust God, believing Him. True faith and works of obedience are never in opposition.”
God Gracious, All the Time
“Obedience was required of Adam, but it was required in the context of grace. For a groom to turn to his bride right after the ‘you may kiss the bride’ part, jab. his palm with his forefinger and demand fidelity from her now would be grotesque. But to say this, as I do, doesn’t mean that I believe that her fidelity is somehow optional.”
Christian Nationalism: The Movie
Introduction: This was inevitable, I suppose. Rob Reiner financed and produced a movie called God & Country, a movie to warn us all about the impending threat called Christian nationalism. This somehow constituted a compelling invitation to erstwhile conservatives like David French and Russell Moore to clamber on board in order to help the secularists …
WIde of the Mark
[Response to Mid-America Reformed Seminary’s “Doctrinal Testimony Regarding Recent Errors”]
“The others on the list participate in overt misrepresentation, with varying degrees of high-handedness. The degrees of misrepresentation range from mild to jaw-dripping. This was an unbelievably shoddy bit of scholarship. This was atrocious. This was violation of the ninth commandment with a chainsaw.”
Do Your Christmas Shopping After You Post the Letter
Letter to the Editor: I think I was able to follow your argument in "Living faith has no side hustles." Justifying faith is alive from the moment God gives it as a gift. It rests on ...
The Ground of My Reluctance to Denounce Others
“In this controversy, multiple accusations have been entirely unreliable. I know this to be the case with regard to many aspects of my own teaching. Why should I drop everything and condemn my friends simply because they have been accused by the same unreliable people?”
All of Grace
“I believe that the law is not found in one part of the Bible and the gospel in another. The whole thing is law and the whole thing is gospel. So I reject a law/gospel hermeneutic, but I do not reject a law/gospel application in the lives of men by the Holy Spirit. For a man in rebellion, everything about the Bible convicts, including the gospel. The message of the cross is the stench of death to those who are perishing. For a man forgiven, the whole thing is good news—even the preamble of the Ten Commandments is a promise of gospel. God is the one who brought us up out of the land of bondage.”
As They Sometimes Do
A Seven-Point Calvinist
“Some have interpreted the FV as thought it were some form of Arminianism or semi-Pelagianism. So early in the book [RINE], I set aside a chapter to demonstrate that I wish that the Synod of Dort had promulgated a couple extra points so I could believe them too.”
NQN Game Film 2023
Introduction: It has become our custom—and why shouldn't it have become our custom?—to review the month of November once we turn the page of the calendar, and all the pieces have fallen out ...