Monthly Archives: April 2010

30
Apr

A hypercalvinist describes Reformed teaching on baptism

Interestingly, many who left the Reformed Church under Dr. K. Schilder were of the Secession of 1834 and, therefore, leaned toward the common grace of the offer, the same idea appeared among the people of the Liberated Church. It took, … Continue reading →

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30
Apr

Martin Bucer on trusting the way the Bible speaks of the Sacraments

Christ truly washes from their sins and regenerates those upon whom the Church bestows baptism, which is in fact the laver of regeneration… Since we ought to speak of the Word and Sacraments as the Lord has commended them to … Continue reading →

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29
Apr

John 16.21

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. via … Continue reading →

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29
Apr

C. S. Lewis on Anxiety

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the … Continue reading →

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29
Apr

John Murray on justification in union with Christ

It is in Christ that we are justified (Acts 13.39; Romans 8.1; First Corinthians 6.11; Galatians 2.17). At the outset we are here advised that it is by union with Christ and by some specific relation to him involved in … Continue reading →

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28
Apr

Charles Hodge on the basis of vindication at the last judgment

Was Charles Hodge out of accord with the Westminster Standards as interpreted by the FV Study Committee? Hodge writes of the final judgment: “The ground or matter of judgment is said to be the ‘deeds done in the body,’ men … Continue reading →

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28
Apr

RePost: Ridderbos on the justification of the ungodly and union with Christ

The justification of the ungodly is a justification “in Christ,” that is to say, not only on the ground of his atoning death and resurrection, but also by virtue of the corporate inclusion in him of his own.

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28
Apr

Kierkegaard on Christian Scholarship

Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close . . . We would be sunk if it were not … Continue reading →

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28
Apr

Wright’s lecture on Paul’s Gospel

Introduction Thank you for your warm welcome and generous hospitality. It is an enormous pleasure for Maggie and myself to be here in Monroe for the first time. I am particularly grateful to those who have worked very hard to … Continue reading →

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28
Apr

Jesus’ Gospel is Paul’s 3

42 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 43 And if your hand causes … Continue reading →

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