Book 4/Chapter 18 Sacrilege (section 1) 1. Is the sacrifice of the Mass a profanation of the Supper? 2. Why is it this? 3. What does this do to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross? The immortal priest (section 2) 1. What does the immortality of Christ mean? 2. What do men on earth, …
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Partaking in Both Kinds
Book 4/Chapter 17 Frequent celebration (section 44) 1. What was the unvarying rule for the ancient church? Not a spectator event (section 45) 1. What two early fathers objected strongly to the practice of coming to church and not partaking of the Supper? Annual partaking (section 46) 1. What does Calvin call the custom of …
Thinking About An Earlier Commandment
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At Least Weekly
Book 4/Chapter 17 Worthy partaking (section 41) 1. How did the Romanists interpret worthy participation? 2. What did Calvin think that would mean for us? Faith and love (section 42) 1. How did the Roman approach deprive sinners? 2. What does worthy participation consist of chiefly? Trifles (section 43) 1. What sorts of issues does …
The Number of Chicken Bones is Irrelevant
Some have been wondering what I am up to in this recent jag about the absolute necessity of the new birth, and some are happily wondering if at last I have come to my senses and am returning to my evangelical roots. Well, I would be happy to return to them had I ever left …
Sold Down the River
This post on chapter five of Franke’s book will be a little, short one. That is because this chapter was unexceptional in itself, and said many good, wholesome things. It was on “Jesus, Truth, and the Trinity,” and said many things familiar to every orthodox Christian — ultimate truth is a Person (p. 43), truth …
The Grace of Imitation
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the …
Lobbying for Vanilla Bleh
I recently received a good set of questions about Christian political activism from a gentlemen I met at the Desiring God conference, a man engaged in the noble work of Christian activism. Since the questions have broad relevance for many others, I thought it would be good to attempt to set forth my answers here, …
Unity in the One Loaf
Book 4/Chapter 17 Superstition (section 37) 1. Once it has passed the bounds, what does superstition do? 2. Why should we not adore that concerning which Jesus said, “This is my body”? Mutual love (section 38) 1. How does bread represent unity? 2. When we disagree with our brother, what are we doing? 3. When …