To Lady Kenmure On the Eve of Banishment to Aberdeen
Noble and Elect Lady,
That honor that I have prayed for these sixteen years, with submission to my Lord’s will, my kind Lord has now bestowed upon me, even to suffer for my royal and princely King Jesus, and for His kingly crown, and [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Eschatology, Ethics, Hermeneutics, Pilgrim Praxis, Richard Gaffin, Sola Ecclesia, Soteriology, Worship, tagged Sabbath on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In a world full of hurt we need to be reminded often of our hope. Such is the purpose of the weekly Sabbath rest lived by God’s people. Professor Gaffin explains:
We obscure the meaning of the Lord’s Day if we detach it from the other six days of the week. The weekly cycle—which structures human [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, Daryl Hart, Ecclesiology, Evangelicalism, Historical Theology, Pilgrim Praxis, Sola Ecclesia, Systematic Theology, Worship, tagged Calvinism, liturgy, Reformed on January 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Father God; Mother Church?
Daryl Hart’s provocative and penetrating collection of essays, Recovering Mother Kirk, is a profound read; it invites Christians into a way of life that at first sounds like an oxymoron (21-40) and secondly sounds like an evangelical swear word: high-church Calvinism.
Hart reaches out to evangelicals who, having grown fed up with the [...]
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Posted in Biblical Studies, Ecclesiology, John, John 17, Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, New Testament, Sacra Scriptura, Semper Reformanda, Sola Ecclesia, tagged prayer, Reformed on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
The November edition of the OPC’s New Horizons has a helpful exhortation to Gospel unity by applying Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer in John 17, asking:
What does the Lord pray for?
Why is this unity important?
How is this impossible task accomplished?
Free New Horizons Articles
“That They Might Be One”
by Philip T. Proctor
Helps for Worship #23: Old and New [...]
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Posted in Antithesis, Apologetics, Book Reviews, Christology, Doctrine of God, Ecclesiology, Historical Theology, J. Gresham Machen, Pilgrim Praxis, Prolegomena, Sacra Scriptura, Sanctification, Scripture, Semper Reformanda, Sola Ecclesia, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia, Sola Scriptura, Soteriology, Systematic Theology, tagged Christianity, inerrancy, religion on April 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen
Paperback; ISBN: 0802811213
Machen is not a man who minces words. Vis-a-vis modern liberalism he argues forcefully that Christianity is a religion based on (a) God’s objective, historical work of redemption in Jesus Christ and (b) God’s revelation which gives the meaning and context of Christ’s life and work. Modern [...]
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