I don’t swear by Logos Bible Software, because I am pretty sure that would be a sin. But I do use it, and am regularly blessed by it. The most recent blessing was this nugget found just a moment ago in Cornelius Van Til’s booklet on common grace — “the most basic fact of all …
The Spiritual Drive Train
This might be the medieval equivalent of an urban legend, I don’t know. I read it somewhere, but can’t recall the source, but here goes anyhow. Somebody, Thomas Aquinas maybe, was being shown around some opulent palace by the pope. “You see, Thomas, no longer can Peter say ‘silver and gold have I none.'” To …
Elegant and Spartan
A worthy meditation on literary Calvinism over at griddle-fresh Credenda.
A Settled Sacramental Principle
Book 4/Chapter 14 A settled principle (section 17) 1. What should be a settled principle with regard to sacraments? 2. Under what conditions are sacraments spiritually useless? 3. Is God present in the institution? 4. How do sacraments work? Sacraments in a wider sense (section 18) 1. In the history of God’s people, what are …
Director Notes
Darren Doane talks about Collision with Veritas Press.
Whacking Us Good
I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that the House of Representatives now has before it that Humongoid Health Bill, and there is a prospect of that thing actually passing, and so the time has come for us to consider the possibility that God is trying to whack us …
Swallowing in the Heart
We worship and serve Christ, who is the Incarnation of the God of all grace. We come to partake of Him here, and this means that we come to be partakers of His grace. Now this table is all grace. The cup is a cup of blessing, and the bread is the bread of life. …
A Brief Theology of Two Services
As you no doubt know, you are worshiping God this morning in one of two services. Thinking about this, and as you discussed with your families which one you would attend, it would be easy to reduce the whole question to a matter of logistics. We don’t really have room to fit everyone conveniently into …
National Sins Like Scarlet
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father over all creation, we look to You as the God …
As Though the Gospel Had Cooties
I think it would be appropriate to ask you to consider this post as a combination of testimony, confession, record of theological emergence, and story, as in, the rest of the story. Well, actually some of the rest of the story. Not surprisingly, many of the milestones in my life are most easily marked by …