November 4, 2009 by Reformed Joe
Posted on November 1, 2009 by R. Scott Clark
To Listen
Synod rejects the errors of those
5. who teach that a person can be historically, conditionally elect, regenerated, savingly united to Christ, justified, and adopted by virtue of participation in the outward administration of the covenant of grace but may lose these benefits through lack of covenantal faithfulness (CD, I, V);
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November 3, 2009 by Reformed Joe
October 29, 2009
• Religious Leaders Join Battle Against Climate Change (11 Years Too Late)
• Interview With Todd Wilken on Bible Believing Liberals
• Sermon Review, “Relational Intelligence – The Energy Carrier” by Erwin McManus
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November 2, 2009 by Reformed Joe
Sunday, November 01, 2009
How can we believe in God when there is so much evil and suffering in the world? Isn’t it arrogant to insist that Christianity is the only true religion? These questions and more will be addressed on this edition of the White Horse Inn as Tim Keller joins the panel to discuss his New York Times bestselling book, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.
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October 31, 2009 by Reformed Joe
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October 30, 2009 by Reformed Joe
October 22nd, 2009 by Darryl G. Hart
John Frame faced a choice. He could have reviewed Mike Horton’s book, Christless Christianity, or he could have abstained. He could have critiqued Horton’s indictment of Joel Osteen. He also could have offered his own critique of Osteen. Even if he disagreed vigorously with Horton, he could have let it go out of a sense of living with the eccentricities of a former colleague and a minister in a church with whom his own communion is in fellowship.
But Frame decided to write a lengthy review in which Horton’s assessment comes off as more theologically flawed than those whom Horton critiques.
On the one hand, according to Frame, Horton is wrong about contemporary evangelicalism:
Speaking, perhaps presumptuously, for “the American church,” let me attempt a reply. For what it is worth, my own perception of American evangelicalism is very different from Horton’s. My observation is anecdotal (just like his, in the final analysis), but based on around 55 years of adult observation in many different kinds of churches including the much maligned mega-churches. In most every evangelical church I have visited or heard about, the “focus” is on God in Christ. There has been something of a shift over the years in what Horton would call a “subjective” direction. But that is best described not as unfaithfulness, but as a shift toward more application of Scripture to people’s external situations and inner life. There is a greater interest in sanctification (not just justification), on Christianity as a world view, on believers’ obligations to one another, on love within the body of Christ, and in the implications of Scripture for social justice.
I don’t see this as wrong, or unbiblical. Indeed, I think this general trend is an improvement over the state of affairs fifty years ago. Scripture is certainly concerned about these matters, and we ought to teach and learn what it has to say.
(By the way, Frame thinks that Horton shares this outlook primarily with secular critics of American religion. But Frame does not acknowledge that conservative Protestants like David Wells and Carl Trueman, or moderate to liberal Protestants such as Douglas Webster, William Willimon, and Stanley Hauerwas agree with Horton more than Frame.)
HT – Yinkahdinay Blog
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October 29, 2009 by Reformed Joe
More on Doug Wilson & Federal Vision
Posted on October 26, 2009 by R. Scott Clark
In response to another post, Daniel F., one of Doug Wilson’s more ardent defenders, asked me to listen to a clip from a sermon which is supposed to demonstrate Wilson’s pristine evangelical, Protestant, Reformational orthodoxy on justification. What follows is a lightly revised running commentary written as I watched the clip—though I was not yelling at my windshield— which also serves to illustrate and justify (no pun intended) my claim that John Piper has interpreted Wilson quite selectively. Because the exchange happened in the comments box and would likely be lost among the other 10,000+ comments on the HB I’m reposting my running commentary here for fun and profit:
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October 28, 2009 by Reformed Joe
Applying God’s Law
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Is the Bible merely a manual of timeless ethics? If so, what do we do with the various civil and ceremonial laws from the Old Testament? Are we, like Israel of old, called to cleanse the land of idolatry by a kind of holy war? How should we interpret and apply texts of this kind? These questions and more will be addressed on this edition of the White Horse Inn.
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October 26, 2009 by Reformed Joe
Posted on October 22, 2009 by R. Scott Clark
I don’t know what’s in your garage, but from time to time mine has become pretty cluttered and stuff has to be pitched. What we keep and what we pitch says something about us. People have theological garages too, in which they keep all their theological influences and that collection can say a fair bit about the owner of the garage too. Recently John Frame wrote a review of Mike Horton’s book, Christless Christianity. In that review John opened up his garage and gave us a peek as to what he has kept, wants to keep, and what he wants to throw away.
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