Proto-Protestantism

Here’s a Colson commentary from the other day. It’s a great illustration of how these folks think. It clearly displays the assumptions of ...

Here’s the transcript of an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air Programme from a couple of days ago. It is rather interesting and illustrative be...

High Places, apostasy, and no Reformation on the horizon...but it might be a good thing, if we reckon things as God does.   TD Gordon, a ...

So what to do? I'll admit, it's a bit discouraging when I look at the contemporary ecclesiastical scene. I'm even discoura...

While it may sound strange to some, we attend an annual event near our home. It's a World War II re-enactment. I'm not into re-enac...

There are strong Romantic sentiments reigning within Christian circles today. They glory in the heritage of Christendom, the West. Upon cl...

 The issues at hand: Transformationalism Politicizes the Gospel, leading to agenda-driven thought, and often a complete rejection of gen...

First, a quick revisit of some basic concepts.... As we've stated many times, Sacralism redefines Christianity. Biblically we can spea...

The previous four posts are simply definitions that are being linked in the glossary. It's not my intention to invent wild sounding ...

Perspectival Soteriology Others use the term Perspectivalism, and I'm certainly not advocating their theological position, but it...

Hyper-Eschatologized Ecclesiology and its symptom or fruit...Ecclesiastical Apathy- These are high sounding terms for a concept that...

Hermeneutical Compression- This is but another way of describing one or some of the various nuances that result from theological systemic...

  Sacralist Collective- The Bible deals with individuals and a collective body... the Church. The Church of course can be viewed i...

I'm still here....though I haven't been online much lately. Thanks for the recent comments and handful of emails. God willing I...

Here's an interesting blog post with accompanying links. Some of you will be aware of the controversy surrounding Goshen College in In...

And a general exhortation regarding Africa past and present. For those who might be somewhere near Ohio on 12 June, there’s a worthwhile e...

I’ve remarked before how American Evangelicalism is increasingly embracing the Liturgical Calendar with Lent (not to mention Passover) and o...

While Paul certainly exhorts us to eschew the wisdom of the world, what exactly does that mean? It can mean a lot of different things, but p...

 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...

Anyone reading this series may think that Obama's speech on 19 May has negated what I've said here regarding Israel. Howse argues th...

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...

I've mentioned this before but there's a scene in Fiddler on the Roof that always makes me chuckle.

Pardon the somewhat bitter tone…….. Some are apparently surprised by this, but I'm not. Apparently John Ashcroft, the Evangelical and ...

Theonomist Bret McAtee's (IronInk) recent article, another critique of Two Kingdom theology provides a good opportunity to demonstrate w...

updated 5 Oct 2011- I removed a factual error I made regarding the Department of Education. It was started under Carter, not Reagan...but th...

1. Obama obviously wants to ride this Bin Laden Raid Wave as long as he can. His numbers are poor, he’s been humiliated, and this gives him ...

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...

Howse: The second dangerous national tipping point that is inviting God's wrath is found in the book of Nahum. The prophet Nahum shows...

Now that I've probably lost or upset many by writing about Justification, I'm afraid I will probably only alienate more folks with t...

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...

 *updated 15 May 2011 Despite President Obama's evident humiliation in having after two years in office to produce the long form of hi...

Emmanuel Goldstein. If you don't know what that refers to, then you definitely need to read George Orwell's 1984. Of the two major...