Proto-Protestantism

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVII) The time is now. These essays have attem...

Moreover I also gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.(Ezekie...

As usual I have reworked the questions a bit but essentially I was asked the following. If God has made the distinctions between the Kingd...

Washer refers to infant baptism as the golden calf of the Reformation. To put it bluntly, he's wrong... but there's a sense in whi...

Recently I decided to revisit Paul Washer's Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church. You can get it in pamphlet form but in this cas...

But again, isn't certainty eliminated? By no means. Does it become all but impossible to form creedal statements and confessions? Not i...

I write this as something of a sequel to the essay on Salvation and the Question of Works. It's one thing to discuss the nature of sa...

Recently I encountered someone bringing a rather novel interpretation to the 'Lord, Lord' passage of Matthew 7. The well-known peri...

In Romans 9 Paul launches into a discussion regarding Israel and brings up the very important question regarding the fate of the Jewish peo...

Recently I heard what I considered to be an extreme example of the Law-Gospel hermeneutic at work. It struck me in the same way Hyper-Calvi...

Commentators are revisiting the issue of ECT or Evangelicals and Catholics Together. The original document was penned in 1994 and since it ...

Over the years I have encountered numerous Missouri Synod Lutherans who continually rail against Pietism. I mean they really have very stron...

For many Christians 'Quiet Time' is an important part of their spirituality. They take some time out of every day to read their Bib...

 This also brings us to what is often called the Law/Gospel hermeneutic. As we've discussed, there are several dynamics at work in how t...

Thus far I have been in agreement with the Vosian crowd rejection of the Federal Vision understanding of Redemptive-History. But at this poi...

I wish to touch on a few more issues. This series is not very popular. It's not being read by a lot of folks. Either people already deci...

Here's a link to the text of a good sermon pertinent to the Hyper-Solafideism discussion. He does well in defining Saving Faith... avoi...

The Bible presents us with a strange dynamic, one that defies Aristotelian-like attempts at systemization. As with the Incarnation, we are p...

 The Scriptures clearly teach that Salvation is a free gift. We can do nothing to earn it. We are lost, alienated from God, cursed and deser...

For those unfamiliar with theological jargon, this article will delve into unfamiliar waters. As much as possible I'm trying to avoid us...