Mark Horne

I always thought he was.  Still think so.  And I’ve always been aware of the following passage:

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews [...]

John Williamson Nevin’s Controversy With Charles Hodge Over the Imputation of Adam’s Sin (with a Comparison to Robert L. Dabney)
[The footnotes go back (I hope) to where I originally posted this paper. I wrote it in 1997 and it won the Aiken Taylor Church History Award of the Presbyterian Church in America. I [...]

One of the things I find really disappointing about N. T. Wright’s commentary on Romans is how he denudes the force of Paul’s warning in Romans chapter 11 in favor of a rather vague idea of “once saved, always saved.”
I mention this because, while in seminary, I made a point of spending some time reading [...]

When I declare — and with the pretention of the greatest accuracy in a new binding — that election is the cause and fountain of our total salvation, then I run the danger of making someone, and later the whole church, think that if election is present then the fountain is bubbling, the cause is [...]

Originally posted on 7/30/2007.
Title: HIStory
Column: A Pastor’s Perspective
Date: Don’t have that written down on my copy.  Sometime between around 1999 to 2000.
Magazine: Ligonier Ministries’ TableTalk
Quick! What’s the basic message of the Bible? Summarize it in as few words as possible and say what first comes to mind.
Here’s how I would answer the question:
Boy meets [...]

A tweet:
Good works are necessary for salvation. Thus says http://www.hornes.org/mark/ on 12/16 while channeling Norman Shepherd.
Well, it is true that the post mentioned Norman Shpeherd.  But was I channeling him or others?
What I wrote is that Shepherd prompted me to investigate Reformed Orthodoxy.
What bothers me a great deal looking back at the accusations that were [...]

So, after graduating from college I got a job working for Coral Ridge Ministries and fell into regular conversation for awhile with a seminary grad (RTS or Westminster) who told me about Norman Shepherd.  It was probably 1990.  He said (and I’m pretty sure I have this word perfect because it made an impression) that [...]

Consider some dates:

1845-1885
1880-1920
1910-1950
1920-1960
1935-1975
1950-1990
1970-2010

So, I’ve always wanted to know/feel what it was like to live through amazing technological, economic, and political changes.  What does it feel like to pass through such amazing transitions?
Now it dawns on me that everyone forty or over already knows.  In fact, everyone in recent Western history has gone through such dramatic [...]

It seems to me that there is a model of reality prevalent in the way we think  The model involves minds controlling mechanisms that happen to be bodies.  One’s mind is the person sitting at the computer controlling the shooter in the video game with a mouse aiming a gun and fingers on w, a, [...]

(Continued from Part One)
Can we talk about Wright’s idea of Israel still being in exile now?
OK, we should probably get back to that.  Part of Wright’s offense, as it were, is that he does real covenant theology; which means, he understands that the God revealed in the Bible is a God who is bound to [...]

What do you think of N. T. Wright?
Hard to say now.  It has been so long since I have seriously read him.
Why is that?
Well, one big reason (probably not the biggest one) is “The Camille Paglia phenomenon.”  He got famous after his “second big book,” Jesus & the Victory of God, and then only managed [...]

Here’s the cover, and here is George’s commendation.  As he says, I came into the project especially for the chapter on nineteenth century missions.  It was an honor to be part of it because, for a small book, it was in my view an important one.
I have been bothering Jay about producing a generic form [...]

When Jennifer and I left Nashville to go to seminary in St. Louis, I was certain that I would find some ministry opportunity when I was done so that we could move back and continue to raise a family with friends we knew in Nashville, which I presumed to think of as our adopted home [...]

I think it is objectively important for many reasons, but, personally, writing this paper was a water shed experience to the extent that intellectual “arrivals” or cognitive rest are important to pastoral life.
Basically, I’m snipping pieces of it and blogging them. Long papers are not really web friendly. I suspect that I will [...]

One of my favorites: Dr. Edmund Clowney, lecturing on typology and hermeneutics, addressed the position that we can only find types in the OT that are mentioned in the NT. He said:
That’s like saying that we’re only allowed to do a problem in a math textbook if the answer to that problem is given [...]

So at some point during World Breastfeeding Week, I went back in the Dooce archives (huge, gartantuan content warning; I AM NOT KIDDING) and read about Leta’s first days in the Armstrong household via Heather’s posts. I knew she would provide me with spiritual nourishment and I was not disappointed:
I decided many years ago [...]

I’ve posted some other pictures of high school days but this one is more accurate because I spent most of my time from ninth grade on trying to cover acne pits with what beard I could grow.
But I really like this picture because, despite the retro hippy hair and the parachute pants and the (ugh) [...]

Title: HIStory
Column: A Pastor’s Perspective
Date: Don’t have that written down on my copy.  Sometime between around 1999 to 2000.
Magazine: Ligonier Ministries’ TableTalk
Quick! What’s the basic message of the Bible? Summarize it in as few words as possible and say what first comes to mind.
Here’s how I would answer the question:
Boy meets girl.
No, I am [...]

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I was raised in a devout Evangelical home. Both parents were and are sincere Christians. I “asked the Lord Jesus into my heart” at age six and was baptized at age eight.
My parents were devout and raised us to be. We never skipped church and we read about and talked about the [...]