Mark Horne

Baby Tossed Into Lake Represents Broader Epidemic

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Daniel sent me a link to this article. It is amazing (and probably not true in many places). My favorite section:
So why did Fox kill Firefly so deliberately? Did they want to punish creator Joss Whedon for his “unexpected” successes with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel? Demonstrate to him conclusively that it [...]

[RANT ON]
OK, last post today; I promise.
Remember when you first met your wife, and fell in love with her? Remember your heartrate? Remember the difficulty breathing? Remember the shakes?
Do you dare presume to think you’ve had a richer emotional experience than God? Do you think God doesn’t know what it’s like [...]

I read some seventeenth-century Reformed theologians arguing that because baptism is effective it must be more than a seal. I read others arguing (against Socinians) that baptism is effective because it is a seal, not just a sign.
Someone needs to wade through the literature and give us a dissertation on this. As it [...]

To offer a different way of writing Reformed book reviews, here is John Barach’s take on the book.

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Of course, I haven’t watched every show out there. Stargate remains a complete unknown to me, for example.
And sci-fi is so vast a field that it really is implausible to put them all in one group. The X-files was nothing like Star Trek at all (thankfully). Star Wars and Gattaca…. it [...]

A sermon on Ephesians 4.1-7
I may have told you all before about a friend of mine who was a ruling elder in a Presbyterian Church. They received as new members a mother and adult son who had recently come to affirm the Reformed Faith as the proper expression of the Gospel according to the [...]

The Reformed tradition has largely understood that the OT was an administration of the Covenant of Grace before Christ came. There have been attempts to deny this but they are, in my view, completely unconvincing. The most that can be said is that some have emphasized a relationship between Adam’s covenant and the [...]

Damn straight!
Hat Tip: BHT

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The new theme at Reformation21’s blog and the first installment therein are direct and forceful reminders of why Norman Shepherd has been so helpful to Presbyterian pastors in North American Evangelicalism.
The theme is why exposing sin is easier for us than applying grace. The assumption is that the problem and the solution lies in [...]

I’m waiting for someone to point out to accuse anyone who claims that Jesus had twelve disciples during his lifetime must be guilty of “another gospel.” After all, Jesus said, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples” (John 8.31). That settles it right? At most Jesus had eleven [...]

Regarding this post:
The internet monk liked it and Dave strongly pushes it as an antidote to Chalke.
But frankly, I remain unsatisfied. The silence in certain quarters is more evidence, if any more is needed, that there is no reasoning with some accusers.

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I haven’t read this book by Donald Miller, but I’m getting tired of being able to predict what a negative Reformed book review from a Reformed will always sound like.
When a book is rather one-sided, why not praise what is good about it and then recommend other perspectives? Given the fact that the reviewer [...]

Back on my old blog, before I suspended it, I got a book out of the CTS Library and blogged about it. I thought it might be helpful to have it available again:
The Doctrine of the Church of England as to the Effects of Baptism in the Case of Infants by William Goode
These lectures [...]

Hebrews is written to people who are wondering why they have to die. As far as we can tell, they were primarily Jewish Christians facing the imminent threat of persecution and death. According to chapter 10, verse 32 and following, they had already suffered for the Faith, been publicly humiliated, and joyfully accepted [...]

Rick has a great blog entry about his trip to Uganda. I remember as an MK in Liberia hearing the horror stories from Uganda under Amin (the horror stories from Liberia began after we left). It was unreal because this sort of stuff barely makes a ripple on this side of the Atlantic.

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I see here that there is a review of the Guy Water’s latest book in the morst recent issue of the Westminster Theological Journal.

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For those who are interested, Here is some fascinating material (I haven’t read it all) on the show LOST. The guy analyzes the material with the help of the DVR and comes up with some interesting things. (i.e. When Kate went to see her non-bio father the TV was on and Sayid’s face [...]

If you have a house and decide to make improvements, which of these two options should you choose?

Building a rustic one-room cabin in the back yard complete with stone fire place all authentically aged to the point of including rusty tools hanging from the outside wall: tiling the basement with idyllic hunting scenes in various [...]

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The Missouri Presbytery Report says of Covenant children that, “we understand that by their baptism, they are renouncing the devil, the world, and their own sinful flesh…” What? Surely this is wrong!
Well, if it is wrong, then BCO 56-4.g needs to be amended. Of course, this could be interpreted in more [...]