Monthly Archives: February 2011

28
Feb

Proverbial Hebrews?

The book of Hebrews does not contain the words “wise” or “wisdom” even one time. Yet wisdom is nevertheless a major theme in Hebrews. Jesus learned obedience, we should have discernment of good and evil, and then there is the … Continue reading →

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28
Feb

What does Hell have to do with Love?

The most recent outbreak of worry that a prominent teacher is denying that God’s everlasting wrath (based on a publisher’s blurb? I’ll wait and see how things shake out after the book is released.), has got me thinking. I don’t … Continue reading →

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27
Feb

Hardboiled still speaks to me

I’ve been slowly re-reading Gene Wolfe’s epic, The Shadow of the Torturer, but today I was near a bookshelf holding Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest and opened it up and looked at the first page. I was hooked again. It has … Continue reading →

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27
Feb

Sunday P.M. Post: Packer on the Importance of Reading the Gospels

Christ’s way was the way of resurrection experience following a death experience, and we must expect to find that he is constantly taking us along that same road in on or another of its thousand different forms. Finally, we could … Continue reading →

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27
Feb

And now a Teaser about the Greatest Living Theologian

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27
Feb

Sunday A. M. Post: Richard Baxter on Church members

In a few words, every man that doth heartily believe in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, by a faith that worketh by love, is a true Christian. Or every one that taketh God for his only God, that … Continue reading →

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26
Feb

If justification by faith alone is not an ongoing justification then it is not justification by faith at all (Part 2)

CONTINUED Abraham is not alone in the story of his justification. According to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, “Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only … Continue reading →

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26
Feb

If justification by faith alone is not an ongoing justification then it is not justification by faith at all (Part 1)

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I … Continue reading →

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25
Feb

The population bomb was a hoax but the depopulation singularity is gathering strength

Mish reports: I’s now official. Japan’s demographic time bomb has gone off. However, don’t look for a big crater, at least just yet, because this has started off with a whimper and not a bang. Inquiring minds note the World’s … Continue reading →

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25
Feb

“Guest Post” by John Calvin on the Common Election as “Gate” to the Special

And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also. But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ should suffer, He has thus fulfilled. Repent … Continue reading →

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