Common sense would say that the price should come down for a new product. Eventually I suppose that will happen, but I’m surprised to learn that the new Xbox is being sold for less than production cost. Of course, I shouldn’t be that surprised. We get all sorts of freebies in softwear [...]
I don’t often do this, but I point you to this comment in context:
The RPCGA says that Fv denies justification by faith alone. The PCA hammer has not yet come down. However, the majority of the PCA is noton board with FV, as is the OPC. So, the majority of orthodox communities see’s consistantly that [...]
I remember (imperfectly, I’m sure) that line from the protagonist in a John Grisham movie adaptation. The young lawyer sat across the table from an older lawyer. The older lawyer was defending a health insurance company that had deliberately refused their obligations to the point that a young man was now fatally sick. [...]
Paul writes:
Paul J Dean’s Comments on Wright do seem a bit thin
Thirdly, in Duncan’s own words, the New Perspective ‘has gotten the Reformers wrong. They have done a disservice to Luther’s and Calvin’s exegesis. This has been pointed out not only by Carl Trueman, but by Lee Gatiss, Kim Riddlebarger and many others who have [...]
What does it mean when someone’s orthodoxy would be impeccable except that the person in question is claiming that certain words can be used by the orthodox in certain ways that jive with, subtantiate, or even extend the influence of orthodoxy–words that have also been used by the unorthodox?
Why it means we can cast all [...]
If one wants to see a real angle where Wright may deserve criticism (and since I haven’t read the book I have to sit loose on the issue, though I trust Andrew and I’ve received some confirming hints): see this brief and non-hysterical log entry.
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This post is rather sad.
According to Wright, the gospel has nothing to do with the message that Christ died for sinners and that His work can be applied to sinners that they might be justified before a holy God.
Nothing to do? Wright’s argument that the term Gospel does not mean a string of [...]
No Roman Catholic of any real sincerity would consider mere disillusionment with that denomination to be grounds for leaving it. Yet, mere disillusionment with Protestantism is often treated by Roman Catholics as if it were grounds for defection. Protestants find out that they’ve been taught a bunch of phobia-driven revisionist nonsense about Church History, [...]
In 1994, George Grant got invited to speak at Covenant College at Lookout Mountain, GA and he invited me to come with him. I readily agreed because I would get to spend time with George (I worked for/with him then) and because I’d get to meet Cal Beisner again, someone I respected a great [...]
Something I wrote awhile back which seems to refelct on current controversies about the nature/task of theology:
One of the astounding oddities of the beginning of the English translation of Bavinck’s first volume of Reformed Dogmatics (pp. 34, 35) is that he lists William Ames as a bad guy for defining theology as “the art of [...]
Readers interested in knowing more about the attacks on Paul Helm’s piece…
Is there any limit to the spin here? Responding to this is an attack? What? Like when the Texan colonists attacked the Mexican army at the Alamo?
Well, for those who are interested, here is another piece of aggression.
For the record, I [...]
Reformed theology is simple in that it requires no elaborate formula, no prescribed confession or catechisms, but is merely based on the unadorned an unpretentious principles and order found in the Bible, by precept and example, which supply the substance of new-covenant teaching. There is of course, a small but intelligent and literate movement advocating [...]
Paul Helm’s attack on John Franke (See here) now continues.
I’m too busy to track down links to how this fares in blogdom. Happy hunting.
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Guardians for Profit: When a Family Matter Turns Into a Business:
Jones’ conservator is part of a young, growing and largely unregulated trade in California.
Conservatorship began as a way to help families protect enfeebled relatives from predators and self-neglect. As a final recourse, courts take basic freedoms from grown men and women and give conservators sweeping [...]
God on their side.
Are there words strong enough to describe what is wrong with this? Is there any point in doing so?
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In the case of authors writing about post-modernism and theology sins could include:
Writing an introductory book without a bibliography.
Writing an introductory book without an annotated bibliography (fun to read and fun to write! Why would anyone deny himself and us such pleasure?)
Writing an introductory book without mentioning Fergus Kerr’s Theology After Wittgenstein.
Mentioning the Reformation [...]
I haven’t read John Franke’s The Character of Theology. Clearly, in this day and age, a book on theology could contain almost anything bad. The publisher, Baker Book House, might limit that a bit, but I wouldn’t trust such a publisher to protect us from error. I know nothing about Franke so [...]
I really appreciated Michael’s honesty and willingness to serve as an example. I think his last sentence is profound, perhaps more than he realizes.
Thanks to John Barach, here is some advice Luther gave to a ruler prone to depression:
I should like to encourage Your Grace, who are a young man, always to be joyful, [...]
From chapter 3 of Titus:
1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, [...]
Wow. Doing some brainless work I downloaded this sermon on the temptatons of Jesus in the wilderness. Actually, I was listening to another one, got distracted, and this one came next so that I accidently heard the beginning of it.
Rich presents the idea that Jesus was fundamentally tempted about what the Son of [...]
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