I just saw this story (hat tip). Mother’s Against Drunk Driving has managed to institute some sort of campaign in which trusted the police come and issue a false report on the death of a classmate. The ruse is admitted to an hour later.
I just don’t think there is any way to condone this. Lying [...]
If you get your piece published, you need to remember to deliver on your promises.
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I haven’t written about writing lately, so I direct your attention to this blog post, with which I interacted. The occasion of the post was that Robert Bly saw a recommendation that, unless your customer complains, you are not charging enough.
I don’t need to repeat my own appraisal of that advice here. Another calculation was [...]
Listening to a Sinclair Ferguson lecture, “Acquitted Through Faith,” I hear him insist that the efficacy of faith is not derived from the character of faith but from the object of that faith.
This is so much clearer than claiming that faith is “passive” in justification which will tend to make people focus on the character [...]
One finds in the Bible warnings against professing believers (called “brothers” and “saints”) that they must not abandon their faith lest they come under the eternal wrath of God.
Professing calvinists today often treat these warnings as if they are “problem texts” that challenge God’s sovereign work in preserving the elect. But if this were true, [...]
The professing Christian who, by misunderstanding Scripture and/or “the proper form of the doctrine” refuses to proclaim justification by faith alone.
OR
The professing Christian who twists Scripture or denigrates any passage he feels he needs to in order to “defend” his understanding of justification by faith alone.
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Personally, I really prefer to actually own the book, but this is still really cool:
Doctrine of the Christian Life
By John M. Frame
Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy,
Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, FL
hosted@ reformedperspectives.org
• Doctrine of the Christian Life Study Guide
a study guide
Webpage PDF Word
• The Doctrine of the Christian Life
Chapter 1: Introduction
Webpage PDF Word
• The Doctrine of the Christian Life
Chapter [...]
It is no surprise, given the size and complexity of the Bible, that when you have read it all repeatedly you will be in a position to correct people who come to premature conclusions about what a certain passage is saying when they have not taken the time to read the rest.
It is simply common [...]
To point out that Hebrews is a covenant document is to say something true and important. But it is a dangerous thing to point out. Because it is possible to communicate by those words the gross falsehood that Hebrews is a special subchristian kind of document. Romans 8 is the pure truth about believers and [...]
One of the best (and worst if one is not used to being humble) aspects of our current situation (business took a nose dive, looking for work) is the number of people who show their love to us by sacrificially giving us gifts. It is just amazing.
Recently, that charity included a McDonald’s gift card. I [...]
I recently found that I had forgotten/lost some stuff from my last Presbytery meaning. Out of sight, out of mind, and all that. I hate this especially because I had intended to read and review for you Dr. Peterson’s (full disclosure: he was one of my systematics professors at my alma mater) Election & Free [...]
Here’s a passage from Exodus 23. See if it makes sense to you:
You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, [...]
The kids are out of school and I need to do some work. Jennifer does her usual helpful thing and volunteers to take all four of ours, plus one guest, to the St. Louis Science Center. Everything is great.
Then, as everyone is bustling around, I notice again something that bothered me last night–that when I’m [...]
(That is mainly because I have no client who pays me to do so.)
But I just want to express my wistfulness that St. Louis is not more like Dallas in some ways. Mainly, when someone posts this sort of job “offer,” you quickly get appropriate responses, like this. Sadly, I think the first thrown tomato [...]
House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep,
and an idle person will suffer hunger.
So, typically one has to work for one’s living and slothfulness is a sin. But when it comes to a wife, Adam couldn’t do any work to acquire one. He had to [...]
Before anything is said from Mount Sinai, Moses is already choosing judges in Israel and teaching them the law of God so that they can judge justly.
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How can we say that Hebrews is exhorting some to get converted? It says nothing of the kind. I says of all those who have become disciples that they must not abandon Christ, lest they fall into condemnation.
The message is never, “Some of you were falsely converted and need to do it for real,” but [...]
I wondered recently about what conclusions we should make concerning Abraham’s work in Isaac’s marriage as recorded in Genesis. Especially since we have a number of different courtship methods mentioned in the Bible. I just came across Proverbs 19.14, which I think fits rather well:
House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a prudent wife is [...]
Good sense makes one slow to anger,
and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
Pretty sure this might be applicable to parenting and discipline.
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I doubt there is much need for me to describe this book. If you like Stephen King or Dean Koontz, if you like C. S. Lewis (especially The Magician’s Nephew), if you like Tim Powers or James Blaylock (and you really should), if you have any appreciation for urban fantasy (though it is set in rural [...]
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