I wanted to promote something said by my friend Frank Turk in the comments section of a previous post. Frank is one of those baptists, and, as such, he sees the intramural presbyterian dust-up much more clearly than some of the participants do. Here is Frank, with one of the best observations that this whole …
Sinner With a Backbone
This is a striking psalm, and is listed among the penitential psalms. It begins with virtually the same words as Psalm 6, the first of the penitential psalms. But the repentance shown by David here is quite distinct from what many Christians call repentance, and this is something we really need to deal with. The …
And the Name of the Disease is Sin
“The symptoms may vary tremendously from case to case, but the business of the preacher is not to medicate symptoms, it is to to treat the disease” (Lloyd-Jones, Preachers and Preaching, p. 134).
The Pope’s Easter Hat
Scott Clark has had some more to say, and he says it here. As part of his conclusion, he says: So, let the covenantal moralists, the New Perspectivists, and Federal Visionists (and related folks) have their semi-Pelagian grace and cooperation with grace system. If they want to try to stand, on the basis of grace …
Can’t Even Find the Stump
One of the temptations that the righteous have to deal with is the temptation of envying the unrighteous. This is a psalm to set that temptation in its proper context, and so to help us deal with it. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they …
Against the Faith as an Ism
Just a reminder about our upcoming ministerial conference. The deadline for early registrations is September 21.
Tell Us What You Really Think, Martyn
“Lastly, and only lastly, Homiletics. This to me is almost an abomination. There are books bearing such titles as The Craft of Sermon Construction, and The Craft of Sermon Illustration. That is, to me, prostitution. Homiletics just comes in, but no more. What about preaching as such, the act of preaching of which I have …
FV Critics and Grad School
Critical thinking skills are essential in reading comprehension. Someone has done us a valuable service here in applying this truth to the FV debate. Take a look.
What Happens When You Stop
The apostle Paul exhorts us to do all things “without murmuring or disputing.” The result, he says, will be that we will be blameless and harmless, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, “among whom ye shine as lights in the world.” How do obedient Christians stand out? This is one …
The Christian Future of Great Britain
It is no secret to readers of this blog that I am postmill in my eschatological convictions. It is also no secret that I am something of a cultural critic — things all around us, at least according to me, seem to be falling apart. This apparent dichotomy used to bug me too — back …