Proto-Protestantism
Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation
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A General Welcome (updated)
Who were the Proto-Protestants?
Glossary
A brief note regarding Gnostic Dualism
Why Suport This Project
The Critical Spirit, Confrontation and Perceived A...
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26 November 2014
Law, Systemic Violence and Societal Institutions
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A lawsuit is a petition to the court, calling on the court to address your grievance. You're saying that someone has violated a law, or ...
24 November 2014
Lamech and the Evangelical Culture of Death
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I own a few guns but I haven't fired them in many years and have seriously considered getting rid of them. I'm not sure how. For dif...
22 November 2014
Stewardship and Parable Inversion- Concluding Thoughts
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When the Church shifted and was transformed by Constantinianism, many old values and ways of thinking had to be abandoned in order to create...
Stewardship and Parable Inversion
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Speaking of terms and terminology it is worthy to note how the term 'stewardship' is used in such radically different ways. Every...
10 November 2014
Pietism, Higher Criticism and the Prussian Union of 1817
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Over the years I have encountered numerous Missouri Synod Lutherans who continually rail against Pietism. I mean they really have very stron...
03 November 2014
Technology Tangles: Ethics, Politics, Euthanasia and the Avoidance of the Real Questions at Stake (Part 2 of 2)
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The technology has brought us to a point where we have to ask these difficult and sometimes impossible questions about how far do we dare to...
Technology Tangles: Ethics, Politics, Euthanasia and the Avoidance of the Real Questions at Stake
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Recently there's been a great deal of secular and Christian news coverage, regarding a woman in her late twenties that is planning to ta...
31 October 2014
Exiles in Babylon: Should Christians Vote? (II)
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With bitterness any Constantinian will be forced to admit the New Testament says absolutely nothing about their vision of society. There...
Exiles in Babylon: Should Christians Vote?
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As strangers, pilgrims and exiles we view the state as something that is wholly other or outside the Kingdom realm to which we belong. ...
Prophetic Idiom, Prophetic Perspective and Redemptive-History
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(This is a re-post from 2011. The title and context have been changed.) (Editorial update July 2018) The Pharisees employed a literalis...
26 October 2014
Christian Schools in Britain, Social Crisis and the Larger Issues at Stake
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There are stories beginning to circulate in Christian circles of a private Christian school in the United Kingdom which is risking the loss ...
24 October 2014
My Friday Trip to Amishland
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I spent some time with the Amish this afternoon. I had to make a trip out to purchase some rough-cut lumber. There are several groups in the...
15 October 2014
Middle Class Aspirations, Globalisation, Huntington's Clash and the Acculturated Church
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkGZHxxT4g These types of videos always remind me of Huntington's Clash of Civilizations thesis. Hun...
09 October 2014
China, Christians, Second-Class Citizenship and Political Agitation
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Woe and lamentation. Numerous reports have come out that there are many Christians involved in and in some cases leading the protests in ...
04 October 2014
Middle Class Values and the American Church
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I've worked for and mingled within upper class circles at many points in my life. The funny thing about the wealthier class is that the...
02 October 2014
Idelette de Bure and Legitimate Marriage
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Idelette de Bure was an Anabaptist who married John Calvin. On more than one occasion I've heard Calvin praised for his graciousness an...
29 September 2014
The Failure of the Academy: Politicization of Statistics and Definitions (Part 2 of 2)
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We've reached a point where we have to start thinking a bit differently about money and how we live. I'm speaking to society as a wh...
The Failure of the Academy: Politicization of Statistics and Definitions (Part 1 of 2)
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Don't trust the metrics. Statistics can be and often are manipulated. The Clinton era economic boom of the 1990s was a time of prosper...
27 September 2014
Five Centuries of Calvin (Part 2 of 2)
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Interestingly the Reformation largely failed to achieve the goal of liberating the church from the state. On the continent of Europe, the ...
Five Centuries of Calvin (Part 1 of 2)
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Recently I've been listening to some seminary lectures from 2009. This was a big year for Reformed people because it was the 500 th a...
13 September 2014
Inbox: Denomination Clarification
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(Answering Questions #23) Q. Regarding your post on Denominations- If the unity is found in the Spirit, how are denominations a hindrance...
31 August 2014
Our Response to the Federal Reserve and the World System in General (3/3)
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If it's all just a game, a big scam, then shouldn't we work to beat the system and lessen our tax burden? We certainly don't w...
Our Response to the Federal Reserve and the World System in General (2/3)
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When I work for financial advisors and investors I like to get them talking. It's not hard to do. I do the same when I'm with bank...
Our Response to the Federal Reserve and the World System in General (1/3)
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Not long ago I was having a conversation someone and the topic of money and business came up. It was an aside to a larger discussion, but we...
22 August 2014
Sabbatarian Hermeneutics and Some Resulting Misapplications
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I've mentioned it before but I wish to briefly revisit the question of the Sabbath and the mandate regarding six days of labour. There ...
16 August 2014
Allegiance to Power
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Allegiance to an idea or allegiance to a brand, take your pick. These seem to be the options that are given to us in American society. Th...
14 August 2014
The Denomination Dilemma and Solution
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Many lament the state of divided Christendom. Not infrequently are we reminded of the thousands of denominations which exist today. It i...
13 August 2014
The Battle over Quiet Time
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For many Christians 'Quiet Time' is an important part of their spirituality. They take some time out of every day to read their Bib...
12 August 2014
DeMint's Dream and Reality
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Localism, Power and the Technological Society in an Age of Total War Some time ago I listened to an interview with former senator Jim DeM...
27 June 2014
Apostasy and Nuance in Popular Christian Fantasy
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I recall when I was younger many Christians were critical of CS Lewis' Narnia due to perceived pagan elements and intrusions. Recently ...
25 June 2014
Temporal Conditionality and Typology vis-à-vis Eternal Reality
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We read in 1 Kings 2.4 'If your sons take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,...
15 April 2014
Mohler's Moral Logic
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Speaking of Moral Logic let us consider another of Mohler's moral judgments. Why Mohler? Well, he's considered a respected leading f...
12 April 2014
Dispensationalism, Daniel's Vision of the Ten Toes and Biblical Numerology
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In retrospect it's fascinating to me that while I was growing up as a Dispensationalist during the Cold War one of the great fears was ...
08 April 2014
Considering Presidential Strengths and Weaknesses Through the Lens of Worldly Wisdom
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Over the past few weeks I've received numerous emails and 'shares' related to the 'weakness' of Obama especially vis-a-v...
07 April 2014
The Poverty of Hyper-Literalism
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In the recent piece on the Gates of Hell I mentioned how the Postmillennial hermeneutic struggles with the imagery of the gates and how they...
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