Just one last post here, and I am caught up with Green Baggins. Look at me go. There are four basic issues to respond to in this post. The first is that Lane says, completely misunderstanding everything, that the “FV definition of the covenant” says that the “covenant of grace is undifferentiated between the elect …
What Do You Mean, Hermeneutic?
Here is my next installment in getting caught up with Green Baggins. I will not be trying to pick up the thread of discussion that was going on prior to this, but simply reply to some of Lane’s concerns expressed in this post. Lane says, “I really challenge the assertion that repentance and faith are …
The Invisible Church in Their Heads
I am just emerging from a busy season, and now have some time to get back to a promise I made to Lane over at Green Baggins. That promise was to finish our conversation, and so here I am. There were three posts of Lane’s, as I understand it, that were waiting for a reply …
A Couple Doctrinal Pathologies
One of the things we must come to understand is that the various theological and practical pathologies that afflict the Church today are very rarely new. There is nothing, Solomon taught us, new under the sun. A common error in conservative Protestant circles is the error of propositionalism. This is the error that holds that …
Louisiana Bearskinning
Here is an occasion for thanksgiving, along with a need for continued prayer. Yesterday, the Northwest Presbytery of the PCA approved a report finding Peter Leithart within the boundaries of the Westminster Confession. There was minority report that found differently, but the vote at presbytery was strongly in Peter’s favor. The need for continued prayer …
In the Sump Pump Hole
I am afraid Scott Clark continues not to know what he is talking about. In his most recent pronouncement, which you may read through here, he says quite a number of false things. But in order to observe some economy of effort, I want to concentrate briefly on three true things that he said. First, …
Reformed Catholicity
Our sister church here in Moscow (Trinity Reformed Church) adopted a superb statement on Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Reformed Catholicity. You can read it here.
Plenty of Room
The historic Reformed faith is a spacious mansion. We really need to stop living in the broom closet that some want to call true Calvinism. And it is possible to come out of the broom closet and not be in the process of leaving the house.
Pikestaff Texts
The global Anglican communion is blowing apart, as we speak. N.T. Wright is unhappy about it, as he ought to be, but unfortunately he analyzes the situation wrongly, almost from top to bottom. I wrote about this some years ago, as one who appreciates much of Wright’s scholarship. But I noted then that his anti-gnostic …
Our Reformed Fighter Jets
Just a quick answer to two points raised on Green Baggins. The first is a reply to Lane’s question, what do we mean by “hyper-specialized terminology in the regular teaching and preaching”? All technical vocabulary will be specialized, and there is no way to avoid it. I believe that trying to avoid it, especially in …