Review: Souls in Transition
Dale Van Dyke is a graduate of Westminster Seminary California and a pastor of Harvest OPC in Wyoming, MI. He has review today of Christian Smith’s latest. Myth: Young adults are into spiritually but...
View ArticleSteve Chalke Comes Out For Homosexual Marriage
(HT: Gary Johnson) When we last saw him he was comparing the catholic, evangelical, and Reformed doctrine of substitutionary atonement (the doctrine that Jesus died in the place of his people thereby...
View ArticleHeidelcast Episode 33: Zeke Takes Us Behind The Scenes As The World Ends...
If you’ve been following the HB, the Heidelcast has been in re-runs for several months. Today, however, the Heidelcast is back with a brand new episode. Earlier this week I talked with Zeke Piestrup...
View ArticleMinisters All?
The uniqueness and centrality of the official preaching of the Word is diminished when we equivocate between the official, public, ordained administration of the Word and the unofficial witness to the...
View ArticleThe Silencing Of The Lambs
Where the situation becomes sinister is when one group attempts to police the activities of another, or where one Christian organization or leader uses their personal power or share of the market to...
View ArticleRefusing To Land Is Not Humility
I use this analogy when explaining to my students why they have to take positions on difficult theological issues: women in ministry, image of God, election, etc. Every year I have at least some...
View ArticleTribalists All
We may conclude, apparently, that Merritt favors cosmopolitanism to sectarianism. But what sense does this make of biblical calls for God’s people to isolate themselves. The Israelites weren’t exactly...
View ArticleGood Old Fashioned Subjectivist Goo
The following is a guest post by Jack Miller. He was educated at the University of Virginia (1970–72), the University of California at Santa Barbara (BA History 1974), and Grace Theological Seminary...
View ArticleThe Next Big Church Thing
The following is a guest post by Dan Borvan. He is a DPhil candidate in Oxford University. He holds degrees from Westminster Seminary California and Oxford University. He is Under Care of the Midwest...
View ArticleThe Strange Familiarity Of Socinianism
Each fall I lead a course in which we read some great texts of Reformed orthodoxy and scholasticism. This week we turned our attention to John Owen’s response to Socinianism. We’re focusing our...
View ArticleMachen: Evangelical Is Not Enough
“Evangelical,” on the other hand, although it is a fine term, does not quite seem to designate clearly enough the position of those who hold specifically to the system of doctrine taught in the...
View ArticleRick Warren And Catholics Together
Darryl Hart has a thought-provoking post today on Rick Warren’s recent comments about what Rome and Protestants have in common. Warren’s comments are a sterling reminder of the importance of knowing...
View ArticleThe Alliance Of Confessing Evangelicals In 1998: We Still Disagree With Rome
The first of these two documents, “Evangelicals and Catholics Together,” was a call to the Christian world to form a united front against the destructive influences of secular culture in such areas as...
View ArticleIdentity Markers: Why Some Axioms Persist
Peter Berger has been an influential and important sociologist of religion for more than 50 years. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology and Director of the Institute...
View ArticleReview: Souls in Transition
Dale Van Dyke is a graduate of Westminster Seminary California and a pastor of Harvest OPC in Wyoming, MI. He has review today of Christian Smith’s latest. Myth: Young adults are into spiritually but...
View ArticleSteve Chalke Comes Out For Homosexual Marriage
(HT: Gary Johnson) When we last saw him he was comparing the catholic, evangelical, and Reformed doctrine of substitutionary atonement (the doctrine that Jesus died in the place of his people thereby...
View ArticleHeidelcast Episode 33: Zeke Takes Us Behind The Scenes As The World Ends...
If you’ve been following the HB, the Heidelcast has been in re-runs for several months. Today, however, the Heidelcast is back with a brand new episode. Earlier this week I talked with Zeke Piestrup...
View ArticleMinisters All?
The uniqueness and centrality of the official preaching of the Word is diminished when we equivocate between the official, public, ordained administration of the Word and the unofficial witness to the...
View ArticleNature, Gender, Rage, The Emperor’s Clothes, And Evangelical Docetism
The controversy over transgendered bathrooms is really a symbol of the success of subjectivism. Hans Christian Anderson (1805–75) anticipated this crisis in the early 19th century and told us a story...
View ArticleThe Power And Influence Of The Evangelical Top Men
The economy of evangelical power is complicated but I want to highlight just two aspects today, aspects which have been critical in the recent discussion and which have a profound doctrinal...
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