Yes, Please
The Decree Encompasses All
“The decree is not independent of means because is it a decree concerning those means.”
No Diluting Agent
“Moderns who are stuck with the language of Westminster want to say that we actually have to understand this as a sacramental union, with the word sacramental being understood as some sort of diluting agent. But I want to say it is a sacramental union, with union meaning union.”
Central Identity
“The Reformation began with a striking emphasis on the center of the covenant, which was Christ and Him crucified . . . The Reformers said you recognize a man by looking at his face, not the ends of his shoelaces, and if you want to recognize the Church, then you must look straight at her Head, who is Christ.”
Letters That Cover the Waterfront
Letter to the Editor: In Rev. 2:26–27, Christians are said to rule nations with a rod of iron, Psalm 2-style. If preterism is true (big "if"!! haha), what kind of ruling with an iron ...
A Defining Function
“At the end of history, the eschatological Church will be comprised of all the elect and none of the reprobate. The eschatological Church serves the same defining function as the invisible Church, but with one advantage. It is necessarily the same Church that we are members of now, it is a Church grounded in historical reality, and it does not tempt us to think in terms of a Hellenistic upper story and lower story.”
TheoFoes, TheoBros, and Mother Jones in TheoThroes
Introduction: "Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." William F. Buckley ...
More Than Meets the Eye
“The Church of yesterday is just as invisible as the heavenly Church. We lose the communion of the saints if we depend upon what we can see.”
And They’re So Creative . . .
Grace in the OT
“The Old Covenant is not the time in which God attempted to save His people through law, but, finding this to be a failure, decided to use grace and forgiveness in the New Covenant . . . the contrast in the New Testament is not between Old and New; the contrast is between Old distorted and Old fulfilled.”