The fact that I am talking with our brothers from Mid-America does not mean that we should not continue to pursue the issues before us. And because this thing continues to erupt in public, we have to deal with it in public. As God gives opportunity we can have some “behind-closed-doors” discussions with the zookeeper. …
More on MARS
Just so that you all know, I had a phone conversation this morning with Alan Strange, Nelson Kloosterman and Mark Vander Hart, all faculty members at MARS. While we did not come to any agreement, we began and closed with prayer, had a cordial and frank exchange of views, and we intend to do it …
Testimony on the MARS Testimony
The official testimony of the Mid-America Reformed Seminary has a digest of errors. I stated in an earlier post that I could join with them in rejecting about 43 of their list of 45. But the reasons for this vary. In some cases, it was because I agreed with them in rejecting the errors of …
Hear Me Quickly, Lord
Minister: Lift up your hearts!Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Hear my prayer, O Lord,    Give ear to what I say.In Your faithfulness, answer me now,    And in Your righteousness,    Hear my request. Do not enter into judgment with me,    For in Your sight,    We all are condemned. An enemy attacks my soul,    …
Prayers and Exhortation
Many of you have heard that there was a sniper shooting late last night and early this morning at the Presbyterian Church here in Moscow. We don’t know many details, but our thoughts and prayers are of course with the victims, and with their families. We also pray for the congregation at the Presbyterian Church, …
Theologians Are From MARS
I just now finished looking over a statement from Mid-America Reformed Seminary — “Doctrinal Testimony Regarding Recent Errors.” What a dog’s breakfast. The testimony is suitably coy and nebulous about exactly who the particular error-mongers might be, but they do refer darkly to “the present controversies,” “contemporary discussion,” “current climate,” “theological errors,” and whatnot. The …
Some Ancient Property Law
And now, the eighth commandment. How we respect God’s house is directly related to godly stewardship of what we have in our possession, and is the basis for biblical respect for our neighbor’s goods. Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee . . . (Deuteronomy …
Mangle Tangle
I recently accepted an apology from Sean Lucas over a review he had written of “Reformed” Is Not Enough a few years ago. He did not apologize for what he had written, but rather for the way in which he had written — he apologized for the tone. I am not taking any of my …
The Glory of Modesty (1 Timothy 2:8-15)
INTRODUCTION: We come now to a passage that has suffered much at the hands of expositors. I have no desire to take my turn at this, but the reason the passage has suffered is not because it is one of those parts of the apostle Paul’s writing that is hard to understand. The passage has …
A Stacked Committee?
Sean Lucas has apologized to me for the tone of something he wrote about me a few years ago. He did this publicly on his blog (here), and given the widespread attention this whole thing has received, I thought it would be good to extend forgiveness in a public way as well, which I am …