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About The Proprietor
Welcome to Blog & Mablog. The name is taken from the prophet Ezekiel (Eze. 38:14-16), who was referring to a bad dude named Gog (from Magog), and if you make a little pun, you have a cultural and theological blog that sweeps down from the north out of Russia in order to invade the land …
Stand By for Heavy Rolls . . .
. . . as we used to say in the Navy. Here’s the deal. I started bloggin in 2004, when the world was young and we were all full of idealistic fancies. Blog and Mablog also started out with a platform that was not going to be able hold all the verbal pig iron that …
You Can’t Put In What God Left Out
Every faithful Christian educator should want to know the truth, and not just the truth about ultimate things. A man can know the truth about Heaven and Hell, about the triune God, and about the vicarious death of Christ on the cross, and still not have the faintest idea about what he ought to be …
Maneuvering Room
The next chapter in Franke’s book is Chapter 8, “Scripture As the Word of God.” And technically, everything should be okay, because the words are all okay, but everything is so darn parsed, and I think I recognize maneuvering room when I see it. “The historic commitment of the church to the idea that Scripture …
Obeying God Rather Than Man
For those of you who have been following this series, this brings to a conclusion our series of study questions through Calvin’s Institutes. Congratulations. As my granddaughter Daphne would say, “I dood it.” Book 4/Chapter 20
Sunny Sea
We are very grateful to God for last night’s safe arrival of our 14th grandchild, Marisol Helen Wilson, a gift of God to Nate and Heather. She weighed in at 9 lb. 12 oz., and appears to like everybody.
Justin and Emily
Since the entrance of sin into our fallen world, we have a tendency to divide things that belong together, and to put together things that should be kept distinct. We blur what should be sharp, and we divide what should be blended. Although the creation of marriage antedates the entrance of sin, sin has entered …
The Crowning Gift
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the …
The Lesser Magistrates
Book 4/Chapter 20 The royal person (section 28) 1. Whom should we serve in the civil realm? 2. Why are there “many princes”? 3. What should we then do? God will vindicate (section 29) 1. What do we not examine? 2. Are we to be subject to men who are evil in character? 3. When …