I need to make a brief announcement. Ahem. A day or two ago, Canon+ added some of Al Mohler’s content from a number of years ago, from back before the woke virus days. A firestorm of sorts broke out on Twitter, with one gentleman commenting on how much the times have changed. Al Mohler and …
Opening Statement for my Debate With James White
Resolved: Paedocommunion Consistently Expresses Christ’s Purposes in Giving Us the Sacraments: Thank you all for coming. It is great to be with you all. Thanks to NSA for the opportunity to discuss ...
Felix Maxima Culpa
One of the things that theologians have been discussing for centuries is the question of whether or not the incarnation would have happened anyway had mankind not fallen. Summed up, the question is incarnation ...
Theology Among the Deplorables
Preamble: That moment when you hear Rolling Stone wants to do a human interest story on the women of the CREC . . . When engaging with a subject like this one, I usually feel positively invited to limber up my keyboarding digits, and to then give way to some jolliment. But at the same …
Assuming the Center
Introduction: There is a phrase that I have used and referred to for quite a number of years now, and I believe that this would be a good time to return to an explanation of it again. That phrase is ...
Again, on Three
Introduction: When man aspires to become Deity, the nature of the folly is such that he does not start to close in on his goal. The demented vision is such that what starts happening is divergence, ...
Heidelfog
Introduction: So a gent named Brandon Adams recently tackled the whole Federal Vision thing as it relates to some of our Reformed Baptist friends. It is clear from how he writes that he means and intends well, and is trying hard to get it right, but unfortunately he is stymied in this admirable effort by …
When Smoke Prays/Psalm 102
Introduction: We have in this psalm a prayer offered up in the midst of desperate affliction. The afflicted are those who feel most in need of answered prayer. They are also those who feel like getting an answer is a true long shot. But affliction makes them eloquent anyhow, and it is the kind of …
Mere Hellfire
Introduction: The doctrine of eternal punishment is one that is widely known, or at least the broad outline of the doctrine is widely known. That is, if you were to ask the average person what “Hell” is, they would be able to reply that it was the purported place of punishment in the afterlife. And …
Defining the Categlories
Introduction: As a result of some of my recent “going on” about the nature of nature, I have been in conversation with some friends about miracles. One of them recommended the chapter on miracles in Vern Poythress’s book Symphonic Theology, (chapter 9), which I had read before (and enjoyed well enough). So I went back …