Mark Horne

Interesting and (to me) chilling:
By the way, my prediction for 2010 is that once all of the FV advocates are together in the same church body, they’ll turn on each other–that will be interesting to watch.
(Of course, we already are all in the same church body, the body of Christ. But he is–erroneously, in [...]

This was the headline of the GOP.com website.  There are some things that sound sensible to some ruling social groups that just don’t fly on the web.
Ron Paul may not stand a chance, but his popularity ought to teach the GOP something about what kinds of things to broadcast, and what they should hide.

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Another piece of evidence:
Nor do the women feel that they got what they wanted from Dr Neubauer. “I really was hoping that he would take responsibility for what he had done so many years ago,” says Elyse.
“He refuses to be open to the possibility that they were wrong,” says Paula. “No matter what, we can’t [...]

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Heresy! Brothers cannot fall from the living God. If they fall then they were never really brothers.
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of [...]

Louisiana Presbytery Rationale (Official Document)

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Just to pick out one of many problems with this:
“Here’s a gift and here’s what you have to do to keep it” isn’t good news for sinners who cannot do “their part,” not even with the help of grace.
Then we must not tell sinners to repent and believe the Gospel. Requiring faith is now [...]

Merry Christmas (before it is too late).
The Reformation Day sermon I preached recently at Auburn Avenue Presbyterian Church can also serve as a Christmas message. Here is the text and here is the audio.
And to all a good night!

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When it comes to the Knox Colloquium, absolutely. This comment was just amazing to me.
Having now re-read DW’s exchanges with you on this topic, I think it is fair to say that he has not changed his personal views on this matter since at least 2003. At the Knox Colloquium, he and I agreed [...]

One of my many undeveloped blog projects has been my theological autobiography.
In 1993 or so, I made good friends with a PCA school teacher. He was discipled in RUF but also had a lot of other stuff in his background.
So I have no idea where he was coming from when he asked me to [...]

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having [...]

What is the difference between FV and not-FV.
I think it comes down to how one understands Scripture to relate to Reformed distinctives like monergism and predestination.
I remember being told by a Reformed professor that he became a calvinist when he realized that the Scriptural passages teaching particularism must be given some sort of interpretive priority [...]

Finally saw it to the end.  Great flick.

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The fake Steve Jobs is told all about his real assets.

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Hypercalvinism is a commitment to only using the word “grace” for that which brings about eternal salvation.  Anything less than that must never be thought of or spoken of as gracious.
And that is exactly what we find argued.  The only grace worth mentioning is the “amazing” kind that leads infallibly for eternal life.
And like Hoeksema [...]

Did Jesus weep for Carthage? For Pompeii?
Not as far as we know. Jesus never seemed to care about them. Even though he wanted to encourage love for the outsider, he always treated Israel and Jerusalem differently.
And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, [...]

It is possible some hypocritical motive might make this so in some cases.  But the Confession is clear that it is not the Flesh in every case. At least some number are moved to respond by the working of the Spirit just like those who are regenerated are so moved.
That’s what “common operation” means, [...]

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But it sounds like something Ron Paul said.

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This is interesting.
Pretty much confirms my present feelings about how “democratic” societies operate: promise the rule of law and then quietly take out the ones who bother you and who don’t have protection of friends.
That said, I don’t know enough about the merits of this case to know if the facts back up my prejudice.

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