Monthly Archives: August 2009

31
Aug

Does Boston offer proof of a Covenant of Works at Sinai (2)

Continuing my interaction with Boston, his second argument is as follows: 2. The nature of the covenant of works is most expressly in the New Testament brought in, propounded, and explained from the Mosaical dispensation. The commands of it from … Continue reading →

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31
Aug

John Piper pushes for a more Biblical understanding of the order and parts of salvation

Glorification Now? :: Desiring God. I may be wrong, but it seems to me it would be excellent if the Reformed tradition (i.e the grammatical customs preserved by those who call themselves “Reformed”) reformed themselves to conform more closely to … Continue reading →

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30
Aug

Ayn Rand speaks

when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you… know that your society is doomed. Read it all at: Ayn Rand … Continue reading →

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28
Aug

Really fine line, but it still excludes

Asked a PCA pastor friend when he became a Christian. He was raised in a relatively non-religious home and became more aware as a believer in Jesus later in life. But he was baptized as an infant and the first … Continue reading →

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28
Aug

J. S. Bach

I finished this book awhile ago.  It was quite readable and appropriately brief.  Bach was a superior musician who knew he was superior and was usually at the mercy of people who didn’t know enough to appreciate him.  He didn’t … Continue reading →

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27
Aug

In those days, when there was no king in Israel,

a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her … Continue reading →

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26
Aug

Trade is embedded in God

The fundamental fact of reality is God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God could have decided not to make the world. He could have chosen to simply remain “alone.” But there is no possible world in which God does … Continue reading →

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26
Aug

How wide is the anarchist principle?

The definition in the preface of Chrispin Sartwell’s Against the State seems surprisingly soft to me. “By anarchism I refer to the view that all forms of human association ought to be, as far as possible, voluntary.”  Wouldn’t any minarchist … Continue reading →

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26
Aug

5 books every Anglo-American Evangelical Reformed Bookworm should read

OK, the rather lengthy title is there for a reason. First an apology: I don’t mean to be sectarian.  Ideally the subject matter of these books should be grasped by every Christian, period.  But most of them are written to … Continue reading →

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25
Aug

YouTube – Tim Hawkins – The Government Can

YouTube – Tim Hawkins – The Government Can.

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