Posted in Christian Living, Worship on Jan 31st, 2009 22 Comments »
As a follow-up to this post, where I discussed the change of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, I’d simply like to add a few concluding thoughts for clarity.
First, as I demonstrated, John calls one particular day of the week, the ‘Lord’s Day‘. And if we are honest in evaluating this term in light of [...]
Posted in Law/Gospel on Jan 28th, 2009 9 Comments »
Law and Gospel –Pretty simple, huh? Pretty basic doctrines of the Christian faith, right? One would think that the visible church is agreed on exactly what is Law, what is Gospel, and what is that perfect balance between the two, but it sure seems like nothing is more hotly debated amongst Christians in our day.
Law
Let’s [...]
Posted in Christian Culture on Jan 26th, 2009 24 Comments »
A few days ago, Tom Ascol of the Founder’s Ministry linked to a rather interesting video highlighting the ‘Exponential Change’ that we are seeing in this generation. I’ve included this fascinating video below, but I wanted share a few thoughts before you view it. Specifically, as I viewed the video, the story of the Tower [...]
Posted in Christian Culture on Jan 21st, 2009 No Comments »
I am spending a few posts in the coming weeks sharing various excerpts from the Michael Horton book, Christless Christianity. This is the third post in what I hope to be a mini-series examining the claims of this book. (P1 & P2)
As I have said before, I highly recommend Christless Christianity to you, as I [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Church, Puritans, Worship on Jan 19th, 2009 5 Comments »
The Worship of the English Puritans
by Horton Davies
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 304
Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria
ISBN#: 1573580430
Summary: A largely academic approach in examining the history of Puritan worship, but very thorough and informative on several critical issues surrounding worship and the Word of God. This is a much needed work in our day.
On the [...]
Posted in Christian Living, Worship on Jan 17th, 2009 28 Comments »
From Sam Waldron, Modern Exposition of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith?:
“In Genesis 2:3 it says that God set apart the seventh day because He rested on that day. Recognizing that what God did in redemption was so great that nothing less than the concept of a new creation could describe it, we must understand [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jan 14th, 2009 7 Comments »
As a follow-up to my previous post where I detailed my top 10 books read in 2008, in this post I will give a limited Bibliography for what I plan to read in 2009.
Please note that I am prefacing this Bibliography with a ‘as the Lord wills‘. It seems as though every time I have [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, Church, Worship on Jan 12th, 2009 10 Comments »
I am spending a few posts in the coming weeks sharing various excerpts from the Michael Horton book, Christless Christianity. This is the second post in what I hope to be a mini-series examining the claims of this book.
As I have said before, I highly recommend Christless Christianity to you, as I consider it to [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jan 10th, 2009 53 Comments »
The Day God Made
by Glen Knecht
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 101
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN#: 0851518516
Summary: Devotional, Succinct, Convincing
The rise in dispensational theology in our day, specifically the so-called ‘literal’ hermeneutic that underlies it, complete with its call for proof texts of ‘thou shalt’ in order to establish truth, has largely annulled any concept of man’s [...]
Posted in Christian Culture, The Gospel, Theology on Jan 5th, 2009 16 Comments »
I am going to spend a few posts in the coming weeks sharing various excerpts from the Michael Horton book, Christless Christianity. This is the first post in what I hope to be a mini-series examining the claims of this book.
As I have said before, I highly recommend Christless Christianity to you, as I consider [...]
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