The next chapter is up, and some of the threads start to come together.
True Communion of Saints
Every Lord’s Day, we confess that we believe in the communion of saints. This precious doctrine means that Christ’s Church is genuinely and really one, and that when we gather in worship, we are gathering together with all true saints everywhere, and we are doing so in the heavenly places, as we assemble in the …
The Father and Fat Souls
God is our Father, and one of the things that fathers are called to do is provide. “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it” (Prov. 10:22). Now this meal is the blessing of the Lord—we are told explicitly that the cup is the cup of blessing. Now …
Back from Houston Now
We just had a glorious time at CREC Council this year in Houston. The way our polity is structured, presbyteries meet once a year for business (they may meet more frequently for fellowship and singing), and the Council meets every third year. On those third years, the Council and presbyteries meet in the same place …
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The “No Unwanted Child Left Alive” Act
Obama has said that the abortion question is “above his pay grade.” What is actually the case is that simple honesty on the issue is above his pay grade. I recommend this article to you, along with Al Mohler’s interaction with the author, Robert George. HT: Justin Taylor And speaking of being out of your …
The Reformation Was Personal
Last post on this topic we looked at the central doctrines of the Reformation. Here I hope to identify some of the central characters of the Reformation, and to fix some of the key dates in this great period of the church’s history. Because of the Incarnation, all doctrinal issues are ultimately personal in an …
On Being Able to Find Where I Put Things
And for some more fun news, in addition to all the Canon titles that Logos Bible Software has picked up, they now have a package available for a number of my books. Just the other day someone here at presbytery asked where I had written on a particular something, and I knew that I had, …
How I Got a Hitch in my Getalong
Well, I have to say that I am pretty pleased about this. Here is a brief itinerary for a short book tour and debate that I will be conducting along with Christopher Hitchens. This is still pretty general, and I will follow it up with more details as I get them. On October 29, we …
Gotta Be the Right Kind of Nothing
A very fine minister with silver hair was walking through the sanctuary of his church one day, and, as it happened, the sun was shining through one of the stained glass windows, and hit the altar just perfectly. He was overwhelmed with a sense of his own unworthiness, and so he ran down to the …