Book 2/Chapter 8 Natural law written (section 1) 1. What is the written moral law? 2. What does God reprove us for through the law? 3. Why is the written law necessary? Inexorable law (section 2) 1. When do we render God the reverence due to Him? 2. In what way is God always like …
The Third Use of the Law
Book 2/Chapter 7 The third use (section 12) 1. What is the third use of the law, according to Calvin? 2. Is this a minor use of the law? 3. How does the law help the believer? 4. Is this use dependent upon precept alone? Antinomianism (section 13) 1. What do certain ignorant persons do? …
The Giant Creeping Land Squid
Nate’s kids have an imagination too. Read more about it here.
Father of Us All/Romans 15
INTRODUCTION: We rightly refer to father Abraham. He is the central model for us from the pages of the Old Testament, living out the implications of radical faith, faith at the root. As we walk in imitation of him, we are his children indeed. As we walk in imitation of him, we have the family …
The Mirror of Law
Book 2/Chapter 7 Removing self-deception (section 6) 1. Without seeing ourselves in the mirror of God’s law, what happens to us? 2. When we stand on our own judgment, what do we tend to do? Reflective law (section 7) 1. The law is compared to what? 2. As we grow tired under the burden of …
Black Markets
He who names, wins. And one of the things that statists, tyrants and bullies like to do, when their regulations have shut virtually every productive thing down, is call the small remaining enclaves of free transactions “black markets.” Black markets, aye. And of course, there is a certain kind of Christian who, when Congress (in …
The Dragon in Your Heart
Green Baggins and I have agreed to blog through Cornelius Venema’s new book on paedocommunion entitled Children at the Lord’s Table? Lane has already posted his first response, and here is mine. In the first chapter, Venema begins with the right question. “On what basis should anyone be admitted to the Lord’s Table?” (p. 1). …
Uses of the Law
Book 2/Chapter 7 The meaning of law (section 1) 1. What does Calvin mean when he uses the word “law”? 2. What was the basic reason for giving the law? The end of the law (section 2) 1. What should we remember with regard to the Ten Commandments? 2. The righteousness taught by the commandments …
The Coming David
Book 2/Chapter 6 Always Christ (section 3) 1. When is Christ prefigured in the Old Testament? 2. In the Old Testament, on what did our redemption and eternal salvation depend? 3. The hope of all the godly has always reposed where? Faith in God alone is insufficient (section 4) 1. What will happen to someone’s …
More Than Usual About CT
I got back late the night before last from the Christian Book Expo in Dallas, where I was participating on a panel that included Christopher Hitchens. Christopher was in fine fettle, and the panel discussion was vigorous — that event should be up on the web at some point. I will point you there as …