Monthly Archives: June 2005

Brief notice

By the way, one thing that is keeping me too busy to write much is the fact that I am going to Juarez in a couple of weeks to teach the advanced class in an English as a Second Lanuguage … Continue reading

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Instead of a blog entry

Back from GA, but too busy to write much. Had a great time at the assembly meeting old friends and even making new ones. I thought Batman Begins was the movie we had all been waiting for. I didn’t hate … Continue reading

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Spelling out the cross

Are you a young presbyterian guy looking for the girl of your dreams? There is a reason why the cross is a stumbling block.

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The problem with arguments over ideas

The problem with arguments over ideas is that they never last as such. Invariably people identify with them and, at that point, the issue is no longer defending an idea as much as establishing one’s identity. And of course, appealing … Continue reading

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More good news

This is wonderful in so many ways. And it is providentially a great follow-up to the interaction between Dr. Chapell and Rev. Lusk. I’m slightly disappointed this was made a matter of dispute (as evidenced by the reply box missing … Continue reading

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What Ridderbos Really Said

According to Herman Ridderbos, justification is a second-order doctrine. He writes of the Gospel that Paul preached that it has been easily misunderstood due to a concern for individual justification or other concerns. [I]t has become evident how easily the … Continue reading

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In love with us

We know that God doesn’t need us or anything in his creation. We feel need and it is entangled in our emotions. The mistake is to think that because God lacks the need we have that he also lacks the … Continue reading

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Once more with feeling

Those of you who have been catching televised reruns of Buffy, might not realize how abbreviated the musical episode in season six really is. I heard a version of Spike’s song that had a complete verse that was missing from … Continue reading

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Wollebius on infant faith and baptism

From The Abridgment of Christian Divinity So exactly and methodically compiled that it leads us, as it were by the hand to the: –Reading of the Holy Scriptures –Ordering of Common Places –Understanding of Controversies –Clearing of Some Cases of … Continue reading

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Faith and faithfulness

Colossians 1.21-23: And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, … Continue reading

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