Reformed Is A Confession More Than A Culture
These arguments often come down to definitions. If we define culture as the sum of a series of factors including language, a web of relationships (family, community), that shapes the way we think about...
View ArticleReformed And Pentecostal?
In view of the controversy over the recent Strange Fire conference up the road, it seemed like a good time to re-post this HB classic from 2008. § James K. A. Smith has an interesting post at CT:...
View ArticleOffice Hours: Mike Horton On Sanctification And Justification
The core question of the Reformation was this: how can a sinner be right with God? The medieval church had concluded that he cannot, that, before God can accept someone, a person must be entirely...
View Article“Did God Leave Me When I Went To Seminary?”
Ryan at Sola Gratia raises a question that many first-semester seminary students ask. In essence the question is this: Before I came to seminary I had an active devotional life and a vital, immediate,...
View ArticleThe Importance of Being More Than Earnest
Doctrine. Theology. For many evangelicals these words are as pleasant as the phrase, “impacted tooth!” That theology is irrelevant to Christian life has essentially become a received dogma....
View ArticleOf King Cakes And Christian Liberty
Lost amid the ashes and sausages, King cakes and shrove pancakes — can’t forget about the pancakes — is Zwingli’s deeper concern about the nature of Christian sanctification. As a cradle Catholic who’s...
View ArticleSecularization Interrupted
it was becoming increasingly clear that at least on the street, the the veneer of Christianity was peeling away to reveal a canvas of various native (pre-Christian) folk paganisms. As Cambridge...
View ArticleOffice Hours: The Role Of Prayer In The Work Of Sanctification
Scripture teaches us that prayer is essential for sanctification. In 1Thessalonians 5:16-17 Paul says simply, “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-17, ESV). He doesn’t...
View ArticleCalvin’s Prayer For Sanctification
Grant, Almighty God, that as thou dost train us up with so much diligence and assiduous care, and regard us as dear and precious like an hereditary vine, – O grant, that we may not bring forth wild...
View ArticleBetween Hagiography And Cynicism
Telling the truth about the past is more difficult than it might seem but we can appreciate the difficulties by reflecting for just a moment on the controversy in Ferguson, Missouri. It’s a...
View ArticleSentiment Is Not A Sacrament
Holidays are a time for great sentiment, which the Oxford American Dictionary defines, in this usage, as an “exaggerated and self-indulgent feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.” Who does not...
View ArticleAvoid Strange Teaching, Endless Genealogies, Speculation, And Self- Appointed...
As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any strange doctrine, who hold useless speculations, nor to pay attention to myths...
View ArticleThe Old English Puritan
One of the great academic questions surrounding British Reformed theology is the definition of “Puritan.” Some scholars have despaired of being able to define it and its use is highly problematic. It...
View ArticleReformed and Pentecostal?
James K. A. Smith has an interesting post at CT: Teaching a Calvinist to Dance. In this post he says he longs for a “a kind of ‘Pentecostalized’ Reformed spirituality.” He goes on to link his quest...
View ArticleTurretin Summarizes the Reformed Faith
Thanks to David for posting Turretin’s brilliant summary
View ArticleRecovering the Reformed Confession: The Interview
Thanks to Camden Bucey, Nick Batzig, Jim Cassidy, and Jeff Waddington of Christ the Center (Castle Church) for inviting me to play with them on the most recent CTC podcast to discuss the forthcoming...
View ArticleAre Reformed "Evangelical" or "Evangelicals"?
Lee Irons raises the question of the relations between Reformed Christians and American evangelicals. John Fonville weighs in here raising additional questions in response to my post about defining the...
View ArticleDid God Leave Me When I Enrolled in Seminary?
Ryan at Sola Gratia raises questions that many first-semester seminary students ask. In essence the question/problem is this: Before I came to seminary I had an active devotional life and a vital,...
View ArticleAudio: Mike Horton on 1 Cor 11:17-34 and What the Supper is and Isn't
Great stuff from the weekly faculty chapel at WSC. You can subscribe for free here.
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