Monthly Archives: October 2010

31
Oct

I’ll probably show up to the voting booth and demean myself, but I still find this stirring

I thought you might be interested to hear how I “voted” today. I live in Massachusetts but I go to school at Cornell, so I requested and received an absentee ballot a few weeks ago. Today, standing next to one … Continue reading →

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30
Oct

James Jordan “Concerning Halloween”

It has become routine in October for some Christian schools to send out letters warning parents about the evils of Halloween, and it has become equally routine for me to be asked questions about this matter. “Halloween” is simply a … Continue reading →

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28
Oct

Did Omri and Ahab demand perfect perpetual obedience?

The voice of the Lord cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: “Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it! Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house … Continue reading →

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28
Oct

RePost: Paul’s Use of the Decalogue in Ephesians 6.1ff

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth” … Continue reading →

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27
Oct

While they don’t come to Christ “truly,” do the non-elect ever respond to the Gospel by the work of the Spirit?

the authors … either assumed or made explicit a distinction which the FV either denies or ignores: the distinction between a purely external relation to the covenant of grace and an internal relation to the covenant of grace. via What’s … Continue reading →

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26
Oct

RePost: Baptism as Installation

Stories make for better theology than do vocabulary definitions in most situations.  When we think of theology we think of books that are close cousins to encyclopedias and dictionaries. The Bible, however, gives us a story, the history of a … Continue reading →

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25
Oct

Yet another place where “law” means Gospel

It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow … Continue reading →

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25
Oct

Pressing Onward

Forgetting is no mere force of inertia as the superficial imagine; it is rather an active and in the strictest sense positive faculty of repression that is responsible for the fact that what we experience and absorb enters our consciousness … Continue reading →

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24
Oct

RePost: Baptismal Grace as easy as writing a good check

An Alien Retail Experiment in “Baptismal Regeneration” Imagine someone from another world trying to learn to live in our society according to our customs. What if someone gave him a check for a hundred dollars for his birthday–the first check … Continue reading →

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24
Oct

Zwingli on the question of what would have happened to Esau if he had died in infancy

What then of Esau if he had died as an infant? Would your judgment place him among the elect? Yes. Then does election remain sure? It does. And rejection remains also. But listen. If Esau had died an infant he … Continue reading →

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