Thursday, April 05, 2012

The Vision (4/5/12): Am I really a Christian? Answering Eight Doubts

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Note:   In his spiritual classic “Human Nature In Its Fourfold State,” the Scottish minister Thomas Boston (1676-1732) lists eight “cases”...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Horton: Does salvation require explicit faith in Christ in all cases?

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Does salvation require an explicit, conscious expression of faith in Christ? Michael Horton addresses this question in the final chapt...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Christ as Our Song Leader

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I preached Sunday from Romans 15:7-13 on Christ as  A Minister of the Circumcision . Here are some notes reflecting on v. 9b:  "As ...
Monday, April 02, 2012

Karl Barth on the Enlightenment

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In my ongoing efforts better to understand how Enlightenment thinking affected Biblical and textual studies in the 19th century, I have...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Vincent: Six Internal and Spiritual Miseries

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Our current Sunday afternoon series at CRBC has been through Spurgeon’s Baptist Catechism.   I have been reading alongside this study Tho...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Vision (3/29/12): With one mind and one mouth

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Note:   Here are some of my notes from last Sunday’s sermon Edification and Unity (Romans 15:1-7): “(5) Now the God of patience and con...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

When does the Christian Sabbath begin and end?

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There was an interesting discussion recently on the RB Yahoo list concering the proper timing of the Christian Sabbath.  Is it from sundow...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Video Review: "Courageous"

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My family (well, those of us over age 13) watched “Courageous,” the latest film from the Kendrick brothers and Sherwood Baptist Church, o...
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Christmas in March

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It can be kind of scary when a church member says, "Come out to the car, there's something I want to give you, Pastor."  I...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

The NKJV and the Song of Solomon

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In our Scripture reading in Lord's Day worship services at CRBC we have been making our way through the wisdom literature of the Old T...

Stylos blog milestone

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The Stylos blog passed the 100,000 page view milestone over the weekend.  The blog now has c. 2-300 page views per day.  It's nice to ...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Von Harnack, 19th century liberal scholarship, and implications for the text of Scripture

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Image:  Adolph von Harnack (1851-1930) Adolph von Harnack (1851-1930) was a leading, liberal German church historian and New Testame...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Vision (3/22/12): Top Ten Reasons Not to Attend or Join a Reformed Baptist Church

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Update:  This post also appeared on the Reformed Baptist Fellowship blog  and the Aquila Report . A tongue-in-cheek list of the reason...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Horton on ministers as God's covenant attorneys

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Here are more gleanings from Michael Horton's The Christian Faith on ecclesiology.  He makes the typical Reformed emphasis on the impor...

Blog recommendation: Answering Muslims

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Yesterday morning I noticed while listening to NPR and the BBC on the radio that they were suggesting that the shooting this week in the Jew...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Horton: Christ is our most decisive location.

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I'm now in the ecclesiology sections of Horton's The Christian Faith .  Horton is well known for his critique of pragmatic church gr...
Monday, March 19, 2012

Boston: "Your corrupt heart is like an ant's nest...."

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When preaching Sunday in our catechism series on The Sinfulness of Man's State, I used this quote from Thomas Boston in  Human Nature i...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Text Note: Doxology at the end of Romans 14:23?

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The issue: There is a major text critical issue with the ending of Romans that begins to rear its head at the close of Romans 14.   The qu...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Vision (3/15/12): For even Christ pleased not himself

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Note:   We concluded our exposition of Romans 14 last Sunday.   This great chapter addresses the important issues of Christian liberty, con...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Bunyan on the Lord's Day in "The Life and Death of Mr. Badman"

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I’ve been reading John Bunyan’s The Life and Death of Mr. Badman of late.   This is one of Bunyan’s lesser known spiritual allegories.   T...